[XeTeX] Four Initial - General Problems with files

[Jonathan Kew]

On 26 Apr 2008, at 3:42 am, snvv wrote:

> Hello
> I tried the %%!TEX TS-program = latex in the first line but the  
> file is not
> compiled with latex.
>
> Then I compiled with xelatex -no-pdf <file_name.tex>. In this case  
> it creates
> a file_name.xdv file but in my distribution there is no xdv2pdf  
> "program" to
> convert it to PDF.

xdv2pdf is only for Mac OS X; on Linux, use xdvipdfmx. But that's  
what xetex uses automatically anyhow, so separating the two stages  
won't make any difference to the results (it may sometimes help in  
tracking down problems, though).

JK