[XeTeX] Problem updating TeXLive in Windows

[John Was]

Dear Joachim



Thanks for the encouragement.  I'll try to make time to experiment over the 
next few days, but I am finding some very odd things in the TeXLive 2008 
distribution (in the pure 'out-of-the-box' state after installation from the 
DVD).  The worst so far is that something like:



\font \umirnine = 
[d:/texfiles/outlfont/MinionPro-Regular]:+onum:mapping=tex-text:letterspace=1.5 
at 9pt



no longer gives me tex-text mapping (so, for example, when I type --- I get 
three hyphens, not an em-dash, and when I type ` and ' I get these 
characters and not proper quotation marks).  I don't remember having to do 
anything special with the 2007 distribution but I guess I'll just have to 
roll my sleeves up and investigate what's going on.  I always seem to be 
*fighting* TeX whenever I install it (which is why for a lot of my work I'm 
still using a 1995 EmTeX distribution which behaves perfectly and migrates 
from one computer to another just by copying over the whole directory).



Best





John






----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Joachim Trinkwitz" <jtr at uni-bonn.de>

To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>

Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 5:08 PM

Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Problem updating TeXLive in Windows



Am 17.12.2008 um 08:52 schrieb John Was:

> If this doesn't work I'll content myself with the distribution on
> the disc
> and wait for next year's update - or else buy a Mac if they come
> down to
> about £5 in the January sales.


Of course changing from a PC to a Mac is always a great idea ;^) , but
unfortunately your problem wouldn't go away, because the MacTeX
distribution has the same tlmgr and I've encountered the same problem
you described.

But don't worry, once you come over the initial bug in the update
mechanism (just follow Peter's advices), tlmgr will work flawlessly.

Joachim

-- 
Dr. Joachim Trinkwitz     E-Mail: jtr at uni-bonn.de
Institut für Germanistik, Tel.: 0228-737565
Vergleichende Literatur-  Fax: 0228-737479
und Kulturwissenschaft    www.germanistik.uni-bonn.de
der Universität Bonn      53012 Bonn


_______________________________________________
XeTeX mailing list
postmaster at tug.org
http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex