[XeTeX] XeTeX + fontspec + sazanami = no output (?)

[Jonathan Kew]

On 11 Jan 2008, at 1:05 pm, Wilfred van Rooijen wrote:

>
> rooijen at love206a-rooijen ~ $ xetex -version
> XeTeX 3.141592-0.996 (Web2C 7.5.6)
> kpathsea version 3.5.6
> Copyright 2007 SIL International.
> Kpathsea is copyright 2007 Karl Berry and Olaf Weber.
> There is NO warranty.  Redistribution of this software
> is
> covered by the terms of both the XeTeX copyright and
> the Lesser GNU General Public License.
> For more information about these matters, see the file
> named COPYING and the XeTeX source.
> Primary author of XeTeX: Jonathan Kew.
> Kpathsea written by Karl Berry, Olaf Weber, and
> others.
>
> Compiled with ICU version 3.4 [with modifications for
> XeTeX]
> Compiled with zlib version 1.2.3; using 1.2.3
> Compiled with FreeType2 version 2.2.1; using 2.2.1
> Compiled with fontconfig version 2.2.1; using 2.4.2
> Compiled with libpng version 1.2.15; using 1.2.15
> Compiled with xpdf version 3.01
>
> I've installed xetex as part of texlive 2007. As you
> can see xetex was compiled with a different fontconfig
> than is provided on my system.

That's OK -- it's only the runtime version on your system that  
matters. And I think 2.4.2 should be new enough.

> I can try to install
> the latest xetex from source.

I don't think that will make any difference. This is a failure in  
xdvipdfmx rather than xetex itself. You could try building the latest  
xdvipdfmx from source, but the configure and build process is a bit  
messy/tricky if it's not part of a complete texlive build -- it  
generally involves messing with configure options and CFLAGS/LDFLAGS  
variables.

To get a little more clue about the failure, you can try running  
xetex and xdvipdfmx separately, with some additional terminal output:

     xelatex -no-pdf testfile.tex
         (runs xetex to create a .xdv file; this will succeed, I  
believe)

     xdvipdfmx -E -vv testfile.xdv
         (runs xdvipdfmx with "verbose" messages, which may indicate  
what is failing)

JK