[XeTeX] Using XeTeX

[Jonathan Kew]

On 15 Feb 2009, at 22:24, rm2kpro at gmail.com wrote:

> Hello.
> I’m running Windows XP (32-bit) and I installed the MikTeX  
> distribution.
> I looked for
> an editor which supports Unicode and I chose WinShell.
> I can perfectly compile documents using pdflatex, but xelatex doesn’t
> want to work for
> me. I defined a ‘user program’ in WinShell, entered the path for  
> xelatex
> and I put the
> following in the command line: ‘-src-specials -interaction=nonstopmode
> “%s.tex”’.

Does your command line literally have “curly quotes” around the  
filename part? ......

>
> When I run it, it gives this output:
>
> This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.997 (MiKTeX 2.7)
> entering extended mode
> LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
> Babel <v3.8j> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang,
> nohyphenation, ge
> rman, ngerman, french, loaded.
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> <*> ^^Ótest
> .tex^^Ô

..... because that would be a problem, I think, and it looks like  
there are some strange non-ASCII characters here. Use standard "ASCII  
quotes" for quoting file names/paths in command lines.


JK