[XeTeX] Emulating font extension

[Jonathan Kew]

On 18 Jun 2009, at 15:31, Vadim Radionov wrote:

> It's Ubuntu hardy haron (2.6.24-16-generic).  It has rather old .996
> xetex with texlive-2007, so I built it from repository today.
>
> Another test on my installation shows that being enclosed in \fbox,
> the enormously extended text protrudes to the right outside the box,
> while the stretched one leaves some white space on the right.
>

Aha. I suspect you've only built and installed a new xetex, but not  
the corresponding xdvipdfmx.

JK