[XeTeX] How to make some pdf with xetex from commandline?

[Wilfred van Rooijen]

OK, In gedit, go to:

Edit -> Preferences -> Plugins -> select latex plugin -> Configure Plugin

Then:

Select Tools tab -> click 'New' to make a new profile.

For the commands, I simply use (see attached screenshot)

xelatex "$filename"
gnome-open "$shortname.pdf"

Normally the gedit plugin uses rubber to do the compilation, which is convenient because it automatically checks whether to run bibtex, makeIndex etc. I've checked the rubber manual and it seems that the present version (rubber 1.1 on my machine) only uses pdf(la)tex to make pdfs. I guess it could be possible to add xelatex to rubber, but I haven't bothered. I only make relatively simple documents with xelatex.

Cheerio,
Wilfred van Rooijen


--- On Sun, 29/11/09, Gareth Hughes <garzohugo at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Gareth Hughes <garzohugo at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] How to make some pdf with xetex from commandline?
> To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
> Date: Sunday, 29 November, 2009, 11:04 AM
> Wilfred van Rooijen wrote:
> > 
> > I don't know Kile, but I use gedit + latex plugin,
> which allows to
> > set up customized compilation chains, so I made my own
> setup with a
> > special short-cut for xelatex. I think the same is
> possible in any
> > other "tex-capable" editor.
> > 
> 
> Wilfred, I too am using gedit. I've got the LaTeX plugin
> but never got
> around to customising it to work with XeTeX. Would you
> kindly post your
> configuration so that I don't have to reinvent the wheel?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gareth.
>


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