[XeTeX] Using Xetex on GNU/linux.

[Andrew Moschou]

What if you use the 'xelatex' command instead of 'xetex'?


2010/1/7 Chris Jones <cjns1989 at gmail.com>

> I have been using xetex for a few months as part of the asciidoc/a2x
> tool chain. The tool chain invokes dblatex to generate pdf's from xml
> Docbook. Per its files, dblatex uses xetex as its 'backend driver'.
>
> This gives very good results, especially with multi-byte content in a
> UTF-8 encoding.
>
> I noticed that there was a 'xetex' command on this GNU/linux system,
> that invokes an ELF executable located in /usr/bin/.
>
> I tried the following against some latex documents that compile without
> errors when I use the 'latex' command:
>
> | $ xetex sample.tex
>
> As far as I can tell some TeX markup is not recognized, but after
> hitting a few <Enter> in succession, a valid sample.pdf is generated,
> containing a mix of the original text interspersed with my unrecognized
> TeX markup.
>
> Is there a quick start document anywhere that might help me get this to
> work in a GNU/linux context, or am I altogether barking the wrong tree?
>
> Thanks,
>
> CJ
>
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