[XeTeX] Using Xetex on GNU/linux.

[Wilfred van Rooijen]

Hi,

What message is echoed to the screen if you just enter

[name at host ~]> xetex

If 'TeX markup is not recognized', then there are a couple of possibilities:

- the sample.tex is not valid tex, but maybe latex or so
- the xetex executable uses a wrong format file, or none at all
- the xetex executable is not xetex :-))

Please post a log file of a "hit and miss" run, if you can.

Wilfred

--- On Thu, 7/1/10, Andrew Moschou <andmos at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Andrew Moschou <andmos at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Using Xetex on GNU/linux.
> To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
> Date: Thursday, 7 January, 2010, 1:36 PM
> 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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