[XeTeX] Using Xetex on GNU/linux.

[Chris Jones]

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 01:26:40AM EST, Wilfred van Rooijen wrote:
> 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 :-))

That seems to work ok.

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

Attaching the log.

Actually its content explains how the 'é' 'á' and 'ó' mentioned in my
earlier post vanished. If I'm correct I need to use the fontspec package
and use a different font than the default.

Thanks,

CJ
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This is XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996-patch2 (Web2C 7.5.6) (format=xetex 2009.12.13)  7 JAN 2010 08:21
entering extended mode
 %&-line parsing enabled.
**accent10.tex
(./accent10.tex
! Undefined control sequence.
l.1 \documentclass
                  [12pt,twoside,letterpaper]{letter}
? 
! Undefined control sequence.
l.2 \usepackage
               [frenchb]{babel}
? 
! Undefined control sequence.
l.3 \usepackage
               {mathptmx}
? 
! Undefined control sequence.
l.4 \begin
          {document}
? 
Missing character: There is no é in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no à in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no é in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no à in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no è in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no é in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no é in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no é in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no é in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no é in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no é in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no é in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no é in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no à in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no é in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no é in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no é in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no ê in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no à in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no é in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no ê in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no ? in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no é in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no é in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no ? in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no û in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no é in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no ç in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no ê in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no î in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no é in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no é in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no é in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no é in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no é in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no ù in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no é in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no é in font cmr10!
Missing character: There is no é in font cmr10!
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Output written on accent10.pdf (1 page).