[XeTeX] Mathspec and babel make xelatex hang

Herbert Schulz herbs at wideopenwest.com
Thu May 13 14:26:11 CEST 2010


On May 12, 2010, at 10:17 PM, Andrew Moschou wrote:

> I believe the problem is with babel: Try replacing "ngerman" with for
> example "english" and you'll find it works.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 
> On 13 May 2010 00:48, Tobias Schoel <liesdiedatei at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> ****
>> 
>> \documentclass{article}
>> 
>> \usepackage{xunicode}
>> \usepackage[quiet]{mathspec}
>> \usepackage{xltxtra}
>> 
>> \setallmainfonts[Mapping=tex-text]{Linux Libertine O}
>> 
>> \usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
>> 
>> \begin{document}
>> 2ab \(2ab\beta\)
>> 
>> 
>> \end{document}
>> 
>> ****
>> 
>> Running this throug xelatex makes it hang. Commenting out
>>  \setallmainfonts[Mapping=tex-text]{Linux Libertine O}
>> or
>>  \usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
>> makes it work with the desired result.
>> 
>> ciao
>> 
>> Toscho
>> 

Howdy,

I thought that you should be using the polyglossia package rather than the babel package with xelatex. 

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)






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