[XeTeX] A strange error

Michaël Cadilhac michael at cadilhac.name
Tue Nov 13 05:55:36 CET 2012


On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:35 PM, V. Sasi Kumar <sasi.fsf at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have just started using XeTeX and am still to get used to debugging
> source files. I just tried a test file containing two languages,English
> and Malayalam and got the strange error message:
>
> (./sample.tex
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> l.1 \documentclass
>                   [a4paper,10pt]{article}
> ?
>
> I understand that \documentclass is a genuine tex command. And I have
> compiled latex and xetex files without problem earlier. Don't understand
> why this error has suddenly appeared. Since this is the first line in
> the document, it cannot be due to anything else in the document.

You are probably running xetex instead of xelatex.

Cheers,
M.


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