Dear Philip, > Is there any way (perhaps through a command-line option to XeTeX) > that one could obtain those most usedful diagnostics using XeTeX > in "standard" mode xetex -output-driver="xdvipdfmx -E" file.tex or xetex -output-driver="xdvipdfmx -v -E" file.tex (verbose) Default is "xdvipdfmx -q -E" (quiet). Best, Akira