[tex-live] Polyglossia breaks XeLaTeX

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Sat Sep 1 18:16:43 CEST 2012


2012/9/1 Haines Brown <haines at histomat.net>:
> On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 03:39:20PM +0100, Robin Fairbairns wrote:
>> the supplied evidence shows that your document definitely breaks under
>> pdflatex, but then polyglossia requires xetex, so it's no surprise.
>>
>> what happens if you compile with xelatex? -- an example document would
>> be good.
>>
>> robin
>
> Sorry I wasn't clearer: I _am_ compiling with xelatex. That's why I
> couldn't make head or tail of the error message which appears to
> assume otherwise. Here is a sample preamble:
>
No, the log file clearly says that pdflatex was used in your case.
Look at the first two lines of the log.

>   %!TEX TS-program = xetex
>   %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
>
>   \documentclass[12pt,titlepage]{article}
>   \usepackage{xltxtra}
>   \usepackage{xunicode,fontspec}
>
>   % \usepackage(csquotes} % conflicts with polyglossia
>   % \usepacage{fullpage} % conflicts with polyglossia
>   % \usepackage[backend=biber,style=authoryear,sorting=nyt]{biblatex} %
>                        % conflits with polyglossia.
>
>   \usepackage{polyglossia}
>   \usepackage{xeCJK}                % fontspec for CJK commands
>   \newfontfamily\Chinese{AR PL KaitiM GB}
>   \setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX,Mapping=tex-text]{Linux Libertine O}
>   \begin{document}
>   ...
>
>
> If I omit polyglosia, all other packages can be included and run fine.
> If I include polyglossia, those packages marked as conflict can't be
> included.
>
> Haines



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