[XeTeX] LaTeX features in XeTeX
Jonathan Kew
jonathan_kew at sil.org
Mon Jan 22 20:27:57 CET 2007
On 22 Jan 2007, at 7:13 pm, William Adams wrote:
> On Jan 22, 2007, at 1:05 PM, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
>
>> So is xelatex another mode of xetex, or another programme I am
>> missing?
>
> xelatex is xetex after loading the LaTeX macro package / format. This
> is a pretty basic concept which should be explained by any LaTeX
> introduction/tutorial.
>
> The build-script should create this format....
I'm not sure if that's necessarily the case. But if you look in the
existing installation scripts, you should find that they add entries
for the "xetex" and "xelatex" formats to fmtutil's configuration file
(fmtutil.cnf). Then -- assuming the xetex input files are in the
texmf tree where they will be found -- you can use
fmtutil --byfmt xelatex
to create the xelatex.fmt file. The xelatex "program" would just be a
symlink to xetex; like other Web2C-based TeX programs, it loads a
format file based on the name used to invoke the executable.
If you look at the "rebuild-formats" script from the XeTeX source
repository, this may give you some pointers. I guess the whole TeX
configuration setup may be a bit different in Debian Etch from that
used in older teTeX systems or an off-the-shelf TeX Live, so I don't
know the precise steps needed to put all the pieces together, or
whether the existing scripts would work as-is, but I hope this at
least gives some clues....
JK
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