Talk:XeTeX - Old Content

Did all that, thanks. Doesn't quite get me there, though. It sounds really good, because I don't typeset math, but fonts are always a problem with context in my experience, and having easy access to the Mac fonts would be excellent.

I have installed TeXLive from the CD-ROM. Onto this I installed the latest (dec 04) update of context. I downloaded the XeTeX package and ran the installer from that. Then followed the steps on this page, but when I run texexec --make -xtx en I get

! I can't read xetex.pool; bad path?

Of course, it does exist, at /usr/local/teTeX/texmf.local/web2c/xetex.pool

One difference I notice is that I have /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/context/config/texexec.ini (no textmf.local inside share/texmf). Anyone come across that so that the page can be updated with a workaround? It does amaze me that, with directory structure standardised and utilities to find files, paths seem to be a real problem with TeX. Something has not been thought through properly there. Alun ap Rhisiart.

Hi. I'm glad you like my efforts so far. I used to use TeXLive, and switched over to gwTeX because of these same problems with installing XeTeX. I encourage you to join the list at http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex so we can work out this problem with a larger audience/pool of experts. --Adam 12:49, 6 Jan 2005 (CET)

-translate-file=natural.tcx

May I remove the notice about removing -translate-file=natural.tcx? It seems that XeTeX already knows that it has to be ignored. --Mojca 20:11, 3 May 2006 (CEST)

Basic Installation

you need to check that syst-xtx.tex(/texmf.local/tex/context/base/) contained the following lines

seems obsolete to me as well. May this be removed/replaced with something like "make sure that you have the latest ConTeXt"? --Mojca