Re: [AUCTeX-devel] XeTeX

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 06.06.2006 um 20:40 schrieb David Kastrup:

> Peter Dyballa <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Xe(La)TeX is now available on BSD systems, Linux, Solaris, and MS
> > Windows. I think it's high time now to add a Xe(La)TeX entry to the
> > commands menu.
>
> Why would it not be installed as "tex" and "latex" ?

Because it's 100% Unicode through and through (no input encoding),  
still a bit experimental, only producing .xdv files of a DVI like  
contents and using the also experimental xdvipdfmx on non-Mac systems  
and by default xdv2pdf on Mac OS X (could be xdvipdfmx, too) and  
finally it's not part of any TeX distribution nor is it compatible to  
all (La)TeX packages -- particularly Babel and hyphenation are problems!

And it's not yet on CTAN. Only the fontspec package from Will  
Robertson is available there.

AUCTeX is quite clever, so it can check whether there are Xe(La)TeX  
formats (kpsewhich -format=fmt xelatex) or binaries (which xetex  
xelatex) on the system, and when there are, the Command menu is  
augmented.


These are header lines from a Mac OS X application, TeXShop, which is  
kind of a TeX IDE, by which a file's encoding and the 'engine' to  
typeset the file with, are marked:

        %!TEX TS-program = xelatex
        %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode

Right now it seems that TeXShop is completely inflexible (and might  
stay so) and will not recognize any of these lines if a GNU Emacs  
special as in -*- mode: LaTeX; coding: utf-8; -*- is added to  
them ... but AUCTeX could make profit from.

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  Pete

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