<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 16, 2010, at 2:59 PM, R. Vijay Krishna wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>On Mar 16, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Alan Munn wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">In practice, then, a xetex document created on on system will not necessarily be portable to another system; in regular latex this is rarely a problem. (Although perhaps only due to the fact that adding new fonts to a TeX distribution is such a PITA that most people just put up with the few that are available.)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">For this reason, I haven't made a full switch to xetex, although I use it for certain things where I want a more interesting font selection. (And distributing source is not a problem.)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Alan<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br><br>Have you tried the package ``ifxetex''? It solves all my portability problems. Simple usage below. <br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>Thanks. Yes, I'm aware of this possibility. For the moment, it's not really worth my while. (BTW, in your sample script code wouldn't you also want to load some UTF-8 compatibility packages in the latex part?)<div><br></div><div>Alan</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>-- </div><div>Alan Munn</div><div><a href="mailto:amunn@gmx.com">amunn@gmx.com</a></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>