[OS X TeX] Gentium help

[Mohinish]

Hi,
thanks for the clarification.
I'll try to move to xetex then.

the good thing is that the most vital package and the most likely to  
have been troublesome, qtree, has a new improved version with both  
DVI/PS and PDF, hallelujah!

although I suspect that being cowardly, I'll end up sticking with the  
current settings till I get my PhD :)

best
Mohinish



On 2 Sep 2006, at 6:38 PM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 2 sept. 06 à 18:06, Mohinish a écrit :
>
>> I did try the XeTeX a bit, but probably because my TeXShop is an  
>> older version and/or because I have so many other (some hacky)  
>> packages, it kept throwing errors.
>
> This most probably comes from your using packages (for example  
> beamer) which rely on either dvips, pdfTeX or dvipdfm to do their  
> job. For well-written packages, namely packages which call external  
> driver-specific definition files, the situation has mostly been  
> fixed already: this is for example the case with graphics/graphicx  
> and color, for which Ross Moore has provided a xetex.def. For other  
> packages, such as beamer, which include hard-coded switches for  
> dvips, pdfTeX and dvipdfm only, the situation is gradually getting  
> better.
>
> Specifically, the most recent versions of XeTeX (like the current  
> 0.995 rev. D at the time of this writing), which are now cross- 
> platform (Mac OS X/Windows/Linux), can work on the Mac with either  
> the original extended DVI processor xdv2pdf (called implicitly at  
> the end of each XeTeX run), or with xdvipdfmx an extended version  
> of dvipdfmx. This means that, in case you choose to use xdvipdfmx  
> instead of xdv2pdf, then you can use packages which include dvipdfm  
> support (like beamer) by calling them with the option [dvipdfm].
>
> How to select xdvipdfmx on the Mac? By invoking XeTeX in the form:
>
> 	xetex -output-driver='xdvipdfmx -q -E'
> 	xelatex -output-driver='xdvipdfmx -q -E'
>
> This can probably be automated by creating a dedicated TeXShop engine.
>
> There is a drawback to this appproach, though: while xdv2pdf can  
> use any font known to OS X, xdvipdfmx can only use TrueType and  
> OpenType fonts. This shouldn't affect Gentium.
>
> Another reason for using XeTeX with Gentium: they both originate  
> from SIL International, and in particular Jonathan Kew, the  
> developer of XeTeX, knows Gentium (as well as Charis SIl and Doulos  
> SIL) very well.
>
> This type of question is generally answered very rapidly on the  
> XeTeX mailing list <http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex>.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
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