[OS X TeX] Newbie on TeXShop with PlainTeX / XeTeX

[Kate Hayes]

Thank you Jonathan! This makes sense.


On 8/13/07 2:04 PM, "Jonathan Kew" <jonathan_kew at sil.org> wrote:

> On 13 Aug 2007, at 9:23 pm, Kate Hayes wrote:
> 
>> I'm used to PlainTeX with Textures, and have recently installed
>> TeXShop et al. I finally got a simple test file to compile using:
>> 
>>>  *input epsf.tex
>>> 
>>>  Testing.
>>> 
>>>  *epsfbox{graphic filename}
>>> 
>>>  *bye
>> 
>> (the asterisks stand for backslashes)
>> 
>> However, when I input an output routine and macro file with this
>> method, it stops at the first font def in my output routine file
>>  and can¹t find the font.
> 
> It sounds like you're using font names that were known to Textures,
> but not to a more "generic" TeX implementation. Mac OS fonts, perhaps?
> 
>> 
>>  So I found out that if I used XeTeX instead of Plain TeX, the text
>> printed, but then the graphic command was ignored.
> 
> XeTeX doesn't support EPS graphics, as its output path does not
> involve a PostScript stage. If you convert your EPS graphic to PDF
> (e.g., by opening it with Preview), you can then include that using
> \XeTeXpdffile "graphic filename" in the document. (Or more likely, a
> macro that encapsulates this.)
> 
> JK
> 
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