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

[Jonathan Kew]

On 14 Aug 2007, at 3:49 pm, Kate Hayes wrote:

> I'm still out of luck. Here's how my file looks now:
>
>> *input 0000MERMplayotr.tex
>> *input 0000MERMplaymac.tex
>> *input epsf.tex
>> *def\setcurrenttab{}
>>
>> *hone{1}{Testing}
>>
>> Testing testing.
>>
>> *XeTeXpdffile FILENAME.pdf
>>
>> *bye
>
> Asterisk = backslash
>

Without seeing your various macro files, it's hard to know what's  
really going on here. Do you have a file named FILENAME.pdf in the  
current directory? (I'd normally put quotes around the name, though I  
don't think that should be necessary if it doesn't have spaces etc.)

The console output:

> It compiles but without graphics. Here’s the console text:
>
>> This is XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996 (Web2C 7.5.6)
>>  %&-line parsing enabled.
>> entering extended mode
>> (./000GraphicsTest.tex (./0000MERMplayotr.tex) (./ 
>> 0000MERMplaymac.tex)
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/generic/epsf/epsf.tex
>> This is `epsf.tex' v2.7.3 <23 July 2005>
>> )

(BTW, I don't see any reason to include epsf.tex in a xetex document.)

>> Underfull \vbox (badness 10000) has occurred while \output is active
>> Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) has occurred while \output is active
>> \bigbookman 0[]
>>
>> Overfull \vbox (13.8642pt too high) has occurred while \output is  
>> active
>> Overfull \vbox (265.29541pt too high) has occurred while \output  
>> is active
>> Overfull \vbox (24.20007pt too high) has occurred while \output is  
>> active

...seems to suggest there's something fairly big on your page.... is  
your graphic big enough that it's falling off the bottom of the page?  
(Does it have lots of white space above it?) PDF inclusion normally  
works fine, so I'm not sure why it would fail for you.

JK

>> [2] )
>> (see the transcript file for additional information)
>> Output written on 000GraphicsTest.pdf (1 page).
>> Transcript written on 000GraphicsTest.log.
>
> --Kate
>
>
>
> 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 can’t 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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