[OS X TeX] Re: using xeTex

[Manuel Souto Pico]

Thank you very much, Jonathan and Peter!

See my reply below...

2007/2/12, Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew at sil.org>:
> On 12 Feb 2007, at 8:37 am, Manuel Souto Pico wrote:
>
> > 1. I can't use other fonts, such as palatino, because the result is a
> > very poorly typed sans-serif text.
>
> I suspect you tried to use a palatino package that relies on virtual
> fonts, which are not supported in xetex with xdv2pdf. There will be
> error messages related to this in the texshop console.
>
> It's possible to use such packages with the xdvipdfmx driver instead
> of xdv2pdf (see the list archives), but in general it makes more
> sense to use Unicode fonts directly rather than old-style virtual
> fonts (at least for normal text).
>
> >
> > 2. I can't use accents (such as for words in Romanic languages: á é
> > í ó ú).
> >
> > This is my document:
> >
> > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> > %!TEX TS-program = xelatex
> > %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
> > \documentclass[a4paper,10pt,oneside]{book}
> > \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}    % more utf-8
>
> Don't use inputenc, it gets in the way of xetex's native Unicode
> support.
>
> > \usepackage[spanish,catalan,british]{babel}
> > \usepackage[OT2,OT1,T1]{fontenc}
>
> Don't use fontenc, use Unicode fonts instead. The easiest way is via
> the fontspec package.
>
> >
> > \begin{document}
> >
> > no tengo sarampión
> >
> > \end{document}
>
> Putting this together, here's a version of your file that should work
> better:
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> %!TEX TS-program = xelatex
> %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
> \documentclass[a4paper,10pt,oneside]{book}
> \usepackage[spanish,catalan,british]{babel}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \setmainfont{Palatino} % assuming you have Palatino installed in your

It seems I don't have neither Palatino nor Times installed in my Fonts
folder. This is not that important, so I'll leave it for later.

However, I still have that problem about accents:

> Fonts folder
>
> \begin{document}
>
> no tengo sarampión

Instead of this my output is "no tengo sarampin".

I've used a very simple document, with just the lines you've sent.

Any further ideas?

Maybe I should use Chinese transliteration instead of Kanji...

Thank you very much.
Regards, Manuel

>
> \end{document}
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> JK
>
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