[OS X TeX] Linotype Palatino

[Robert Spence]

Dear Michael,

On 07 Jun 2007, at 01:32 , Michael Kubovy wrote:

> I've never even tried XeLaTeX. I would appreciate a guide for the  
> perplexed.

... will you settle for a guide _by_ one of the perplexed?

First:
Do you have any fancy stuff in your document, e.g. things done with  
pstricks, or phonetic symbols, etc.?

If not, why not just try the following as the basis of your preamble:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xunicode,fontspec}
\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
\setmainfont{Palatino}

If your TeX distribution is a fairly recent one, then you probably  
already have everything you need for a XeLaTeX run.  Either check to  
see whether there's an appropriate item on the pulldown typesetting  
menu of TeXShop, or else just open the Terminal and do
cd <path_to_my_grant_application_directory>
then
xelatex '-output-driver=xdvipdfmx -q -E'  
<my_grant_application_tex_sourcefile>

It should "just work".  If it doesn't, you can get more help either  
on this list or on the XeTeX list (xetex at tug.org).

Basically, if your source file compiles with LaTeX, then it should  
also compile with XeLaTeX.

Good luck!
-- Rob Spence
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Dr. Robert Spence
Applied Linguistics
Saarland University
Germany


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