[OS X TeX] latex and xelatex

[R. Vijay Krishna]

On Mar 16, 2010, at 8:48 PM, Alan Munn wrote:

>> Have you tried the package ``ifxetex''?  It solves all my portability problems.  Simple usage below. 
> 
> Thanks.  Yes, I'm aware of this possibility.  For the moment, it's not really worth my while.  (BTW, in your sample script code wouldn't you also want to load some UTF-8 compatibility packages in the latex part?)

Yes, of course.  I merely posted the simplest code that works on my Windows machine at work (that doesn't have all the fonts available on the Mac) with pdflatex, but runs xelatex without any further change in code.

Vijay