[TxMt] How to use XeLaTeX

[Alain Matthes]

hello:)


In Typeset & View (PDF) i don't understand that :

# Set up TeX compiler, fallback to xelatex if document indicates it
if grep -Esq '\\usepackage{.*(xunicode|fontspec)|program=xelatex' "$M"
then DEF_TEX=xelatex
else DEF_TEX=pdflatex

What is the exact syntax to use XeLaTeX ?

Thanks

Greetings Alain

[Alan Schussman]

Post by Alain Matthes
hello:)
# Set up TeX compiler, fallback to xelatex if document indicates it
if grep -Esq '\\usepackage{.*(xunicode|fontspec)|program=xelatex' "$M"
then DEF_TEX=xelatex
else DEF_TEX=pdflatex
What is the exact syntax to use XeLaTeX ?

There are a number of ways to indicate that a document should be
typeset with xelatex instead of pdflatex, and that grep is meant to
pick up the methods that I have seen in various places. Both the
xunicode and fontspec[1] packages depend on xelatex, so calling on
them (\usepackage{fontspec}) in your preamble should set DEF_TEX to
xelatex. This is what I use to set it, because all my xetex documents
make use of fontspec for easy font manipulation. But, some documents
that I've seen have a line like the following:

%&program=xelatex

So the grep watches for that, as well.

-Alan

[1] http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/fontspec.html