[TxMt] Re: xelatex functionality suddenly not working

[Kieran Healy]

I found the source of the problem: the shell variable  
$TM_LATEX_COMPILER had been set to mklatex.pl, and this doesn't seem  
to be compatible with xelatex. Switching it off fixed things.

Kieran

On Nov 20, 2006, at 10:51 AM, Kieran Healy wrote:

> Hi -
>
> Textmate's (or the Latex bundle's) ability to tell when to use  
> xelatex instead of pdflatex has stopped working for me. Documents  
> that compiled quite happily yesterday won't do so today. I checked  
> in the Latex bundle's "Typeset and View" command to see whether  
> anything had changed, but the relevant lines are still there:
>
>> # Set up TeX compiler, fallback to xelatex if document indicates it,
>> if grep -Esq '\\usepackage{.*(xunicode|fontspec)|program=xelatex'  
>> "$M"
>> 	then DEF_TEX=xelatex
>
> My xelatex documents all have \usepackage{xunicode} and \usepackage 
> {fontspec} in them, so this should work just fine, and has been  
> working fine. But it doesn't now. Instead Textmate tries to run  
> pdflatex on the document, resulting in a failure.
>
> The only thing that's changed is that this morning I updated the  
> Latex bundle and the Support folder from the  subversion  
> repository. Has something changed in there that would cause this  
> problem?
>
> Best,
>
> Kieran