On Oct 20, 2006, at 10:35 AM, Alain Matthes wrote:
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 ?
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