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kinleyd

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Registered: 2012-09-21

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[Solved] Status of XeTeX and system font support for TeX

I'm trying to find out how to install XeTeX on Arch Linux but have only come across very old threads on the Arch BBS. Has XeTeX been abandoned or have its functions been included somewhere in texlive? Or is there another way to make system fonts accessible to TeX in Emacs? This is essentially what I'd like to do - have my Linux system fonts accessible in TeX. I would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks.

Last edited by kinleyd (2014-11-10 18:06:12)

FreeTheBee

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Registered: 2011-01-02

Posts: 125

Re: [Solved] Status of XeTeX and system font support for TeX

XeTeX is bundled with TeX Live.

kinleyd

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From: Bhutan

Registered: 2012-09-21

Posts: 142

Re: [Solved] Status of XeTeX and system font support for TeX

@FreeTheBee, thank you. I just found that out on the G+ Arch Linux community as well. I was basically blindsided looking for a separate XeTex package - never realized I already had it with the texlive-bin package.

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

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Re: [Solved] Status of XeTeX and system font support for TeX

@FreeTheBee, thank you. I just found that out on the G+ Arch Linux community as well. I was basically blindsided looking for a separate XeTex package - never realized I already had it with the texlive-bin package.

If you can't find a package, you can use pkgfile to search for the name of an (executable) file like xelatex or xetex.

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Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: [Solved] Status of XeTeX and system font support for TeX

$ pkgfile pkgfile
bash: pkgfile: command not found

Oh the irony!

(this was of course made up - having [extra]/pkgfile installed is a no-brainer to me)

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kinleyd

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From: Bhutan

Registered: 2012-09-21

Posts: 142

Re: [Solved] Status of XeTeX and system font support for TeX

Thanks @progandy, and lol @Trilby.

Delighted to find LuaTeX also packaged with texlive. Now trying to find my way around both XeTex and LuaTeX - all for the love of a few tt and ot fonts!

tuxador

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From: algeria

Registered: 2010-07-08

Posts: 45

Re: [Solved] Status of XeTeX and system font support for TeX

lol i'm also a newbie in LaTeX and i' proud of my very first curriculum vitae writen with "modern cv" !
looking into more beamer goodies.
Sorry for the offtopic

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kinleyd

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From: Bhutan

Registered: 2012-09-21

Posts: 142

Re: [Solved] Status of XeTeX and system font support for TeX

Hey @tuxador, welcome and congratulations on getting started with TeX! It's wonderful stuff, straight from the brilliant mind of Donald Knuth. I feel privileged to use it.

kinleyd

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From: Bhutan

Registered: 2012-09-21

Posts: 142

Re: [Solved] Status of XeTeX and system font support for TeX

Updating this thread as "solved": texlive-bin and texlive-core come with XeTeX, XeLaTeX, LuaTeX and LuaLaTeX. I settled for LuaTeX and LuaLaTeX which did a good job of getting my system fonts rendered in my .tex documents. My collection of favourite ttfs and otfs are now working well with TeX.

fschiff

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Registered: 2011-10-06

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Re: [Solved] Status of XeTeX and system font support for TeX

FYI. I believe XeTeX is a defunct implementation of TeX, and has not been updated in several years.