[Gllug] Last Night's Meeting

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Mon Jun 21 19:47:25 UTC 2010


On 21 Jun 2010, tethys at gmail.com outgrape:

> On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Roger Whittaker
> <roger.whittaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That's the idea of XeTeX and XeLaTeX: that you can just type unicode stuff
>> into the source file, and you get what you expect provided that the
>> fonts support it.
>
> Nice theory. However, trying to test the sample you provided earlier:
>
> 	mrburns:~/tex% ls
> 	z.tex
> 	mrburns:~/tex% xelatex z.tex
> 	This is XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996 (Web2C 7.5.6)
> 	 %&-line parsing enabled.
> 	entering extended mode
> 	(./z.tex
> 	LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>

That's... old. Looks like TeXLive 2007 or even earlier?

Try upgrading to 2009, it's been out for over a year now.

(What distro is this? Even Debian is on 2009 now.)
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