[XeTeX] Re: [OS X TeX] XeTeX

[Martin Stokhof]

Hi,

I tried your sample file, and got the same result for xetex as you did:

! Bad mathchar (67108904).
l.3 \mathchardef\tmp\mathcode`\(

?
 > \tmp=\mathchar"0.
l.4 \show\tmp

?
  )
No pages of output.

All others (tex, etx, pdftex, pdfetex) produce the following output:

 > \tmp=\mathchar"4028.
l.4 \show\tmp

?
  )
No pages of output.

This is with xetex running under 10.3.

Martin



On Apr 13, 2004, at 02:44, Ross Moore wrote:

>
> Hello Mike,
>
>> On 13/04/2004, at 10:30 AM, mike leonard wrote:
>>
>> I downloaded this and processed the sample files and it seems really  
>> impressive. However, I'm not sure how useful it will be to me if I  
>> can't use my LaTeX packages/knowledge/documents with it. Can anyone  
>> who knows more tell me if this is indeed possible?
>
> This is indeed possible, but I'm having difficulties with mathematics.
>
> Would you please try the following 3-line file, and report your  
> results:
>
> [glenlivet:] rossmoor% more mtest
> \mathchardef\tmp\mathcode`\(
> \show\tmp
> \bye
>
> Check the result of processing this with:
>   tex,  pdftex,  etex,  pdfetex  and  xetex .
> (You'll need to hit <return> after it stops
> at the \show\tmp line.)
>
>
> If they are all the same, then that's good!
> But I get  xetex  producing the following:
>
> This is XeTeXk, Version 3.14159-2.1-0.3 (Web2C 7.5.2)
>  %&-line parsing enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./mtest
> ! Bad mathchar (67108904).
> l.1 \mathchardef\tmp\mathcode`\(
>
> ?
> > \tmp=\mathchar"0.
> l.2 \show\tmp
>
> ?
>  )
>
> which indicates that \mathcode data hasn't been set
> correctly, thereby killing much of the mathematics
> support in XeTeX, and also killing some of the methods
> used by AMS packages for creating and using math-struts
> in the typesetting of not-obviously-math constructions.
>
>
>>
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