[XeTeX] Graphicx [and color] loading problem?

[Jonathan Kew]

If you replace xetex.def from the package with the attached version,  
I think you'll be OK.

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On 6 Jan 2006, at 5:17 pm, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> Oops! OK, be warned, everyone, there's a glitch here.
>
> The problem is that I gave this version a revision # of .99a, as  
> noted in the announcement; but xetex.def tries to read the  
> \XeTeXrevision as a decimal number (using \dimen trickery), and  
> gets confused because of the "a".
>
> Perhaps the "a" suffix wasn't a good idea after all. But if you  
> don't mind hacking your xetex.def, you could remove the old pre-0.6  
> support that begins with that test.
>
> My apologies.... I'll see if I can get a corrected package out  
> shortly, but am running out of time today. :(
>
> JK
>
> On 6 Jan 2006, at 5:06 pm, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I just installed the latest XeTeX i-package and I now seem to be  
>> getting a problem when loading the graphicx package:
>>
>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/xelatex/graphics/ 
>> graphics.cfg)
>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/xelatex/graphics/xetex.def
>> ! Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted).
>> <to be read again>
>>                    a
>> l.486  \dimen@=\XeTeXrevision
>>                              \p@
>> ?
>>
>> Hope this can be fixed easily.
>>
>> Good Luck,
>>
>> Herb Schulz
>> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>>
>>
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