[XeTeX] Updating XeTeX (plain) for PS Tricks

[John Was]

Thanks Jonathan

I'm using Windows XP so with luck the work will have been done for me, though I don't really want it to overwrite my TeXLive distribution completely as I've made a few other alterations to files.  (In general it's a great relief to have the out-of-the-box TeXLive distribution, but of course one then (especially a  non-programming end-user like myself) gets completely out of touch with the finer points of tweaking, which I haven't really done since I got an EmTeX distribution about 15 years ago in the form of a dozen or so floppies with a typed list of instructions.

Best


John

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jonathan Kew 
  To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms 
  Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 9:13 AM
  Subject: JunkEmail: Re: [XeTeX] Updating XeTeX (plain) for PS Tricks


  On 7 Sep 2007, at 8:56 am, John Was wrote:


    Hi

    On looking properly at what I had done to get PSTricks to work with XeTeX, I realized that I had only made the change specified in the PSTricks support page - viz. replacing the TeXLive version of the file pstricks.con with a special version for the  xdvipdfmx  driver.

    So I think I now have to upgrade the driver itself but I can't immediately see where to do this - basically all I need to know is what files to download and where to put them in the TeXLive installation.


  Which platform are you using? For Windows, I think the prerelease "xetex-dev" version available from Akira's W32TeX page would include an updated driver, so it should work. <http://www.fsci.fuk.kindai.ac.jp/kakuto/win32-ptex/web2c75-e.html>



  For other platforms, I don't know of binary packages at the moment, so you'd need to build xdvipdfmx from source; see the "XeTeX for Linux" page for pointers, but note that you may have to do quite a bit of configure-time tweaking to point it at all the necessary libraries. If you're not used to running configure, setting CFLAGS and LDFLAGS, etc., it may be a bit of a rough experience....


  If you get the updated driver and pstricks.con installed, I'd expect it to work with either plain or latex-based formats. The pstricks support is all at the \special level in the driver. So it should be independent of the overall macro package.


  JK




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