[XeTeX] no pdf?

[Bruno Voisin]

Le 7 sept. 07 à 14:41, John Was a écrit :

> A possibly related phenomenon that I've found quite irritating is  
> that after
> producing a PDF in XeTeX I (naturally) call it up onscreen and scroll
> through looking for glitches, and when I find one I of course go  
> back to the
> input file, make appropriate changes, and rerun XeTeX.  The  
> irritation is
> that if I don't remember to note the page number of the PDF  
> containing the
> glitch and then close the file, no new PDF is generated.
>
> [...]
>
> This may just be a matter of my getting used to a different modus  
> operandi,
> but I suspect I'm not the only one who regularly says 'Oh damn' upon
> realizing that I've left the PDF open.  I'm used to Y&Y's DVIWindo  
> in my old
> TeX setup (which I still mainly use, quite separate from the TL  
> one), which
> refreshes the display as soon as it realizes the source file has  
> changed, so
> I guess I've been pampered, but if there's some ready solution I  
> think it
> would be worth applying (or offering as an optional default).

You said in a separate message that your OS is Windows XP. How, then,  
are you running XeTeX? Is this with WindEdt or TexnicCenter as front- 
end, and MikTeX or TeXLive as TeX distribution? Or are you running  
XeTeX from the command line?

Your description of the way you run XeTeX seems fairly esoteric to  
me. I'm a Mac user, and on the Mac the TeXShop front end allows to  
run XeTeX in exactly the way you're willing it to run (i.e. with  
automatic PDF refresh after each typesetting). But maybe I'm missing  
something.

Bruno Voisin