[XeTeX] XeTeXinterchartokenstate

[Jonathan Kew]

On 7 Feb 2008, at 10:28 am, François Charette wrote:

> John Was a écrit :
>> Hello
>>
>> I wanted to try out the interchartoken feature but I'm getting
>> 'unknown control sequence' messages with the following simple
>> experiment (designed to bring a Greek asper closer to a capital A):
>>
>> \XeTeXinterchartokenstate = 1
>> \XeTeXcharclass `\῾ 11
>> \XeTeXcharclass `\A 13
>> \XeTeXinterchartoks 11 13 = {\kern -0.05em}
>>
>> All three of these control sequences are unrecognized.
>>
>> My installation is from the TeXLive2007 disk so is presumably out of
>> date, though I tremble at the thought of reinstalling the SVN version
>> from scratch.  Is there some specific file that I can/should alter or
>> replace?
> As you suspect, the interchartoken features require xetex v0.997. SVN
> compilation and installation is not hard on Linux or Mac, but probably
> more difficult on Windows. Instead I guess you can replace your xetex
> binary with this one:
>     ftp://akagi.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/pub/TeX/win32/xetex-dev-w32.tar.bz2
> Windows users can probably confirm whether this would work.

IIRC, I think there are some instructions on Akira's page about using  
W32TeX binaries to update a TeX Live setup; you may need to replace  
several things (the .exe itself and also some .dll files, I expect).

JK