[XeTeX] How to use the XeTeX in subversion trunk ?

[Axel E. Retif]

On  22 Feb, 2008, at 10:24, Lingyun Yang wrote:

> Hi,
>
>     I am heavily relying on the new features XeTeX 0.997 introduced  
> for Chinese Language,
> Can anyone tell me how to use the new code in trunk ? I am  
> currently using MacTeX 2007 which comes with 0.996 versin, the  
> latest release. I hope I don't have to touch global TEXMF directories.

I built mine thanks to Alex Hamann:

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On  4 Nov, 2007, at 06:30, Alex Hamann wrote:

> Hi Axel,
>
> I would not consider myself an experienced command line user. Still  
> I found it pretty easy to build xetex and fontspec from source:
> - get a working svn installation
> - get the source code (information here: http://scripts.sil.org/cms/ 
> scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=xetex_download )
> - two little scripts do all the work (first: build-xetex; second:  
> install-xetex)
> that did it for me.
>
>

Done! Thanks a lot! In fact, I saw that I could download ``a tarball  
from the ViewVC interface at http://scripts.sil.org/svn-view/xetex/ 
TRUNK'', and that's what I did; then I ran the two scripts you  
mention, and now I have xetex 0.997!
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And it really was that easy.

Best,

Axel