[XeTeX] Emulating font extension

[Vadim Radionov]

Yes, you are right.  I installed it too and also the missing freefont2.

But, unfortunately, things become even worse.  If I compile you example, I get

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This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9994.0 (Web2C 7.5.6)
**\relax
entering extended mode

*\font\y="Newton:extend=1.1" at 12pt \y Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.

*\bye
[1]
Output file removed.

Error 256 (driver return code) generating output;
file texput.pdf may not be valid.
Transcript written on texput.log.
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(Newton is local Times with cyrillic).  My main job compliles, but
there appears no
stretching, only spaces between normal characters.




On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Jonathan Kew<jfkthame at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 18 Jun 2009, at 15:31, Vadim Radionov wrote:
>
>> It's Ubuntu hardy haron (2.6.24-16-generic).  It has rather old .996
>> xetex with texlive-2007, so I built it from repository today.
>>
>> Another test on my installation shows that being enclosed in \fbox,
>> the enormously extended text protrudes to the right outside the box,
>> while the stretched one leaves some white space on the right.
>>
>
> Aha. I suspect you've only built and installed a new xetex, but not the
> corresponding xdvipdfmx.
>
> JK
>
>