[XeTeX] (bug?) letterspacing with LetterSpace and soul

Apostolos Syropoulos asyropoulos at yahoo.com
Sun May 30 17:20:53 CEST 2010


>Unfortunately test.tex doesn't compile 
properly on a Windows system using plain XeTeX.  The first complaint it 
makes 
>is that it doesn't understand the command \typeout, and when told 
to 
ignore that (more than once)  it goes on to 
>typeset the passage but with no 
hyphenation patterns loaded - so there are overfull rules at various 
points in 
the text.  
>The error message (which I suppose is meant to go in the log) actually appears at the start of the resulting PDF, 
>before the Greek 
text 
starts.
 
First of all, did you rebuild your format file? In order to avoid the problem with the \typeout commands, use the following
simplified version:

\def\setlanguage#1{\language=\csname l@#1\endcsname}

A.S.
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Apostolos Syropoulos
Xanthi, Greece


      
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