[XeTeX] error \begin{document}

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jun 1, 2011, at 4:01 PM, Ruth Robbins wrote:

> Here's everything up until the error message
> 
> % !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
> % !TEX TS-program = XeLaTeX
> % XeLaTeX can use any Mac OS X font. See the setromanfont command below.
> % Input to XeLaTeX is full Unicode, so Unicode characters can be typed directly into the source.
> 
> % The next lines tell TeXShop to typeset with xelatex, and to open and save the source with Unicode encoding.
> \documentclass[12pt]{book}
> \usepackage{geometry}                % See geometry.pdf to learn the layout options. There are lots.
> 
> \geometry{letterpaper}                   % ... or a4paper or a5paper or ...
> %\geometry{landscape}                % Activate for for rotated page geometry
> %\usepackage[parfill]{parskip}    % Activate to begin paragraphs with an empty line rather than an indent
> 
> \usepackage{graphicx}
> \usepackage{amssymb}
> \usepackage{longtable}
> 
> % Will Robertson's fontspec.sty can be used to simplify font choices.
> % To experiment, open /Applications/Font Book to examine the fonts provided on Mac OS X,
> % and change "Hoefler Text" to any of these choices.
> 
> \usepackage{fontspec,xltxtra,xunicode}
> \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
> \setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Charis SIL}
> \setsansfont[Scale=MatchLowercase,Mapping=tex-text]{Charis SIL}
> \setmonofont[Scale=MatchLowercase]{Charis SIL}
> 
> \title{ESQUISSE PHONOLOGIQUE ET GRAMMATICALE D’UN
> PARLER SÉNOUFO:\\
> LE TYÉBARA DE KORHOGO
> CÔTE D’IVOIRE}
> \author{Elizabeth Mills}
> \date{}    % Activate to display a given date or no date
> \begin{document}

Howdy,

Just added

Hello World!
\end{document}

and it compiled just fine, so something else is giving you the error. What does the Console output or log file look like? Can you add some more to make an example document which is compilable and fails?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)