[XeTeX] error \begin{document}

[Ruth Robbins]

just tried desperate measures--trashed the aux files and then ran the  
typesetting again and it worked.  So something must have been wrong  
with an aux file.
Ruth

On Jun 1, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

>
> 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)
>
>
>
>
>
>
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