[XeTeX] xetex installation

[Zdenek Wagner]

And if you do not know which font file to send me, this is a help:

$ fc-match -v lohitbengali
Pattern has 31 elts (size 32)
        family: "Lohit Bengali"(s)
        familylang: "en"(s)
        style: "Regular"(w)
        stylelang: "en"(w)
        fullname: "Lohit Bengali"(w)
        fullnamelang: "en"(w)
        slant: 0(i)(s)
        weight: 80(i)(s)
        width: 100(i)(s)
        size: 12(f)(s)
        pixelsize: 12.5(f)(s)
        foundry: "unknown"(s)
        hintstyle: 3(i)(s)
        hinting: FcTrue(s)
        verticallayout: FcFalse(s)
        autohint: FcTrue(w)
        globaladvance: FcTrue(s)
        file: "/usr/share/fonts/lohit-bengali/Lohit-Bengali.ttf"(s)
        index: 0(i)(s)
        outline: FcTrue(s)
        scalable: FcTrue(s)
        dpi: 75(f)(s)
        scale: 1(f)(s)
        charset:
        0000: 00000000 ffffffff f8000001 78000001 00000000 00000004
00800000 00800000
        0009: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000030 fff99fee f3c5fdff
b080799f 0fffffcf
        0020: 33183000 00000040 00000000 00000000 00000000 02000000
00000000 00000000
        0022: 00040000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000
        0025: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00001000 00000000
(s)
        lang: as|bn|mni(s)
        fontversion: 163840(i)(s)
        capability: "otlayout:beng"(s)
        fontformat: "TrueType"(s)
        embeddedbitmap: FcTrue(s)
        decorative: FcFalse(s)
        namelang: "en"(s)

Notice that fc-match tries to find similar names if the exact match is not
found. It says that the correct font name is Lohit Bengali and the
corresponding file is
/usr/share/fonts/lohit-bengali/Lohit-Bengali.ttf


Zdeněk Wagner
http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz

2016-03-13 21:11 GMT+01:00 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>:

> If it is a font issue, TeX Live 2015 will not help but downgrade to 2012
> will. I still have all versions from 2007 to 2015 installed. If I get a
> short text demonstrating complex conjuncts and your font file, I can test
> it in all TL versions both with your font and my fonts.
>
> Zdeněk Wagner
> http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
>
> 2016-03-13 19:40 GMT+01:00 Susan Dittmar <Susan.Dittmar at gmx.de>:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Purnendu Chakraborty schrieb:
>>
>>> I have a naive question to the group. How do I set up xetex distribution
>>> in the
>>> user area?  I could not find any documentation in this regard.
>>>
>>> The reason is the following. I have TeXlive 2013 from  Opensuse 13.2. I
>>> find
>>> that the xetex bundled with distribution is buggy. I have some issue
>>> with Bengali
>>> conjuncts with this version of xetex.  So I want a fresh install of
>>> xetex without
>>> touching the system-wide TexLive installation.
>>>
>>
>> If you have enough room on the disk -- my installation takes about 4.3 G
>> -- you can easily install the current texlive (which includes xetex) in
>> your home directory. Just download the installation script, start it as
>> instructed, and before you tell it to install, change the directories
>> appropriately. Then write a small script that adds the paths to your
>> current environment. Something like
>>
>> ------ texlive2015.sh ------
>> #!/bin/bash
>> export INFOPATH="~/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/doc/info:${INFOPATH}"
>> export  MANPATH="~/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/doc/man:${MANPATH}"
>> export     PATH="~/texlive/2015/bin/x86_64-linux:${PATH}"
>> ------ end of texlive2015.sh ------
>>
>> You might have to adjust the paths. Now, before you use xetex, call this
>> script, for example
>>
>> . texlive2015.sh
>>
>> from the same shell (terminal) from which you call your XeTeX-using
>> programms.
>>
>> This precedes the given paths with the new version paths, so any program
>> you call with these environment variables active is searched for in the new
>> directories first.
>>
>> If you know you'll never want to use openSUSE's version of texlive 2013,
>> you can rename this file to '~/.profile' (make sure such a file does not
>> yet exist) or append those commands to an existing ~/.profile file. Then
>> you can even use (graphical) window manager shortcuts to TeX editors (in
>> case you use them) with the correct environment settings.
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>>
>> Susan
>>
>>
>>
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