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6 posts • Page 1 of 1 Jamwa Posts: 10 Joined: Mon May 07, 2012 2:56 pm

Help with error: XeTeX is required to compile this document

Post by Jamwa » Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:21 pm

I am fairly experienced with \LaTeX . So I wanted to change the default font and I have Googled around to find out I need to use and fontspec is what is recommended. Here we go:

\documentclass \usepackage \usepackage \setmainfont \begin \lipsum[1-3] \end

When I try to compile it,

latex test_latex.tex

I get an error, the most glaring of which is

******************************************** * XeTeX is required to compile this document. * Sorry! ********************************************

So I try another (the recommended?) approach but still errors abound:

sh-4.1$ xetex test_latex.tex This is XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996 (Web2C 7.5.6) %&-line parsing enabled. entering extended mode (./test_latex.tex ! Undefined control sequence. l.1 \documentclass ?

What am I doing wrong?

Last edited by cgnieder on Tue Oct 16, 2012 7:54 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Help with error: XeTeX is required to compile this document Topic is solved

Post by Stefan Kottwitz » Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:28 pm

LaTeX.org admin Jamwa Posts: 10 Joined: Mon May 07, 2012 2:56 pm

Help with error: XeTeX is required to compile this document

Post by Jamwa » Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:34 pm

use xelatex

I have just done that and quite a lot of output I get, but still error:

sh-4.1$ xelatex test_latex.tex This is XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996 (Web2C 7.5.6) %&-line parsing enabled. kpathsea: Running mktexfmt xelatex.fmt fmtutil: running `xetex -ini -jobname=xelatex -progname=xelatex -etex xelatex.ini' . This is XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996 (Web2C 7.5.6) (INITEX) %&-line parsing enabled. entering extended mode (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/latexconfig/xelatex.ini (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/xetexconfig/unicode-letters.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latex.ltx (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/texsys.cfg) ./texsys.aux found \@currdir set to: ./. Assuming \openin and \input have the same search path. Defining UNIX/DOS style filename parser. catcodes, registers, compatibility for TeX 2, parameters, . ! You are attempting to make a LaTeX format from a source file ! That is more than five years old. ! ! If you enter to scroll past this message then the format ! will be built, but please consider obtaining newer source files ! before continuing to build LaTeX. . ! LaTeX source files more than 5 years old!. l.545 . aTeX source files more than 5 years old!> ? ! Emergency stop. l.545 . aTeX source files more than 5 years old!> No pages of output. Transcript written on xelatex.log. Error: `xetex -ini -jobname=xelatex -progname=xelatex -etex xelatex.ini' failed ############################################################################### fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully. Visit the log files in directory /home/arthur/.texlive2007/texmf-var/web2c for details. ############################################################################### This is a summary of all `failed' messages and warnings: `xetex -ini -jobname=xelatex -progname=xelatex -etex xelatex.ini' failed warning: kpathsea: mktexfmt output `This is XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996 (Web2C 7.5.6) (INITEX) %&-line parsing enabled. entering extended mode (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/latexconfig/xelatex.ini (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/xetexconfig/unicode-letters.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latex.ltx (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/texsys.cfg) ./texsys.aux found \@currdir set to: ./. Assuming \openin and \input have the same search path. Defining UNIX/DOS style filename parser. catcodes, registers, compatibility for TeX 2, parameters, . ! You are attempting to make a LaTeX format from a source file ! That is more than five years old. ! ! If you enter to scroll past this message then the format ! will be built, but please consider obtaining newer source files ! before continuing to build LaTeX. . ! LaTeX source files more than 5 years old!. l.545 . aTeX source files more than 5 years old!> ? ! Emergency stop. l.545 . aTeX source files more than 5 years old!> No pages of output. Transcript written on xelatex.log.' instead of a filename. I can't find the format file `xelatex.fmt'! sh-4.1$

No PDF file is produced at the end of it all