Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX

2013-06-12 Thread John Was
ed (or at least, I'm not going to try and re-create the situation!). Best wishes John - Original Message - From: "Ulrike Fischer" To: Sent: 12 June 2013 08:21 Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX Am Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:02:06 +0100 schrieb John Was: I'm afraid

Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX

2013-06-12 Thread John Was
ours). It looks very much like a Registry corruption but I'll never really know now! Best wishes John - Original Message - From: Wilfred van Rooijen To: XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion. Sent: 12 June 2013 00:24 Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX I am not rea

Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX

2013-06-12 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:02:06 +0100 schrieb John Was: > I'm afraid I've run into something rather more serious. I installed the > 2012 DVD and all went OK, but now from the command prompt I get > > (null): fatal: Can't determine where the executable xetex is. That's imho not the normal message

Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX

2013-06-11 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
>Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 2:02 AM >Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX > > >I'm afraid I've run into something rather more serious.  I installed the >2012 DVD and all went OK, but now from the command prompt I get > >(null): fatal: Can't determine where t

Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX

2013-06-11 Thread John Was
rom: "Peter Dyballa" To: "XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion." Sent: 11 June 2013 16:02 Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX Am 11.06.2013 um 16:26 schrieb John Was: I will investigate, but may have to reinstall (or install an updated version, which I guess I ought to as

Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX

2013-06-11 Thread Juan Francisco Fraile Vicente
Nothing to add as I can't help, but best wishes with that. And the quote after that comment ("Of course, I broke the golden rule with Windows that one should set a restoration point before adding any new software. One learns through suffering, as Aeschylus said.") is truly great. ;-) Regards

Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX

2013-06-11 Thread John Was
t; Sent: 11 June 2013 16:02 Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX Am 11.06.2013 um 16:26 schrieb John Was: I will investigate, but may have to reinstall (or install an updated version, which I guess I ought to as 2009 seems a long way off now). Instead of trying to install a newer xdvipdfmx (then t

Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX

2013-06-11 Thread John Was
- Original Message - From: "Zdenek Wagner" To: "XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion." Sent: 11 June 2013 15:30 Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX 2013/6/11 John Was : Hello Thanks for the advice - I will investigate, but may have to reinstall (or install an updated vers

Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX

2013-06-11 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 11.06.2013 um 16:26 schrieb John Was: > I will investigate, but may have to reinstall (or install an updated version, > which I guess I ought to as 2009 seems a long way off now). Instead of trying to install a newer xdvipdfmx (then this binary certainly won't work because it would search i

Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX

2013-06-11 Thread Zdenek Wagner
X (Unicode-based TeX) discussion." > Sent: 11 June 2013 14:56 > Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX > > > > I just add an explanation. XeTeX builds a xdv file in memory and sends > it via a pipe to xdvipdfmx. If xdvipdfmx disappears from your > computer, you get this er

Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX

2013-06-11 Thread John Was
ginal Message - From: "Zdenek Wagner" To: "XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion." Sent: 11 June 2013 14:56 Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX I just add an explanation. XeTeX builds a xdv file in memory and sends it via a pipe to xdvipdfmx. If xdvipdfmx disappears from yo

Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX

2013-06-11 Thread Zdenek Wagner
I just add an explanation. XeTeX builds a xdv file in memory and sends it via a pipe to xdvipdfmx. If xdvipdfmx disappears from your computer, you get this error message It is sufficient to get just xdvipdfmx.exe unless other files disappeared too. As a side note, I successfully use epubreader plu

Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX

2013-06-11 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
File associations is unlikely to be your problem here: as the message says, xdvipdfmx can't be found. It may be a path problem, or worse; is the xdvipdfmx program at least still present on your system? It should be in the same directory as XeTeX. Arthur --

[XeTeX] Broken XeTeX

2013-06-11 Thread John Was
Hello I use plain XeTeX on Windows XP Pro, this build (from the log): This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (Web2C 2009) (format=xetex 2010.5.18) It was working OK last night, but today it fails after a few pages ( which appear to be processing normally), with this on the screen (at a