I have two machines running squeeze, but different outputs: hen...@webconverger testing$ xelatex letter.tex This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (TeX Live 2009/Debian) restricted \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./letter.tex LaTeX2e <2009/09/24> Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh yphenation, loaded. (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/letter.cls Document Class: letter 1999/04/29 v1.2z Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/fontspec/fontspec.sty (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/ifxetex/ifxetex.sty) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/tools/calc.sty) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/xkeyval/xkeyval.sty (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/xkeyval/xkeyval.tex (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/xkeyval/keyval.tex))) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/euenc/eu1enc.def) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/euenc/eu1lmr.fd)) fontspec.cfg loaded. (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/fontspec/fontspec.cfg)) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/xunicode/xunicode.sty) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/english.ldf (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/babel.def))) No file letter.aux. [1 ! I can't write on file `letter.pdf'. (Press Enter to retry, or Control-D to exit; default file extension is `.pdf') Please type another file name for output: ! Emergency stop. <to be read again> \endgroup \...@typeset@protect l.32 \end{document}
No pages of output. Transcript written on letter.log. hen...@h2 testing$ xelatex letter.tex This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (TeX Live 2009/Debian) restricted \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./letter.tex LaTeX2e <2009/09/24> Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh yphenation, loaded. (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/letter.cls Document Class: letter 1999/04/29 v1.2z Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/fontspec/fontspec.sty (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/ifxetex/ifxetex.sty) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/tools/calc.sty) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/xkeyval/xkeyval.sty (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/xkeyval/xkeyval.tex (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/xkeyval/keyval.tex))) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/euenc/eu1enc.def) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/euenc/eu1lmr.fd)) fontspec.cfg loaded. (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/fontspec/fontspec.cfg)) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/xunicode/xunicode.sty) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/english.ldf (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/babel.def))) No file letter.aux. [1] (./letter.aux) ) Output written on letter.pdf (1 page). Transcript written on letter.log. It does not make any sense. :( webconverger is on a VPS and could it be some really odd code in xelatex? the whole texlive-* stack is pretty insane. Maybe it's time to convert my project to use http://princexml.com/ -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex