Hello everyone,
I had written a book using aleph and it was compiling properly till I
changed my laptop and installed everything afresh. Then it developed
several problems, some of which I could solve with help. But there
still remained some problem and finally, I decided to use xelatex.
Thus, I modified the code to suit xelatex and compiled. It compiled
without any error and gave a pdf output. But the pdf file contained
only boxes and no text. I used my favourite Rachana font with old
style letters. I am giving the entire preamble below. Could someone
tell me what I could be doing wrong? I have Rachana installed on my
system and use it to create documents occasionally with Libre Office.
In fact, I have been usng xelatex with Rachana font for writing
articles without any problem. Thus this looks rather strange!
Thank you in advance for any help.
Regards,
Sasi
My preamble:
\documentclass[a5paper,11pt,openany]{book}
\oddsidemargin=-1in
\topmargin=-1in
\usepackage{graphicx}
\let\footruleskip\undefined
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage[paperheight=22.225cm,,paperwidth=14.2875cm,lmargin=15mm,tmargin=20mm]{geometry}
\textheight=16cm
\textwidth=11cm
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\newfontfamily \mayalamfont[Script=Malayalam]{Rachana}
\setromanfont{DejaVu Serif}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\usepackage{caption}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{0}
\usepackage{balance}
\makeatletter
\def\thickhrule{\leavevmode \leaders \hrule height 1ex \hfill \kern \z@}
\def\position{\centering}
\renewcommand{\@makechapterhead}[1]{%
\vspace*{10\p@}%
{\parindent \z@ \position \reset@font
{\centering\LARGE \thechapter . #1}
\par\nobreak
\vspace*{5\p@}%
\interlinepenalty\@M
\par\nobreak
\vspace*{2\p@}%
\vskip 5mm
}}
\makeatother
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\chapter{%
\vskip 25mm
\@afterindentfalse
\secdef\@chapter\@schapter}
\makeatother
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\section{\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@}%
{-3.5ex \@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
{2.3ex \@plus.2ex}%
{\normalfont}}
\makeatother
\setlength{\parindent}{8mm}
\newcommand{\dash}{\raisebox{2pt}{\rule{3mm}{0.5pt}}}
\newcommand{\chem}[1]{\ensuremath\mathrm{#1}}
\lefthyphenmin=3
\righthyphenmin=3
\setlength{\parskip}{0cm}
\makeindex
\pagenumbering{roman}
\def\thepage{{ \roman{page}}}
\makeatletter
\DeclareOldFontCommand{\rm}{\normalfont\rmfamily}{\mathrm}
\DeclareOldFontCommand{\sf}{\normalfont\sffamily}{\mathsf}
\DeclareOldFontCommand{\tt}{\normalfont\ttfamily}{\mathtt}
\DeclareOldFontCommand{\bf}{\normalfont\bfseries}{\mathbf}
\DeclareOldFontCommand{\it}{\normalfont\itshape}{\mathit}
\DeclareOldFontCommand{\sl}{\normalfont\slshape}{\@nomath\sl}
\DeclareOldFontCommand{\sc}{\normalfont\scshape}{\@nomath\sc}
\makeatother
%================================ BODY ===================================
\begin{document}
--
V. Sasi Kumar
Free Software Foundation of India
Please see: http://swatantryam.blogspot.com/
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