Hi, I am a newbie to latex etc. I want it to write docs with mixed arabic and english. So I need unicode.
I downloaded the BasicTex package from :https://tug.org/mactex/morepackages.html. It’s supposed to include xetex, which I gather the is the thing I need for Arabic text. I went through the doc I was pointed to to familiarise myself http://tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html The first few commands worked successfully, like pdflatex sample2e.tex but this did not: xetex opentype-info.tex This is the error: This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99991 (TeX Live 2014) (preloaded format=xetex) restricted \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (/usr/local/texlive/2014basic/texmf-dist/tex/xetex/xetexfontinfo/opentype-info. texkpathsea:make_tex: Invalid fontname `Latin Modern Roman/ICU', contains ' ' ! Font \testfont="Latin Modern Roman/ICU" at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file or installed font not found. l.26 \font\testfont="\myfontname/ICU" at 12pt ? ^D ! Emergency stop. l.26 \font\testfont="\myfontname/ICU" at 12pt The instructions doc suggests that xetex may not be able to access system fonts and provides a solution. "If you get an error message saying “Invalid fontname ‘Latin Modern Roman/ICU’…”, then you need to configure your system so that the fonts shipped with TEX Live can be found. See Section 3.4.4.” To set up the TEX Live fonts for system-wide use (assuming you have suitable privileges), proceed as follows: Copy the texlive-fontconfig.conf file to /etc/fonts/conf.d/09-texlive.conf. Run fc-cache -fsv. But the solution doesn’t make sense since my computer doesn’t have /etc/fonts and I’ve read elsewhere that macs don’t use this kind of system. I only downloaded the BasicTex package yesterday, so it should be up to date. Can anyone help? And a bonus question: how do I config xetex/latex to output files to a particular directory, instead of dumping them in my home directory’s top level? Thanks! -- Tim -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
