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Where to go for help Note: SIL International no longer manages XeTeX development. Please refer to the following paragraphs to find excellent sources of help. XeTeX Home For questions or discussion about installing or using XeTeX and related packages, please go to the For bug reports about the XeTeX software itself, or specific feature requests (rather than general discussion), there is an The comment form on this page is available for general comments about the software or the web pages themselves (yes, I know they need updating!), but please do not expect technical support through this channel. You are much more likely to get useful responses on the Update — September 2013 The latest release of XeTeX is version 0.9999.3, which is included in The TeX Users Group hosts a Latest releaseThe latest release of XeTeX is currently version 0.999.6, available as part of For possible use with older TeX distributions, an older XeTeX package remains available below. Attention! Please note that the downloads below are no longer recommended for general use; TeX Live 2008+ and other current distributions such as W32TeX, MikTeX, and ConTeXt are now the preferred way to get up-to-date versions of XeTeX. Some Linux distros and similar packages are still shipping TeX Live 2007, which also contains a usable version of XeTeX, although not as current as the 2008 distribution. For such systems, the standalone TeX Live 2008 distribution can also be installed an alternative to the packages provided via distro repositories, for users who want more current versions. Version 0.995, released 2006-08-16Release 0.995 includes a number of bug fixes and new features, including an alternative (usually faster) output driver, and preliminary support for the full range of Unicode letters in math mode. Highlights of the 0.995 release include:
XeTeX licenseXeTeX is copyright ©1994-2006 by SIL International. It is distributed under the X11 free software license: XeTeX license Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL SIL INTERNATIONAL BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. Except as contained in this notice, the name of SIL International shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from SIL International. The XeTeX program is derived from e-TeX, by the NTS team; e-TeX in turn is derived from Donald E. Knuth’s TeX. TeX is a trademark of the American Mathematical Society. XeTeX downloadsLatest version for Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4
Alternatively, The For older Mac OS X systemsFor users of older (pre-10.3) versions Mac OS X, there may be a better chance of success with an older release of XeTeX, as the latest version has not been tested on earlier systems:
For other operating systemsSee the separate XeTeX for Linux page for packages and notes related to running XeTeX on Unix-like operating systems. Thanks to Akira Kakuto, who distributes the W32TeX software collection, there is now a Windows port of XeTeX available: see Source codeThe source code for the current development version of XeTeX may be obtained by checking out a working copy from the repository at https://scripts.sil.org/svn-public/xetex/TRUNK using a Subversion client, or by downloading a tarball from the ViewVC interface at https://scripts.sil.org/svn-view/xetex/TRUNK. Documentation and sample filesNote that these files are also included in the main .dmg download above.
Additional examples (updated December 8, 2005)
Other papersA talk about XeTeX, including the introduction of XeTeX for Linux, was presented at
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Underlying TeX setupXeTeX has primarily been tested in conjunction with the TeX installation provided by Gerben Wierda's © 2003-2023 SIL International, all rights reserved, unless otherwise noted elsewhere on this page. |