Re: encoding/compiling issues (macosx)

["Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

Hi Andrea,

2007/10/8, Andrea Valle <valle@di.unito.it>:
> Hi to all,
>
> we (I and Miriam, who is in CC, but she should be now on the list) are
> setting up our ConTeXt installation  in order to (re-)typeset the academic
> journal we are editors.
> We are both on macosx: the idea is to use XeTeX.
> I installed on Miriam's macbook mactex, and  I also have updated it from the
> mactex site. Exactly like mine.
> We're experiencing this problem:
> we have an utf 8 text and I'm compiling with no problem on my machine. On
> Miriam's one
> 1. if we compile with ConTeXt-pdftex (specifying the regime) we are having
> little black boxes near the non-ascii char (i.e. an accented glyph is
> rendered as non accented glyph + box)
> 2. if we compile with XeConTeXt the resulting pdf simply skips the accents
> (e.g an accented glyph is rendered non accented)

Can you send e example to the list.

> More:
> We can't do
> ctxtools --updatecontext
> it complaint it cannot fetch the zip

you can download the zip-file from pragma-ade.nl or one of the mirrors
on unzip the file in your local tex tree

> Differences:
> 1. I am on macbook pro, she's on macbook (both on 2007 intel)
> 2. I'm using the English version of the macosx system, she's using the
> Italian one.

shouldn't be a problem

Wolfgang
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