Maybe try to say \relax to the first ** prompt and then
type your command at the single * prompt that will appear. This is the recommended method from the texbook to run tex interactively, as the ** prompt is where someone puts a file name, and \relax enters interactive mode. Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:20:40 +0100 From: Zdenek Wagner <[email protected]> To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX and code page 65001 Message-ID: <cac1phyaoya1ooushurrgketbxqvpa0aexof0sgxs2x__moq...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 2012/2/3 Philip TAYLOR <[email protected]>: > Trying to help Nat?rcia Fernandes with her query regarding > Portuguese hyphenation on TeXhax today, I had occasion > to try the following : > > > ? ? ? ?C:\>xetex > ? ? ? ?This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9997.4 (Web2C 2010) > ? ? ? ? restricted \write18 enabled. > ? ? ? ?**\showhyphens {nat?rcia} > > ? ? ? ?! End of file on the terminal... why? > Strange. This is from TL 2011 in Linux x86_64: This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-0.9997.5 (TeX Live 2011) **\showhyphens {nat?rcia} entering extended mode Missing character: There is no ? in font cmr10! Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) detected at line 0 [] \tenrm na-tr-cia \hbox(6.67859+0.0)x16383.99998, glue set 9798.10976 [] * > > If I carry this out in Win/XP's normal catcode r?gime, all proceeds > normally but the output is corrupt at the point of the accented > character; if I try the same thing with Lucida Console selected > as my CMD font and the code page changed to 65001 (Win/XP's number > for UTF-8) so that I can see the accented "e" in Nat?rcia's name > correctly, I get instead the above "end of file" message. > > Can anyone hazard a guess as to why ? > > Philip Taylor -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
