d fulano wrote:
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.
\relax will certainly prevent [Xe]TeX from interpreting command-line input as a filename, but that did not seem to be what it was doing anyway. Here is a further transcript with the default code page (437) followed by the UTF-8 code page 65001 :
F:\>cd \ F:\>xetex This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9997.4 (Web2C 2010) restricted \write18 enabled. **\relax entering extended mode *é\end [1] (see the transcript file for additional information) Output written on texput.pdf (1 page). Transcript written on texput.log. F:\>chcp 65001 Active code page: 65001 F:\>xetex This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9997.4 (Web2C 2010) restricted \write18 enabled. **\relax entering extended mode *é ! Emergency stop. <*> \relax No pages of output. Transcript written on texput.log.
As you can see, the é, when entered in code page 65001, is interpreted as a Ctrl-z. Philip Taylor -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
