[tex-live] Win32: xelatex -0.999.4 failure to process sample2e.tex

[Jonathan Kew]

On 2 Aug 2008, at 5:27 PM, Norbert Preining wrote:

> On Sa, 02 Aug 2008, George N. White III wrote:
>> C:\Testing>xelatex sample2e
>> This is XeTeXk, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.999.4 (Web2C 7.5.7)
>
> 0.999.4 was a very recent update, Jonathan, is there something broken
> ...

Oh dear; I hope not!

It runs fine for me:

> jonathan-pro:~ jonathan$ xelatex sample2e
> This is XeTeXk, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.999.4 (Web2C 7.5.6)
>  %&-line parsing enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (/Users/jonathan/texlive/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/sample2e.tex
> LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
> Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax,  
> dumylang, noh
> yphenation, german-x-2008-06-18, ngerman-x-2008-06-18, ancientgreek,  
> ibycus, ar
> abic, basque, bulgarian, catalan, pinyin, coptic, croatian, czech,  
> danish, dutc
> h, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, galician, german,  
> ngerman, mono
> greek, greek, hungarian, icelandic, indonesian, interlingua, irish,  
> italian, la
> tin, mongolian, mongolian2a, bokmal, nynorsk, polish, portuguese,  
> romanian, rus
> sian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish,  
> turkish, ukenglis
> h, ukrainian, uppersorbian, welsh, loaded.
> (/Users/jonathan/texlive/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
> (/Users/jonathan/texlive/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
> No file sample2e.aux.
> (/Users/jonathan/texlive/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/omscmr.fd)  
> [1]
> [2] [3] (./sample2e.aux) )
> Output written on sample2e.pdf (3 pages).
> Transcript written on sample2e.log.
> jonathan-pro:~ jonathan$

but of course this isn't the W32 build. (I didn't even know that had  
been updated already.)

I'll try to find time to look at it more later this evening....

JK