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XETEX

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS

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NAME

xetex − extended TeX with native support for Unicode, OpenType, system fonts

SYNOPSIS

xetex [options] [**&format] [file|\**commands]

DESCRIPTION

XeTeX (xetex) is a TeX engine with native support for Unicode, OpenType, and system-installed fonts, using third-party libraries (such as ICU, HarfBuzz, and Freetype). It was developed by Jonathan Kew for SIL.

XeTeX includes the e-TeX extensions and many extensions from pdfTeX, sometimes with different primitive names.

XeTeX is now released as part of TeX Live <https://tug.org/texlive>.

OPTIONS

XeTeX’s handling of its command-line arguments is similar to that of the other TeX programs in the Web2C implementation. Here we list only additions/deletions of command line options which are specific to XeTeX; see etex(1) for common options. Additions: **
-no-pdf**

Generate XeTeX’s extended DVI (.xdv) output instead of pdf.

**-output-driver **cmd

Run cmd instead of xdvipdfmx to translate xdv to pdf.

**-papersize **string

Set pdf media size to string.

Removals: -draftmode, -enc, -ipc, -ipc-start, -translate-file.

SEE ALSO

tex(1), etex(1), latex(1).
Home page: <https://tug.org/xetex>
CTAN page: <https://ctan.org/pkg/xetex>
Reference manual: <https://ctan.org/pkg/xetexref>

AUTHORS

XeTeX is maintained by Jonathan Kew and others.
Public discussion list: <http://lists.tug.org/xetex>
Bug reports: <http://sourceforge.net/p/xetex/bugs/>

This manual page was written by Karl Berry. It is released to the public domain.

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