xetex - Man Page
extended TeX with native support for Unicode, OpenType, system fonts
Examples (TL;DR)
- Compile a PDF document:
xetex source.tex
- Compile a PDF document, specifying an output directory:
xetex -output-directory=path/to/directory source.tex
- Compile a PDF document, exiting if errors occur:
xetex -halt-on-error source.tex
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.