1XETEX(1) General Commands Manual XETEX(1)
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6 xetex - extended TeX with native support for Unicode, OpenType, system
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10 xetex [options] [&format] [file|\commands]
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13 XeTeX (xetex) is a TeX engine with native support for Unicode, Open‐
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15 ICU, HarfBuzz, and Freetype). It was developed by Jonathan Kew for SIL.
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17 XeTeX includes the e-TeX extensions and many extensions from pdfTeX,
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20 XeTeX is now released as part of TeX Live <https://tug.org/texlive>.
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23 XeTeX's handling of its command-line arguments is similar to that of
24 the other TeX programs in the Web2C implementation. Here we list only
25 additions/deletions of command line options which are specific to Xe‐
26 TeX; see etex(1) for common options. Additions:
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37 Removals: -draftmode, -enc, -ipc, -ipc-start, -translate-file.
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40 tex(1), etex(1), latex(1).
41 Home page: <https://tug.org/xetex>
42 CTAN page: <https://ctan.org/pkg/xetex>
43 Reference manual: <https://ctan.org/pkg/xetexref>
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46 XeTeX is maintained by Jonathan Kew and others.
47 Public discussion list: <http://lists.tug.org/xetex>
48 Bug reports: <http://sourceforge.net/p/xetex/bugs/>
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50 This manual page was written by Karl Berry. It is released to the pub‐
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