XETEX(1)

💖 XETEX(1) 💖

General Commands Manual ✨ xetex

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🌸 NAME 🌸

xetex — it's extended TeX, bestie!! with native support for Unicode, OpenType, and system fonts 💅 no cap

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

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

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

XeTeX (xetex) is a TeX engine that has native support for Unicode, OpenType, and system-installed fonts, and it does all that using third-party libraries (like ICU, HarfBuzz, and Freetype, iykyk). It was developed by Jonathan Kew for SIL. 🌈

XeTeX comes with the e-TeX extensions plus a whole bunch of extensions from pdfTeX — sometimes with different primitive names, so watch out for that 🙈

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

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

okay so XeTeX handles its command-line arguments pretty much like the other TeX programs in the Web2C implementation. We're only listing the additions/deletions of command line options that are specific to XeTeX here, bestie — for the common options go look at etex(1). 👑

Additions:

• -no-pdf — generate XeTeX's extended DVI (.xdv) output instead of pdf. it's giving "I want the in-between file" energy 🎀
• -output-driver cmd — run cmd instead of xdvipdfmx to translate xdv to pdf. main character energy, choosing your own driver ✨
• -papersize string — set pdf media size to string. slay 📄

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

not me having to tell you those five got ✂️ removed — they're just not here anymore, okay?? 💀

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🫶 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> 📚

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👑 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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okay that's the whole page bestie, you're so welcome 💖

this cutie was brought to you by Web2C 2025, dated 10 July 2018, and it lives at XETEX(1) 🦋✨