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]

XeT E X (xetex) is a T E X 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.

XeT E X includes the e-T E X extensions and many extensions from pdfT E X, sometimes with different primitive names.

XeT E X is now released as part of T E X Live <https://tug.org/texlive>.

Options

XeT E X's handling of its command-line arguments is similar to that of the other T E X programs in the Web2C implementation. Here we list only additions/deletions of command line options which are specific to XeT E X; see etex(1) for common options. Additions:

-no-pdf: Generate XeT E X'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.