Thanks Stratos, I used your suggestion and it’s now all working. tim
On 14 August 2014 at 11:03:43 am, Stratos Paschos (pascho...@gmail.com) wrote: > Considering that the fonts (Latin Modern Roman) have been installed, > you have to make them (and > generally the fonts coming with TeX) known by the system. To do that, > follow the suggestion by Herbert Schulz in the following link: > > http://macosx-tex.576846.n2.nabble.com/Accessing-TeX-Live-fonts-from-XeTeX-td5383821.html > > > (substitute 2010 by 2014 in the path) > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Tim wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I am a newbie to latex etc. I want it to write docs with mixed arabic and > > english. So I need > unicode. > > > > I downloaded the BasicTex package from > > :https://tug.org/mactex/morepackages.html. > > > > It’s supposed to include xetex, which I gather the is the thing I need for > > Arabic text. > > > . . . > > > Thanks! > > > > > > -- > > Tim > > Stratos > -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex