Activity for MiKTeX

Anton Surda posted a comment on discussion Help

Anton Surda — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:48:51 -0000

The problem is already solved.

Anton Surda posted a comment on discussion Help

Anton Surda — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:08:42 -0000

Command \special{header=xxx.ps} was working in older version of Miktex when the file xxx.ps was in the same directory as the source file. In the last version of MIktex, the system cannot find it even if I give the full path to it. Is it possble too write the content of the file xxx.ps directly to the source file?

Shane Gibney posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Shane Gibney — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 21:15:18 -0000

Origin top left,

Shane Gibney posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Shane Gibney — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 20:59:09 -0000

The origin is at the top left. Moving right along the x-axis is increasing positively and going down from the origin is also increasing positively the yaxis..

dan hayes posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

dan hayes — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:15:30 -0000

ok i thought it changed the origin. I found out this. If i do a put.... and don't change that but just change the 2nd set of 2 numbers making them more positive moves the object drawn to the left(first number) and down(2nd number). so that would seem to be the coord's for the right ,top corner. Making the numbers more positive in put[...,,...] does opposite. It moves to the right and up. NOw the book by Lamport writes those 2nd set of numbers are the coordinates of the lower-left corner which makes...

Jürgen Mähnß posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Jürgen Mähnß — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 15:42:30 -0000

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Picture

Shane Gibney posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Shane Gibney — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 10:32:14 -0000

I presume it's coordinates of the top left corner and the height and weight. Just try different numbers one at a time, see what changes and you'll find out what they are.

dan hayes posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

dan hayes — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 13:06:11 -0000

for some reason it is not in the miktex manual Why ? Anyway what do the 2 sets of 2 numbers mean in for example \begin{picture}(111,222)(5,10) I found it before but now i cannot get back to the place i found the description

Max Müller posted a comment on discussion Help

Max Müller — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 22:48:17 -0000

Hello all together, I have a big challenge with an older LaTeX project: I'd like to open and to modify a document, which I have created ~ 7 years ago with the following setup: - Windows XP - MiKTeX 2.9.6406 - WinEdt 8.2 Now I have the following setup: - Windows 10 - MiKTeX 24.1 - WinEdt 11.2 and unfortunately, a compiling is not possible any more. Up to now I was thinking that one of the biggest advantages of LaTeX is, that you can also compile the documents in 50 years without to be worry about...

drmandarin posted a comment on discussion Help

drmandarin — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:59:40 -0000

Hello Currently miktex.org persistently returns a 502 error. Does anybody know how to contact the webadmin for that site?

drmandarin posted a comment on discussion Help

drmandarin — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:38:24 -0000

Currently miktek.org persistently returns a 502 error. Does anybody know how to contact the webadmin for that site?

Saw Seow Hui posted a comment on discussion Help

Saw Seow Hui — Sat, 13 Jul 2019 04:15:27 -0000

Finally found the solution! It was related to your installation directory and the name of the folder. It has to be in "MiKTeX 2.9" folder (with the exact name), and I have installed in "C:\Program Files\MikTeX 2.9". Then problem solved!

Saw Seow Hui modified a comment on discussion Help

Saw Seow Hui — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 02:43:24 -0000

Hello everyone! I tried to install Miktex 2.9 (for all users) on Windows 10 but unfortunately the operation failed. The error message is shown as attached. I really need to use Miktex for my writing. Please help!

Saw Seow Hui posted a comment on discussion Help

Saw Seow Hui — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 02:40:45 -0000

Lucas Gallindo posted a comment on discussion Help

Lucas Gallindo — Fri, 31 May 2019 12:32:05 -0000

Any solutions?

Dr. Ing. Alberto Maria Marchetti posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Dr. Ing. Alberto Maria Marchetti — Fri, 10 May 2019 11:16:19 -0000

This looks bad, now! On Fri, 10 May 2019 at 12:45, Dr. Ing. Alberto Maria Marchetti paleoalbi@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Repeated the update today: same issue and same dump! Attachments: miktex-taskbar-icon.exe.10360.dmp https://sourceforge.net/p/miktex/discussion/33789/thread/9131ecfca0/e8fa/attachment/miktex-taskbar-icon.exe.10360.dmp (1.2 MB; application/octet-stream) TeXwork doesn't start https://sourceforge.net/p/miktex/discussion/33789/thread/9131ecfca0/?limit=25#e8fa Sent from sourceforge.net...

Dr. Ing. Alberto Maria Marchetti posted a comment on discussion Help

Dr. Ing. Alberto Maria Marchetti — Fri, 10 May 2019 11:02:14 -0000

Please see https://sourceforge.net/p/miktex/discussion/33789/thread/9131ecfca0/

Dr. Ing. Alberto Maria Marchetti posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Dr. Ing. Alberto Maria Marchetti — Fri, 10 May 2019 10:45:25 -0000

Repeated the update today: same issue and same dump!

Dr. Ing. Alberto Maria Marchetti posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Dr. Ing. Alberto Maria Marchetti — Fri, 03 May 2019 14:35:17 -0000

I'm adding the dump that always is produced after the update and the request to restart MikTeX!

Dr. Ing. Alberto Maria Marchetti posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Dr. Ing. Alberto Maria Marchetti — Thu, 02 May 2019 16:33:49 -0000

I updated portable today: everything OK But TeXwork doesn't start and it looks like in loop (Windows 10) Note that task manager says the same for ever... A

Sylvia Kaufmann posted a comment on discussion Help

Sylvia Kaufmann — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:51:01 -0000

I installed (both) newest versions of Miktex (9.10) and TexLive. When I compiled a file containing \usetheme[usetitleprogressbar,usetotalslideindicator]{metropolis} in the preamble and compilation invokes either ./latex/fontspec/fontspec.cfg or ./beamerfontthememetropolis.sty compilation gets stuck. Can anybody help?

Sylvia Kaufmann posted a comment on discussion Help

Sylvia Kaufmann — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:50:57 -0000

kamel posted a comment on discussion Help

kamel — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 12:27:10 -0000

hi Can i have the msi your created from from 2.7? thanks

Michael Efroimsky posted a comment on discussion Help

Michael Efroimsky — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 22:08:25 -0000

Colin, what is "shorter preambles"? A shorter name for the file? Or a shorter name for the folder it is in? On my home desktop everything is working all right. I am wondering if perhaps the firewall (which we have here at work) may interfere with the work of MikTeX. (Probably, not.)

Colin McLarty posted a comment on discussion Help

Colin McLarty — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 23:22:33 -0000

Did you try it in files with shorter preambles, to see if something in the preamble was causing it? Colin On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 6:17 PM Michael Efroimsky michael1812@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Today our IT installed the newest version of MiKTeX on my laptop. I have translated into dvi a latex file containing an eps figure. The beginning of my latex file looks like this: \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{epsfig} \usepackage{epsf} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} % \usepackage{amsmath}...

Michael Efroimsky posted a comment on discussion Help

Michael Efroimsky — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 21:18:21 -0000

Today our IT installed the newest version of MiKTeX on my laptop. I have translated into dvi a latex file containing an eps figure. The beginning of my latex file looks like this: \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{epsfig} \usepackage{epsf} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} % \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amsthm} \usepackage{amssymb, latexsym, amsmath} \usepackage{float} \usepackage{enumitem} \usepackage[bottom]{footmisc} \usepackage[makeroom]{cancel}...

OAI modified a comment on discussion Help

OAI — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 00:10:05 -0000

I am using MikTeX 2.9 on Windows 10, with PSPAD editor. I used to have popup window when I compiling a TeX file, so that I know the progress of the compiling and perhaps some error messages. But somehow it disappeared now, the compiling is silent. Anyone know what is wrong?

OAI posted a comment on discussion Help

OAI — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 00:09:19 -0000

I am using MikTeX 2.9 on Windows 10, with PSPAD editor. I used to have popup window when I compiling a TeX file. But somehow it disappeared now. Anyone know what is wrong?

Daniel Royer posted a comment on discussion Help

Daniel Royer — Sat, 03 Feb 2018 21:27:21 -0000

Hello, I upgraded to Miktex latest version and \date doesn't work anymore. Code: \author{Daniel Royer\ Geneva Business School\February 2018} \date{February 2018} \maketitle Miktex: Paragraph ended before \FB@date was complete. \par It worked before the upgrade. Help appreciated. Daniel

Anton Granik modified a comment on discussion Help

Anton Granik — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 13:58:08 -0000

Hello everyone, I updated my Miktex 2.9 a few weeks ago, and since then, when compiling pdf's with pdflatex, images won't show up in the final document. Before, it worked all the time with lots of different formats: jpeg, wmf, etc........... never had any problems. I tried running pdflatex from the command line (normally I use Scientific Workplace or WinEdt), same result. Can anyone help me?

Anton Granik posted a comment on discussion Help

Anton Granik — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 13:30:30 -0000

Hello everyone, I updated my Miktex 2.9 a few weeks ago, and since then, when compiling pdf's with pdflatex, images won't show up in the final document. Before, it worked all the time with lots of different formats: jpeg, wmf, etc........... never had any problems. I tried running pdflatex from the command line (normally I use Scoentific Workplace or WinEdt), same result. Can anyone help me?

neomatrix posted a comment on discussion Help

neomatrix — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 07:11:15 -0000

Yeah! I had solved problems too! find the MikTex Package Manager(Admin) in Windows and find the fontspec package. Uninstall the package and then install it.

Christopher Webster posted a comment on ticket #2608

Christopher Webster — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 21:41:29 -0000

Was this update ever sent out? I'm having the same issue currently.

U_Fischer posted a comment on ticket #2544

U_Fischer — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 13:34:40 -0000

Issues for miktex should now be reported on the github site and not here on sourceforge. That said there is already an issue for the problem and it will be corrected tomorrow: https://github.com/MiKTeX/miktex/issues/27

Katarzyna Klessa posted a comment on ticket #2544

Katarzyna Klessa — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 12:48:19 -0000

The same here. Windows 10, and the same error infromation (I keep being told the remote package repository is outdated). I tested several mirrors, and each time it was the same.

ts91 posted a comment on ticket #2544

ts91 — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 12:21:07 -0000

Also having this issue today.

Aurelien B posted a comment on ticket #2544

Aurelien B — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 12:07:58 -0000

I am having the same issue today. Maybe something to do with daylight saving time again?

Tricolore posted a comment on ticket #2394

Tricolore — Sat, 21 Oct 2017 18:12:22 -0000

I'm also having problems with one package that MiKTeX attempts to install on-the-fly: Unfortunately, the package preprint could not be installed.Please check the log file: C:/Users//AppData/Local/MiKTeX/2.9/miktex/log/pdflatex.log

Tim Hoffmann posted a comment on ticket #2552

Tim Hoffmann — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 19:16:45 -0000

Same here. Changing the package repository helped. Thanks.

Sandie posted a comment on discussion Help

Sandie — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 18:39:04 -0000

I suddenly received an error when updating MiKTeX and wasn't able to typeset. I eventually uinstalled and reinstalled, but I still receive the error. I can click past the error and typeset now, but still incur the error when I update. Screenshot of errow when attempting to install for all users in Program Files. Update.log outputs this when I update: 2017-08-31 13:14:21,146-0500 INFO FileCopyPage - running 'initexmf --mkmaps --mklangs --verbose' 2017-08-31 13:14:21,306-0500 INFO FileCopyPage - initexmf:...

Vincent Belaïche posted a comment on ticket #2627

Vincent Belaïche — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:11:31 -0000

People of fctt (French speaking TeX newsgroup) with older graphicx version don't have the problem. These version are working for them : graphicx [2014/10/28 v1.0g Enhanced LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)] and: Package: graphicx 1999/02/16 v1.0f Enhanced LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR) Package: graphics 2009/02/05 v1.0o Standard LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR) I will try to get an older graphicx on TUG FTP and see what happens. I let you know.

Christian Schenk posted a comment on ticket #2627

Christian Schenk — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 12:18:59 -0000

Yeah, thank you for the info.

Vincent Belaïche posted a comment on ticket #2627

Vincent Belaïche — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 11:39:42 -0000

Hello Christian, I am not sure whether you want to be kept informed of the outcome, or just forget about it. After some discussion on fctt forum, I found that replacing bb by viewport makes it work. Attached is an updated note.tex, you can compare the two (using bb or using viewport) by changing the \ifftrue by \iffalse on line 20.

Christian Schenk posted a comment on ticket #2627

Christian Schenk — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 11:44:37 -0000

Sorry, I can't because I don't have the time to investigate further. The problem could be in the engine (pdfTeX). Or it could be a faulty LaTeX package.

Vincent Belaïche posted a comment on ticket #2627

Vincent Belaïche — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 11:10:58 -0000

Hello, Could you please give me a pointer at the project where to make the report ?

Christian Schenk posted a comment on ticket #2627

Christian Schenk — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 08:38:05 -0000

Thank you for the report. I can reproduce the issue. But I do not agree that this is a MiKTeX-specific bug.

Christian Schenk modified ticket #2627

Christian Schenk — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 08:38:05 -0000

Problems with include graphics of a PDF

Vincent Belaïche created ticket #2627

Vincent Belaïche — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 19:57:39 -0000

Problems with include graphics of a PDF

Christian Schenk posted a comment on ticket #2625

Christian Schenk — Sun, 27 Aug 2017 12:01:02 -0000

I have disabled the creation of links if a TeX engine installs missing packages.

Christian Schenk modified ticket #2625

Christian Schenk — Sun, 27 Aug 2017 12:01:02 -0000

Package installation fails as normal user account

Christian Schenk posted a comment on ticket #2626

Christian Schenk — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 19:03:49 -0000

Click "Next" to proceed. This will resume the wizard.

Christian Schenk modified ticket #2626

Christian Schenk — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 19:03:49 -0000

Update MiKTeX - Repository list

Martin Lenz created ticket #2626

Martin Lenz — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 18:27:11 -0000

Update MiKTeX - Repository list

Christian Schenk modified ticket #2625

Christian Schenk — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 09:48:06 -0000

Package installation fails as normal user account

Christian Ullrich posted a comment on ticket #2625

Christian Ullrich — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 09:26:57 -0000

C:\Users\chris\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9\miktex\bin\x64>mklink /h hardlinktest.exe miktex-pdftex.exe The system cannot find the file specified. C:\Users\chris\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9\miktex\bin\x64>mklink /h hardlinktest.exe "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64\miktex-pdftex.exe" Access is denied. According to procmon, which shows a failed operation named "SetLinkInformation", write access to the target file is required to create a hard link. This makes some sense given the weird implementation...

Christian Schenk posted a comment on ticket #2625

Christian Schenk — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 08:58:54 -0000

Thank you. Then please do the following: open a command-prompt window in the bin directory (C:\Users\chris\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9\miktex\bin\x64) create a hard link: mklink /H hardlinktest.exe miktex-pdftex.exe

Christian Schenk modified ticket #2625

Christian Schenk — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 08:58:54 -0000

Package installation fails as normal user account

Christian Ullrich posted a comment on ticket #2625

Christian Ullrich — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 08:39:49 -0000

If it happened on your system, I do believe you would have found and fixed it already. I will be happy to provide whatever information you need; it would have been more efficient, not to mention polite, to tell me what you need without making me ask.

Christian Schenk modified a comment on ticket #2625

Christian Schenk — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 08:29:02 -0000

I was not able to reproduce this and I have not enough info to help fixing the issue.

Christian Schenk modified ticket #2625

Christian Schenk — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 08:28:07 -0000

Package installation fails as normal user account

Christian Schenk posted a comment on ticket #2625

Christian Schenk — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 08:28:07 -0000

I was not able to reproduce this and I have not enough info.

Christian Schenk modified ticket #2526

Christian Schenk — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 08:22:47 -0000

basic-miktex installer fails at initexmf

Christian Ullrich created ticket #2625

Christian Ullrich — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 04:14:40 -0000

Package installation fails as normal user account

Mast B. posted a comment on ticket #2526

Mast B. — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 22:45:31 -0000

It is indeed created with subst

Christoph Gohlke posted a comment on ticket #2526

Christoph Gohlke — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 20:50:10 -0000

Could it be that drive p: was created with the SUBST command? For me the GetVolumePathNameW function used in PathName::GetMountPoint returns X:\\MikTex\\ instead of X:\\ if drive X: was created with "SUBST X: D:\\Programs" (for example). Then the GetVolumeInformationW function call in Utils::SupportsHardLinks fails with Windows API error 144: The directory is not a subdirectory of the root directory.

Armin Morattab posted a comment on ticket #2623

Armin Morattab — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 17:33:58 -0000

Hello, I have the same issue here. I installed TexStudio, and MiKTeX. Then I tried to install the fonts from here: https://ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/newtx The installation required to copy the newtx.tds.zip file into the TeX tree, (in my case ~/,miktex/texmfs/) and do the following: unzip newtx.tds initexmf --update-fndb initexmf --edit-config-file updmap Since the fonts were not installed properly, I repeade the installation process many times as "sudo" and "arminmor" user. After a while running...

Soeren Zorn posted a comment on discussion Help

Soeren Zorn — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 12:50:50 -0000

https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Mailing%20Lists/#unsubscribe

Phillip M. Feldman posted a comment on discussion Help

Phillip M. Feldman — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 06:33:10 -0000

I've been trying to figure out how to unsubscribe myself. Any advice will be appreciated. On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 1:33 PM, Few few@users.sf.net wrote: I'm running MiKTeX 2.9 on a Windows 7 machine, and using WinEdt 10.2 as an editor. When I PdfLaTeX a 9-page document after making changes there is a 15 to 20 second delay between the very quick appearance in the console of: Program Files/MiKTeX 2.9/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmti10.pfb>

Few posted a comment on discussion Help

Few — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 20:33:15 -0000

I'm running MiKTeX 2.9 on a Windows 7 machine, and using WinEdt 10.2 as an editor. When I PdfLaTeX a 9-page document after making changes there is a 15 to 20 second delay between the very quick appearance in the console of: Program Files/MiKTeX 2.9/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmti10.pfb> Output...

Vincent Belaïche posted a comment on ticket #2624

Vincent Belaïche — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 18:13:27 -0000

BTW, these commands are documented in the pdfTeX users manual. When you do mthelp pdftex, you do not get it, but the miktex-pdftex manual. In this manual it is written « see also mthelp pdftex-a ». However, the mthelp pdftex-a does not find the pdfTeX users manual, and the package manager does not find it either.

Vincent Belaïche posted a comment on ticket #2624

Vincent Belaïche — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 15:18:28 -0000

Great ! Is it released — I mean, if I run the update manager, will I get the fix ?

Christian Schenk posted a comment on ticket #2624

Christian Schenk — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 18:26:09 -0000

Should be okay now...

Christian Schenk modified ticket #2624

Christian Schenk — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 18:26:09 -0000

Problem with \pdfresettimer & \pdfelapsedtime

Vincent Belaïche created ticket #2624

Vincent Belaïche — Sat, 19 Aug 2017 16:15:24 -0000

Problem with \pdfresettimer & \pdfelapsedtime

frank maresco posted a comment on discussion Help

frank maresco — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 16:01:05 -0000

disregard ... i found the error ... i was missing the DST Root CA X3 certificate under TRUSTED ROOT CERTIFICATION AUTHORITIES .... i just exported it from another machine and imported it and all worked

frank maresco posted a comment on discussion Help

frank maresco — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 11:55:43 -0000

Greetings ... having an old problem with the SSH connection error on windows 10 ..... before i had to edit the environmental variables and add these 2 : MIKTEX_MPM_REMOTESERVICE6210=multiplexor MIKTEX_MPM_REMOTESERVICE6100=multiplexor now it doesnt matter if they are entered or not ... still get the SSH connection error msg .... any help much appreciated ... thxs

Jim posted a comment on ticket #345

Jim — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 16:22:36 -0000

Confirmed fixed in 6400 (including the downstream problem of preview in LyX). Thanks!

Christian Schenk posted a comment on ticket #2623

Christian Schenk — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 08:58:11 -0000

I could not reproduce the issue. I would recommend that you recreate the exexutables manually, since they seem to be out of date.

Christian Schenk modified ticket #2623

Christian Schenk — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 08:58:11 -0000

Update fails

Petiard created ticket #2623

Petiard — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 08:19:33 -0000

Update fails

Christian Schenk posted a comment on ticket #2622

Christian Schenk — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 22:59:42 -0000

miktex next hasn't been update yet. I trigger a build tomorrow.

U_Fischer posted a comment on ticket #2622

U_Fischer — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 17:05:35 -0000

Has the fix also been added to miktex next? I don't get any updates there.

Christian Schenk modified ticket #2622

Christian Schenk — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 10:25:01 -0000

shell commands are not executed correctly

Christian Schenk posted a comment on ticket #2622

Christian Schenk — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 10:25:01 -0000

Should be ok now/

clemens posted a comment on discussion Help

clemens — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 21:05:50 -0000

This little example \documentclass{article} \usepackage{gnuplottex} \begin{document} \begin{gnuplot}[terminal=cairolatex, terminaloptions={pdf}] set xr [1 : 2] plot sin(x) w l \end{gnuplot} \end{document} doesn't work after the latest update anymore. Installing a fresh miktex distro without the latest updates produces a fine output. Funny enough, shell escape in principle works as the log shows: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.18 (MiKTeX 2.9.6400 64-bit) (preloaded format=pdflatex 2017.8.11)...

Jelle-Frodo Huisman posted a comment on discussion Help

Jelle-Frodo Huisman — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 19:38:29 -0000

Dear Bernard, I had version 2.6a which was installed on 11 August 2017 (today). I used MiKTeX package manager to uninstall fontspec and reinstall fontspec. Afterwards I seem to have version 2.6c, and LaTeX source now compiles with XeLaTeX. SOLVED. THANKS. Jelle-Frodo Huisman

B.A. posted a comment on discussion Help

B.A. — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 16:45:31 -0000

Le 11/08/2017 à 15:28, Jelle-Frodo Huisman a écrit : I am very new to LaTeX. I would like to start using LaTeX with my familiar Windows fonts, so I included use the fontspec package and compile with xelatex. The below minimal example does not compile with MiKTeX cleanly installed with basic-miktex-2.9.6361-x64 on Windows 8.1 (x64). \documentclass{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \begin{document} Hello World! \end{document} The following error is raised: "fontspec-xetex.sty 3806 Undefined control sequence....

Jelle-Frodo Huisman posted a comment on discussion Help

Jelle-Frodo Huisman — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 13:28:38 -0000

I am very new to LaTeX. I would like to start using LaTeX with my familiar Windows fonts, so I included use the fontspec package and compile with xelatex. The below minimal example does not compile with MiKTeX cleanly installed with basic-miktex-2.9.6361-x64 on Windows 8.1 (x64). \documentclass{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \begin{document} Hello World! \end{document} The following error is raised: "fontspec-xetex.sty 3806 Undefined control sequence. \LaTeX3 error: Erroneous variable...

Christian Schenk modified ticket #2620

Christian Schenk — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 06:51:56 -0000

xetex can't input files with BOM anymore

Christian Schenk posted a comment on ticket #2620

Christian Schenk — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 06:51:56 -0000

Thank you, I have fixed this.

U_Fischer created ticket #2622

U_Fischer — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 14:29:19 -0000

shell commands are not executed correctly

Lasse Jenzen created ticket #2621

Lasse Jenzen — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 12:35:23 -0000

MikTeX Package Manager: Windows API error 87

U_Fischer created ticket #2620

U_Fischer — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 07:06:17 -0000

xetex can't input files with BOM anymore

Christian Schenk modified a comment on ticket #2619

Christian Schenk — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 12:20:08 -0000

It is normal, that initexmf does not produce console output. Since we can run the command at the command-prompt, evidence is growing that this issue falls into the "something is watching MiKTeX and prevents it from doing its job" category. I am afraid I can't help you.

Christian Schenk modified ticket #2619

Christian Schenk — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 12:19:17 -0000

Error Running MiKTeX Update (Admin)

Christian Schenk posted a comment on ticket #2619

Christian Schenk — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 12:19:02 -0000

Gerard posted a comment on ticket #2619

Gerard — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 10:02:36 -0000

Okay, I ran that command at the command prompt (administrator). Nothing happened for a few seconds and then the command prompt reappeared. Is that normal? What, if anything, should I have seen? By the way, this behavior did not happen before the latest update of MiKTeX.