Re: [XeTeX] Checking for existence of font feature

2010-08-11 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 04:53:16AM +0100, Michael Lynch wrote: > On 11/08/2010 22:54, Khaled Hosny wrote: > >On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 09:39:07PM +0100, Michael Lynch wrote: > >>On 11/08/2010 20:54, Michael Lynch wrote: > >>>Hello all, > >>> > >>>I'm trying to test for the existence of an OpenType fo

Re: [XeTeX] Checking for existence of font feature

2010-08-11 Thread Michael Lynch
On 11/08/2010 22:54, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 09:39:07PM +0100, Michael Lynch wrote: On 11/08/2010 20:54, Michael Lynch wrote: Hello all, I'm trying to test for the existence of an OpenType font feature before it's used in a document. I want a command that will tr

Re: [XeTeX] Checking for existence of font feature

2010-08-11 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
> \font\a="Times New Roman:+smcp" at 12pt > > doesn't register as causing any problems, even though this call doesn't > produce anything different to > > \font\a="Times New Roman" at 12pt This doesn't solve your problems, but generally speaking, enabling a feature that's not present in the fon

Re: [XeTeX] xelatex, texshop, Chinese question marks

2010-08-11 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, If I use Kochi Mincho (a font for Japanese), the first two characters show up correctly. The last character is Chinese-only. Judging from your post, I think the font that you are using (STkai) does not have glyphs for the characters you are requesting. So you should try another font. I am s

Re: [XeTeX] Checking for existence of font feature

2010-08-11 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 09:39:07PM +0100, Michael Lynch wrote: > On 11/08/2010 20:54, Michael Lynch wrote: > >Hello all, > > > >I'm trying to test for the existence of an OpenType font feature before > >it's used in a document. > > > >I want a command that will transparently emulate an acceptable >

[XeTeX] Checking for existence of font feature

2010-08-11 Thread Michael Lynch
Hello all, I'm trying to test for the existence of an OpenType font feature before it's used in a document. I want a command that will transparently emulate an acceptable alternative in the event that the feature doesn't exist, whilst logging the problem in the log file. Since the command is

[XeTeX] xelatex, texshop, Chinese question marks

2010-08-11 Thread Joshua Hou
Hello! I am trying to get Chinese in my xelatex document. Based on the instructions I've found here: http://www.reed.edu/cis/help/LaTeX/language.html#cjk, I am using the following sourcecode: \documentclass[11pt]{article} \usepackage[cm-default]{fontspec} \begin{document} Some plain old text. An

Re: [XeTeX] Checking for existence of font feature

2010-08-11 Thread Michael Lynch
On 11/08/2010 20:54, Michael Lynch wrote: Hello all, I'm trying to test for the existence of an OpenType font feature before it's used in a document. I want a command that will transparently emulate an acceptable alternative in the event that the feature doesn't exist, whilst logging the proble

[XeTeX] unicode-math (I think) redefines \slash

2010-08-11 Thread Joel C. Salomon
Using all packages as of TL ’10 pretest. At one point in my document I needed an optional line-break after a slash, but blah blah overfull line UNIX\slash Linux didn’t break. Inserting the line \show\slash showed me that \slash was now simply the character ‘/’. Even re-defining i

Re: [XeTeX] problem with flashcards, polyglossia and RTL-languages

2010-08-11 Thread Fabian Rieger
Am 29.07.2010 03:21, schrieb Vafa Khalighi: having \documentclass[avery5371,frame,grid]{flashcards} \begin{document} \begin{flashcard}{texttexttext} texttexttext \end{flashcard} \end{document} as my document and running either pdflatex or xelatex, I get this error: ! Package geometry Error: \p