Re: [XeTeX] fontspec location problems in MiKTeX

2010-10-05 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 10/5/2010 3:15 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: Make sure you don't have to different versions of "MS Mincho" font accessible to XeTeX (possiply in different formats) as this is known to cause this kind of issues. Indeed. For some reason there's was TTC as well as a TTF for it... TTF deleted, co

Re: [XeTeX] parallel lines for multiple text versions

2010-10-05 Thread Andy Lin
You can take a look at the gb4e package (or its predecessor covington). It was designed for glosses in linguistics, but the mechanism might suit your needs. It takes up to 3 lines of input, reads the first word (or group) of each line, puts those in a box, then reads the next word and puts those in

Re: [XeTeX] Very nasty bug with accented greek capitals in some fonts (TL 2010)

2010-10-05 Thread proteus
Replace the ISO-8859-7 characters with utf-8 and see what happens. On Tuesday 05 October 2010, Nikos Platis wrote: > Consider the following minimal file: > > --- > \documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article} > \usepackage{fontspec} > \setmainfont{Candara} > \begin{document} > ά Ά έ Έ ή Ή Î

Re: [XeTeX] hyperref broken??

2010-10-05 Thread David J. Perry
Hi Will, See the attached. This is a version of a file that I had on my machine upstate (I kept the preamble, just removed the actual text). This file would not compile last weekend, giving me the same errors that I encountered while working on my big book project. It compiles on my machin

Re: [XeTeX] Very nasty bug with accented greek capitals in some fonts (TL 2010)

2010-10-05 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 05.10.2010 um 11:59 schrieb Nikos Platis: > Consider the following minimal file: > > --- > \documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article} > \usepackage{fontspec} > \setmainfont{Candara} > \begin{document} > ά Ά έ Έ ή Ή ί Ί ϊ Ϊ ΐ ό Ό ύ Ύ ϋ Ϋ ΰ ώ Ώ > \end{document} > --- > > Using a ful

Re: [XeTeX] fontspec location problems in MiKTeX

2010-10-05 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 02:15:42PM -0700, Michiel Kamermans wrote: > I tried updating to MiKTeX 2.9 beta, to see if that solved the > problem - everything now at least resolves to the right location, > but fontspec is exhibiting a different problem. Take the following > UTF-8 encoded .tex file: >

Re: [XeTeX] fontspec location problems in MiKTeX

2010-10-05 Thread Michiel Kamermans
I tried updating to MiKTeX 2.9 beta, to see if that solved the problem - everything now at least resolves to the right location, but fontspec is exhibiting a different problem. Take the following UTF-8 encoded .tex file: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont{MS Mincho} \beg

Re: [XeTeX] optical sizes not found

2010-10-05 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 10:51:21PM +0200, Roland Kuhn wrote: > Am 05.10.2010 22:41, schrieb Khaled Hosny: > >On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 10:32:51PM +0200, Roland Kuhn wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >>a few days back I asked about a problem with optical font sizes: for > >>me, the correct fonts are not automa

Re: [XeTeX] optical sizes not found

2010-10-05 Thread Roland Kuhn
Am 05.10.2010 22:41, schrieb Khaled Hosny: On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 10:32:51PM +0200, Roland Kuhn wrote: Hi, a few days back I asked about a problem with optical font sizes: for me, the correct fonts are not automatically selected. I can rule out a fontspec bug, since the problem exists also

Re: [XeTeX] optical sizes not found

2010-10-05 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 10:32:51PM +0200, Roland Kuhn wrote: > Hi, > > a few days back I asked about a problem with optical font sizes: for > me, the correct fonts are not automatically selected. I can rule out > a fontspec bug, since the problem exists also in plain XeTeX: > > \font\1="Kepler S

[XeTeX] optical sizes not found

2010-10-05 Thread Roland Kuhn
Hi, a few days back I asked about a problem with optical font sizes: for me, the correct fonts are not automatically selected. I can rule out a fontspec bug, since the problem exists also in plain XeTeX: \font\1="Kepler Std" at 9pt\1 Hallo Welt! \font\2="Kepler Std" at 12pt\2 Hallo Welt! \fo

Re: [XeTeX] Prime + Unicode-math

2010-10-05 Thread Kamal Abdali
Thanks Will and Khaled for explaining the problem. Kamal On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 04:12, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 06:37:07PM -0400, Kamal Abdali wrote: > > Here's a related problem. > > > > The math symbols in XITS seem rather small. > > Because you are using the text font; XI

Re: [XeTeX] Very nasty bug with accented greek capitals in some fonts (TL 2010)

2010-10-05 Thread Alexey Kryukov
On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:53:44 +0200 Tobias Schoel wrote: > I can confirm this behaviour. Linux Libertine works ok. This seems to > be a font bug. I believe this is not a bug but rather the intended behavior. Since Greek accented capitals are normally used only in titlecase, some font designers map

[XeTeX] history of TeX (was: XeTeX in lshort)

2010-10-05 Thread Janusz S. Bień
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 Peter Dyballa wrote: > Am 05.10.2010 um 12:46 schrieb Dominik Wujastyk: > >> This is completely wrong, and anachronistic. SGML was born long >> after TeX >> and LaTeX. > > You probably mean that ISO standard on SGML from 1986 (8879). There is > none for any TeX dialect... >

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-05 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 05.10.2010 um 12:46 schrieb Dominik Wujastyk: This is completely wrong, and anachronistic. SGML was born long after TeX and LaTeX. You probably mean that ISO standard on SGML from 1986 (8879). There is none for any TeX dialect... William W. Tunnicliffe had the idea of SGML at least

Re: [XeTeX] Very nasty bug with accented greek capitals in some fonts (TL 2010)

2010-10-05 Thread Tobias Schoel
I can confirm this behaviour. Linux Libertine works ok. This seems to be a font bug. Am 05.10.2010 11:59, schrieb Nikos Platis: Consider the following minimal file: --- \documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont{Candara} \begin{document} ά Ά έ Έ ή Ή ί Ί ϊ

Re: [XeTeX] arabxetex vs. xepersian

2010-10-05 Thread Fr. Michael Gilmary
Ross Moore wrote: There is a big compatibility problem with this package, which really should be fixed before it gets distributed widely. The choices of some of the macro-names are rather unfortunate, since they clash with existing, long-standing uses for those names. I would suggest chang

[XeTeX] fontspec location problems in MiKTeX

2010-10-05 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi, just updated MiKTeX 2.8, and then tries to download it from repository location tex/xetex/fontspec - it doesn't see it there, and then tries to download it from an online repository. However, fontspec is now located in tex/latex/fontspec... is this a problem with MiKTeX or is it a problem

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-05 Thread Dominik Wujastyk
On 4 October 2010 12:25, Keith J. Schultz wrote: > >TeX was developed as a subset of SGML or if you wish clone, variant, > etc. > This is completely wrong, and anachronistic. SGML was born long after TeX and LaTeX. It is true that LaTeX's syntax owes a debt to Scribe (as Lamport says so

[XeTeX] Very nasty bug with accented greek capitals in some fonts (TL 2010)

2010-10-05 Thread Nikos Platis
Consider the following minimal file: --- \documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont{Candara} \begin{document} ά Ά έ Έ ή Ή ί Ί ϊ Ϊ ΐ ό Ό ύ Ύ ϋ Ϋ ΰ ώ Ώ \end{document} --- Using a fully updated TL2010 it produces the following, obviously wrong, output:

Re: [XeTeX] Prime + Unicode-math

2010-10-05 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 06:37:07PM -0400, Kamal Abdali wrote: > Here's a related problem. > > The math symbols in XITS seem rather small. Because you are using the text font; XITS, not the math font; XITS Math, the former will give you primes that are suitable for text since they are already redu