Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-10 Thread David Perry
Yes, I just realized that my example from the fontspec manual was not exactly parallel to the situation I have. However, doing it as Gareth suggests generates all sorts of nasty error messages. I just tried specifying the bold etc. by font file names; no errors, but no bold in the document ei

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-10 Thread Andy Lin
Gareth is right; that is how you use BoldFont. Take a look at the example from the fontspec manual again. It's using the HN-Regular as the bold font because it's heavier than HN-Ultralight. -Andy On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 23:05, David Perry wrote: > >> >>> >>> 2. Can anybody see what is wrong with

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-10 Thread David Perry
On 10/10/2010 5:00 PM, Gareth Hughes wrote: 2. Can anybody see what is wrong with the following? \fontspec[BoldFont={Bergamo Std},ItalicFont={Bergamo Std},BoldItalicFont={Bergamo Std}]{Cardo} Yeah, you just declared the medium, upright font as bold and italic. What you need is \fontspec[Bol

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-10 Thread Alan Munn
On Oct 10, 2010, at 10:48 PM, David Perry wrote: On 10/10/2010 5:31 PM, Alan Munn wrote: On Oct 10, 2010, at 4:26 PM, David Perry wrote: This seems to be my day for font problems. 1. What is the correct way to specify a font in exact point size when running XeLaTeX? (This is for the cov

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-10 Thread David Perry
On 10/10/2010 5:00 PM, Gareth Hughes wrote: I'm not sure that thinking about the point size in absolute terms is all that useful. If the body text is at 12pt, then something that is at 60pt is five times bigger. I would use \addfontfeature{Scale=5} for a single line of text, like a title. Othe

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-10 Thread David Perry
On 10/10/2010 5:31 PM, Alan Munn wrote: On Oct 10, 2010, at 4:26 PM, David Perry wrote: This seems to be my day for font problems. 1. What is the correct way to specify a font in exact point size when running XeLaTeX? (This is for the cover page of a book where \Huge isn't big enough.) The L

Re: [XeTeX] wrong kerning and slow processing with xelatex in texlive 2010

2010-10-10 Thread Vadim Radionov
> Do Cyrillic small capital letters exist? I would have thought they're > typical Latin... Only few cyrillic letter have different capital shapes, probably that's why they are no so popular. Anyway, many perfect modern fonts have them. > I don't have fontspec version 2.x around, but Will wrote th

Re: [XeTeX] wrong kerning and slow processing with xelatex in texlive 2010

2010-10-10 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 11.10.2010 um 00:29 schrieb Vadim Radionov: I compiled the same source with 2 instances of xelatex, the one from texlive 2010 works not as i expected I don't have fontspec version 2.x around, but Will wrote that he changed many things, in xltxtra as well. Could you compare the definiti

Re: [XeTeX] wrong kerning and slow processing with xelatex in texlive 2010

2010-10-10 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 11.10.2010 um 00:29 schrieb Vadim Radionov: \textsc{та} Do Cyrillic small capital letters exist? I would have thought they're typical Latin... -- Greetings Pete It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. ---

Re: [XeTeX] wrong kerning and slow processing with xelatex in texlive 2010

2010-10-10 Thread Vadim Radionov
Hi, Peter, Sorry for annoying citing (I was not sure how to post to the same thread rather then to start a new one, so i replied to my own messafe) and whitespace. > Instead of citing the whole old message it could have been interesting to > see the different sources which lead to so different ou

Re: [XeTeX] wrong kerning and slow processing with xelatex in texlive 2010

2010-10-10 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 10.10.2010 um 21:48 schrieb Vadim Radionov: What can be done to investigate and fix it? Instead of citing the whole old message it could have been interesting to see the different sources which lead to so different outputs... BTW, \listfiles can be a nice part of a preamble. It also

Re: [XeTeX] Primes and unicode-math.

2010-10-10 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 04:19:25PM -0400, Cole Leahy wrote: > This is more or less a continuation of the thread at http://tug.org/pipermail/ > xetex/2010-October/018741.html. Unfortunately, I don't know how to include > this > message in that thread, since I don't actually receive email from this

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-10 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 10.10.2010 um 22:26 schrieb David Perry: he LaTeX command \fontsize{60}{66pt} does not work Did you add \selectfont? -- Greetings Pete What's the difference between OS X and Vista? Microsoft employees are excited about OS X… -- Sub

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-10 Thread Alan Munn
On Oct 10, 2010, at 4:26 PM, David Perry wrote: This seems to be my day for font problems. 1. What is the correct way to specify a font in exact point size when running XeLaTeX? (This is for the cover page of a book where \Huge isn't big enough.) The LaTeX command \fontsize{60}{66pt} does

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-10 Thread Gareth Hughes
David Perry wrote: > This seems to be my day for font problems. > > 1. What is the correct way to specify a font in exact point size when > running XeLaTeX? (This is for the cover page of a book where \Huge > isn't big enough.) The LaTeX command \fontsize{60}{66pt} does not work > -- it comes ou

[XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-10 Thread David Perry
This seems to be my day for font problems. 1. What is the correct way to specify a font in exact point size when running XeLaTeX? (This is for the cover page of a book where \Huge isn't big enough.) The LaTeX command \fontsize{60}{66pt} does not work -- it comes out much smaller than 60 pts,

[XeTeX] Primes and unicode-math.

2010-10-10 Thread Cole Leahy
This is more or less a continuation of the thread at http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2010-October/018741.html. Unfortunately, I don't know how to include this message in that thread, since I don't actually receive email from this list. Please excuse me. Anyway, Khaled's suggestion from that thread w

Re: [XeTeX] wrong kerning and slow processing with xelatex in texlive 2010

2010-10-10 Thread Vadim Radionov
Hello again, I would be very grateful if someone help me with this problem. Two examples of (presumably) right (test1.pdf) and wrong (test.pdf) kerning are attached. What can be done to investigate and fix it? Thank you in advance Vadim On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Vadim Radionov wrote: > D

Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem for dialogue poetry

2010-10-10 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 10/10/2010 17:26, Gareth Hughes a écrit : Paul Isambert wrote: That one is harder. Line number are no simple matter with traditional TeX. Question: does bidipoem starts a new paragraph with every line? Then something might be doable with \everypar. Just try this in the poem environment: \eve

Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem for dialogue poetry

2010-10-10 Thread Gareth Hughes
Paul Isambert wrote: > That one is harder. Line number are no simple matter with traditional TeX. > Question: does bidipoem starts a new paragraph with every line? Then > something might be doable with \everypar. > Just try this in the poem environment: \everypar{test}. If ``test'' > appears at the

Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem for dialogue poetry

2010-10-10 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 10/10/2010 16:51, Gareth Hughes a écrit : Does anyone have any thoughts how line numbers might be handled in this bidipoem environment? None of the usual packages that provide line numbering play nicely, and I can't work out from the code how best to do it. That one is harder. Line number

Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem for dialogue poetry

2010-10-10 Thread Gareth Hughes
Paul Isambert wrote: > Le 10/10/2010 14:16, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) a écrit : >> Paul, in which dialect(s) of TeX does \quitvmode exist ? >> >> Paul Isambert wrote: >> >>> \def\persona#1{% >>> \quitvmode\llap{\hbox to {#1\hfil}}% >>> } >> > > Oh, right. > Gareth, you should use \leavev

Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem for dialogue poetry

2010-10-10 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 10/10/2010 14:16, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) a écrit : Paul, in which dialect(s) of TeX does \quitvmode exist ? Paul Isambert wrote: \def\persona#1{% \quitvmode\llap{\hbox to {#1\hfil}}% } Oh, right. Gareth, you should use \leavevmode instead of \quitvmode, which is a pdfTeX pri

Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem for dialogue poetry

2010-10-10 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Paul, in which dialect(s) of TeX does \quitvmode exist ? Paul Isambert wrote: \def\persona#1{% \quitvmode\llap{\hbox to {#1\hfil}}% } ** Phil. -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem for dialogue poetry

2010-10-10 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 10/10/2010 00:48, Gareth Hughes a écrit : Gareth Hughes wrote: As you can see from my attached example, the persona is included as a part of the first hemistich, but to make the lines look nice it is also included in the following three hemistiches within \phantom{} commands. I also need to