Re: [XeTeX] Fake italics for some characters only

2018-12-04 Thread Alan Munn
Can you provide a bit more detail? Maybe a small example document? Alan Benct Philip Jonsson wrote: I have a somewhat unusual problem. In a document produced using XeLaTeX I need to use four Unicode letters with scarce font support in italicized words and passages but the font which I have to

Re: [XeTeX] xetex and the unicode bidirectional algorithm.

2013-12-05 Thread Alan Munn
information, etc.: >http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > > > > > -- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > > > -- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] Graphite font feature changes in Gentium Plus and XeTeX

2013-01-06 Thread Alan Munn
On Jan 6, 2013, at 4:53 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 05:13:56PM -0500, Alan Munn wrote: >> Hi everyone. >> >> The most recent version of the Gentium font >> http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=Gentium_download >>

[XeTeX] Graphite font feature changes in Gentium Plus and XeTeX

2013-01-05 Thread Alan Munn
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Re: [XeTeX] genealogical trees

2012-01-28 Thread Alan Munn
rked out example using tikz-qtree: http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/23241/2693 Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] Ftuture state of XeTeX in TeXLive

2011-10-28 Thread Alan Munn
t address the needs of many XeLaTeX users at the moment. Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] IPA characters

2011-10-12 Thread Alan Munn
sreader.html > .eml?!? > → http://www.ehow.com/how_5829197_open-_eml-files.html > Spelling?!? > → http://www.tcl-sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/hendrik/spelling.php > > > -- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tu

Re: [XeTeX] Polyglossia "broken"?

2011-10-02 Thread Alan Munn
ntrol whether he is too busy to upload the fixed version. Alan > > Dominik > > On 2 October 2011 18:21, Alan Munn wrote: > On Oct 2, 2011, at 7:36 AM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote: > > > there seem to be two git versions of polyglossia, i.e., it's been forked. > >

Re: [XeTeX] Polyglossia "broken"?

2011-10-02 Thread Alan Munn
count and then notify the owner of the code, who is able to incorporate the changes in that fork into the main branch of the code if the change is accepted. So Philipp's fork is the result of his having proposed the xkeyval fix. Alan > > > > On 1 October 2011 23:52, Alan Mun

Re: [XeTeX] Polyglossia "broken"?

2011-10-01 Thread Alan Munn
On Oct 1, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Alan Munn wrote: > On Oct 1, 2011, at 1:23 PM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote: > >> >> If anyone knows how to work git (I use it so rarely that I always have to >> start from scratch) then feel free to add this to the git hub. If anyone >> w

Re: [XeTeX] Polyglossia "broken"?

2011-10-01 Thread Alan Munn
atch) then feel free to add this to the git hub. If anyone > wishes to package this for CTAN, please do so. I've added the change to the git version. The question is whether Françcois (or the other person with commit permissions has the time to merge the chang

Re: [XeTeX] polyglossia and french

2011-09-24 Thread Alan Munn
On Sep 24, 2011, at 8:07 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 22:55, Alan Munn wrote: >> On Sep 24, 2011, at 3:34 PM, rhin...@postmail.ch wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>>When typesetting documents in french with polyglossia, >>> a space is a

Re: [XeTeX] polyglossia and french

2011-09-24 Thread Alan Munn
r characters, redefine this command by commenting out the lines that correspond to spacing that you wish to keep, and then issue the command to turn of the uncommented ones. If you're doing this in the preamble of your document, make sure the code is surrounded b

Re: [XeTeX] Longtable package

2011-09-13 Thread Alan Munn
pert on RTL typesetting but after all, I am still a > human and can not do/solve everything just myself. Indeed. The number of packages bidi already supports is impressive. -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List infor

Re: [XeTeX] Longtable package

2011-09-12 Thread Alan Munn
كوله \\ > ١& راست \\ > > \end{longtable} > > \end{document} > > Thanks, > > Heba > > > -- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] rtl Longtable package

2011-08-25 Thread Alan Munn
ly >> understood that list subscribers try very hard to be helpful, and that any >> help offered comes at the expense of the one helping. > > I agree : I felt that Alan's parenthetical response was > not really called for. Fair enough. My apologies to the Heba. I h

Re: [XeTeX] rtl Longtable package

2011-08-25 Thread Alan Munn
amp; سيكاه \\ > ٧& عربة كردي \\ > ٦& نيم كردي — (نهاوند) \\ > ٥& دوكاه \\ > ٤& تيك زير كوله \\ > ٣& عربة زير كوله \\ > ٢& تيم زير كوله \\ > ١& راست \\ > > \end{longtable} > > \end{document} > > Thanks, > > > > -- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] Contextual Ligature Problems with OT Tamil Font Converted to AAT

2011-06-19 Thread Alan Munn
ch specifically mentioned the two font technologies in the context of the Mac OS would be misinterpreted seems miniscule. This is a useful and friendly list. Let's keep it that way. Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] Persian verus Farsi

2011-06-10 Thread Alan Munn
>>> http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Languages/persian_not_farsi.htm >> >> Well, yes : but is it any worse than the Americans describing >> their language as "English" ?! At least the French-speaking >> residents of Québec have the decency to call their lang

[XeTeX] Polyglossia, babel and xelatex

2011-05-11 Thread Alan Munn
arify exactly when babel should or shouldn't be used with xelatex? Can someone clarify when polyglossia is the only solution (if that's ever the case)? Thanks Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List i

Re: [XeTeX] xelatex and table of contents

2011-05-11 Thread Alan Munn
On May 11, 2011, at 4:45 PM, Ross Moore wrote: > Hi François, Alan and others. > > On 12/05/2011, at 3:05 AM, Alan Munn wrote: > >> On May 11, 2011, at 11:41 AM, François Patte wrote: >> >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >&

Re: [XeTeX] xelatex and table of contents

2011-05-11 Thread Alan Munn
On May 11, 2011, at 11:41 AM, François Patte wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Le 11/05/2011 16:42, Alan Munn a écrit : > > Thanks for answering. > >>> \usepackage[frenchb]{babel} >>> \frenchbsetup{AutoSpaceFootnotes=false} &

Re: [XeTeX] xelatex and table of contents

2011-05-11 Thread Alan Munn
that advice might not be accurate for xelatex. Polyglossia would be the way forward here, too.) Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] unicode characters not showing in xelatex

2011-04-19 Thread Alan Munn
c). From the docs: "Mapping enables a XeTeX text-mapping scheme, shown in Example 41. Using the tex-text mapping is also equivalent to writing Ligatures=TeX. The use of the latter syntax is recommended for better compatibility with LuaTEX documents." Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com

Re: [XeTeX] when one needs more than XeTeX+OT fonts? (was: Text output garbled..)

2011-04-15 Thread Alan Munn
etex was designed with multilingual support in mind. > (I promise, won't ask much more about that, it's just for a start if I decide > there's anywhere to go with it /for me/!) If you find xetex doing what you want, you have no reasons to change. -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] xetex

2011-04-09 Thread Alan Munn
directional writing, as once > TeX--XeT did. > > Best, > Paul > > > Le 10/04/2011 00:37, marc rousseau a écrit : >> Hi >> I'd like to know what does the letter in xetex stand for ? >> thx -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com ---

Re: [XeTeX] hypertext index

2011-03-09 Thread Alan Munn
text the page numbers should be. > > > > The \hyperlink command works in the opposite direction. It makes the word > > (in place) klickable and points *away* from there, whereas the \index > > command creates something that points *towards* the place where that > > command was used. > > > > Hope

Re: [XeTeX] hypertext index

2011-03-09 Thread Alan Munn
gt; > > Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 08:47:57 -0500 > > From: maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu > > To: xetex@tug.org > > Subject: Re: [XeTeX] hypertext index > > > > On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 23:12:54 -0500, Alan Munn wrote: > > > I'm no expert on this, so I'd best stop wh

Re: [XeTeX] hypertext index

2011-03-08 Thread Alan Munn
On Mar 8, 2011, at 11:04 PM, Mike Maxwell wrote: > On 3/8/2011 10:54 PM, Alan Munn wrote: >> On Mar 8, 2011, at 9:28 PM, Mike Maxwell wrote: >> >>> On 3/8/2011 9:01 PM, Alan Munn wrote: >>>> On Mar 8, 2011, at 8:42 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote: >>>&g

Re: [XeTeX] hypertext index

2011-03-08 Thread Alan Munn
On Mar 8, 2011, at 9:28 PM, Mike Maxwell wrote: > On 3/8/2011 9:01 PM, Alan Munn wrote: >> On Mar 8, 2011, at 8:42 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote: >>> On Mar 8, 2011, at 6:49 PM, houda araj wrote: >>>> ... Is it possible to construct an hypertext index using latex or >

Re: [XeTeX] hypertext index

2011-03-08 Thread Alan Munn
Many thanks >> Houda > > Howdy, > > I think if you include the hyperref package (\usepackage{hyperref}) that just > happens. Put it as the last package loaded. Not really with xelatex. For that you need xindy, but

Re: [XeTeX] Loading a Font Family from a Local File

2011-03-08 Thread Alan Munn
mmand to load them would use: \fontspec [Path = fonts/, UprightFont = *-Roman, ItalicFont = *-Italic ] {MyFont} etc. You don't need to use the `\fontspec` command specifically. Any other font selection command from `fontspec`

Re: [XeTeX] enlarged characters

2011-02-05 Thread Alan Munn
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Re: [XeTeX] Error with \newfontfamily

2011-01-18 Thread Alan Munn
On Jan 18, 2011, at 12:26 PM, Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote: > Alan Munn wrote: > > >> I've encountered a weird error with \newfontfamily. What am I doing wrong? >> -Alan >> >> Minimal example: >> >> % !TEX TS-program = XeLaTeX >

Re: [XeTeX] Error with \newfontfamily

2011-01-18 Thread Alan Munn
On Jan 18, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote: > > On Jan 18, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Alan Munn wrote: > >> I've encountered a weird error with \newfontfamily. What am I doing wrong? >> -Alan >> >> Minimal example: >> >> % !TEX

[XeTeX] Error with \newfontfamily

2011-01-18 Thread Alan Munn
d2009/10/30 v1.6 Font defs for Latin Modern xunicode.sty2010/11/06 v0.96 provides access to latin accents and many othe r characters in Unicode lower plane fontspec.cfg -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List infor

Re: [XeTeX] Protecting pdfpages \includepdf against broken PDF

2011-01-14 Thread Alan Munn
erdiek wrote: > * Or run the file through pdftk to generate a fixed pdf file: >pdftk matrix-broken.pdf cat output matrix-fixed.pdf Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] Externalizing PGF graphics - page size incorrect

2010-12-20 Thread Alan Munn
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Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX and beamer

2010-12-14 Thread Alan Munn
end{frame} Hi Yves, Unfortunately the multimedia package (which is like the movie15 package) uses pdf specials and is only useable with pdflatex and not xelatex. Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List informat

Re: [XeTeX] Combined \textsubscript and unicode character does not work.

2010-11-22 Thread Alan Munn
font encodings eu1lmr.fd2009/10/30 v1.6 Font defs for Latin Modern xunicode.sty2010/05/18 v0.95 provides access to latin accents and many othe r characters in Unicode lower plane fontspec.cfg *** -- Alan Munn am...@gm

[XeTeX] xunicode and \textlbrackdbl

2010-11-14 Thread Alan Munn
icode until I discovered that in the fonts I was using they're in Misc. Math- A.) Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] How to specify a strict leading space with XeTeX/fontspec and Memoir class?

2010-11-08 Thread Alan Munn
mes:letterspace=3" at 15pt This is really plain XeTeX syntax not XeLaTeX syntax; check the fontspec manual for the latex version. (although you don't need this for what you want to do.) Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscri

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

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-10 Thread Alan Munn
our second problem. Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] parallel lines for multiple text versions

2010-10-07 Thread Alan Munn
ink that's been done yet. The glossing macros aren't yet publicly distributed, I'm afraid, but I'm sure that John would be willing to share a copy if you e-mail him. Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions,

Re: [XeTeX] parallel lines for multiple text versions

2010-10-06 Thread Alan Munn
gb4e, make sure you turn off the \automath function, which allows you to use _ and ^ in text mode by changing their catcodes. This causes many things to break if you don't know what you're doing, and it induces a particularly nasty interaction with fontspe

Re: [XeTeX] word breaking in languages like telugu, sanskrit

2010-10-03 Thread Alan Munn
only version `2008/08/09 v1.18 Advanced font selection for XeLaTeX' is available. ! Undefined control sequence. l.21 \ExplSyntaxOn -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/m

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-02 Thread Alan Munn
e), it any previous version of Word certainly doesn't. TeX engines are currently striving to achieving Word's level of quality. Now you're starting to sound like a troll, (even though I know you're not.) Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-29 Thread Alan Munn
;t involve even knowing what the command line is. TeXWorks is ideal for that. Cross-platform? Even better. Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-29 Thread Alan Munn
On Sep 29, 2010, at 6:53 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 06:42:42PM -0400, Alan Munn wrote: On Sep 29, 2010, at 5:59 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote: Am 29.09.2010 um 23:40 schrieb Philipp Stephani: reality is approximately as follows: Users who read beginner documents such as

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-29 Thread Alan Munn
ience is that they're really good at updating their Facebook status, but things deteriorate quickly from there, exactly as Philipp describes. And I deal with a broad range of students at a major US research university. Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-28 Thread Alan Munn
ur commute is long, it's true, but if it's short, it really doesn't make a difference. There are so many other ways we can save/waste time, the idea that using a mouse vs. a keyboard is one of them is really a bit of a stretch. -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -

Re: [XeTeX] manyfoot.sty problems after update to MacTex 2010

2010-09-22 Thread Alan Munn
t changed presumably can't be the culprit. That might help narrow it down to a few packages, in which case you could then try to create a minimal document that causes the problem. Without doing that, it's quite hard to track these sorts of things. Al

Re: [XeTeX] Extra trailing space in IPA font with xltxtra

2010-09-22 Thread Alan Munn
ECkit mapping to CTAN. Is it complete, or are there other things that would need to be added to it? Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] manyfoot.sty problems after update to MacTex 2010

2010-09-22 Thread Alan Munn
rg/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] If font under fontspec

2010-09-20 Thread Alan Munn
, mostly kerning. I recently asked the same question here and got a bunch of responses, many more than I thought my simple question would elicit: <http://www.mail-archive.com/xetex@tug.org/msg01699.html> Alan -- Alan Munn am...@g

Re: [XeTeX] Extra trailing space in IPA font with xltxtra

2010-09-20 Thread Alan Munn
- Jeremy S. Anderson -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] Multiple citation styles in a single document

2010-09-19 Thread Alan Munn
though the two are designed to work together.) So you can still use your existing bib file along with bibtex to do the sorting etc. I mention this, because especially when using XeLaTeX, there's lots of interest in using biber

Re: [XeTeX] Let me get it straight...

2010-09-18 Thread Alan Munn
On Sep 18, 2010, at 4:43 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote: On Sep 18, 2010, at 2:01 PM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote: Looking at the file xltxtra.sty that is current as of today in TeXlive 2010 (version 2010/06/03 v0.5d) and grepping it for "Require", we find that it includes the following commands: \

Re: [XeTeX] Numbering in Devanāgarī while using X eTeX

2010-09-18 Thread Alan Munn
. I think this is part of the language options available in the polyglossia package, but I don't know much more than that. Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/ma

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation "initiative"

2010-09-08 Thread Alan Munn
c documentation, but the problem is more general as we think of making any XeLaTeX documentation more general itself. Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] command line options for xelatex?

2010-09-05 Thread Alan Munn
On Sep 5, 2010, at 7:23 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote: On Sep 5, 2010, at 6:18 PM, Alan Munn wrote: What command line options does xelatex allow? Is it more or less the same as for pdflatex with respect to things like output- directory, shell-escape etc.? I don't seem to have a man pag

[XeTeX] command line options for xelatex?

2010-09-05 Thread Alan Munn
What command line options does xelatex allow? Is it more or less the same as for pdflatex with respect to things like output-directory, shell-escape etc.? I don't seem to have a man page for it (TeXLive 2009 on Mac OS.) Thanks Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gm

Re: [XeTeX] Another tipa/xunicode puzzle: interaction with array.sty?

2010-08-31 Thread Alan Munn
wrote: Hi Alan, On 31/08/2010, at 5:36 AM, Alan Munn wrote: On Aug 30, 2010, at 3:33 PM, Ross Moore wrote: Why does the same code work with the IPA environment using tipa.sty and regular latex? There you are using a font that has the TIPA characters in regular ASCII positions. The chara

Re: [XeTeX] Another tipa/xunicode puzzle: interaction with array.sty?

2010-08-30 Thread Alan Munn
On Aug 30, 2010, at 3:33 PM, Ross Moore wrote: Hi Alan, On 31/08/2010, at 2:12 AM, Alan Munn wrote: Hi again, I've encountered another puzzle. % !TEX TS-program = XeLaTeX \newcolumntype{I}{>{\begin{ipa}[}l<{]\end{ipa}}} \begin{document} \begin{ipa}[PoP]\end{ipa} \begin{tabu

Re: [XeTeX] Another tipa/xunicode puzzle: interaction with array.sty?

2010-08-30 Thread Alan Munn
On Aug 30, 2010, at 12:12 PM, Alan Munn wrote: Hi again, I've encountered another puzzle. % !TEX TS-program = XeLaTeX \listfiles \documentclass{article} \usepackage{xltxtra} \usepackage{array} \newfontfamily{\ipafont}{Doulos SIL} \def\useTIPAfont{\ipafont} \newenvironment{ipa}{% \let\

[XeTeX] Another tipa/xunicode puzzle: interaction with array.sty?

2010-08-30 Thread Alan Munn
lumntype or explicitly encoded into the column) specification fails to do the correct TIPA mapping. Enclosing the character in braces solves the problem, but this doesn't seem ideal. Any suggestions? Thanks Alan -- Alan Mu

Re: [XeTeX] Checking if a font exists

2010-08-30 Thread Alan Munn
at I would prefer to use, especially since I have no knowledge of how Windows machines work... Thanks again to everyone. Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] xunicode, tipa (again) plus amsmath

2010-08-30 Thread Alan Munn
Hi Ross, On Aug 29, 2010, at 4:40 PM, Ross Moore wrote: On 30/08/2010, at 3:45 AM, Alan Munn wrote: Hi, a while ago, Ulrike posted an nice way to allow legacy tipa code to be used with xelatex. Unfortunately I've encountered a problem: it doesn't work inside math mode. Is ther

Re: [XeTeX] xunicode, tipa (again) plus amsmath

2010-08-29 Thread Alan Munn
On Aug 29, 2010, at 2:18 PM, George N. White III wrote: On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Alan Munn wrote: Hi, a while ago, Ulrike posted an nice way to allow legacy tipa code to be used with xelatex. Unfortunately I've encountered a problem: it doesn't work inside math mode.

[XeTeX] xunicode, tipa (again) plus amsmath

2010-08-29 Thread Alan Munn
t phonetic characters \begin{ipa} RPAQIOE \end{ipa} $\text{\textipa{RPAQIOE2}}$ % unfortunately this doesn't $\textipa{RPAQIOE2}$ % and neither does this \end{document} -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List informati

Re: [XeTeX] Checking if a font exists

2010-08-29 Thread Alan Munn
bution of Adobe fonts is permitted (I would assume not) so this really isn't a (legal) option. Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] Checking if a font exists

2010-08-29 Thread Alan Munn
On Aug 29, 2010, at 12:25 PM, Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote: Alan Munn wrote: Is there a way to check whether a font is present in a user's system? I need to generate a document with Myriad Pro if it exists, Arial otherwise, and if neither, exit with an error. Well, at the ri

[XeTeX] Checking if a font exists

2010-08-29 Thread Alan Munn
Is there a way to check whether a font is present in a user's system? I need to generate a document with Myriad Pro if it exists, Arial otherwise, and if neither, exit with an error. I couldn't find anything in either the fontspec and xetex documentation. Thanks Alan -- Al

Re: [XeTeX] OldStyle symbols with Hoefler Text?

2010-08-19 Thread Alan Munn
On Aug 19, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Alan Munn wrote: On Aug 18, 2010, at 1:44 PM, chagrins wrote: With Adobe Garamond Pro, when I use \defaultfontfeatures{Numbers={Proportional,OldStyle}} ...it also outputs "lowercase" symbols - for example, the dollar sign matches the numbers. H

Re: [XeTeX] OldStyle symbols with Hoefler Text?

2010-08-19 Thread Alan Munn
cale \$ in any other font, which may not be desirable. Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] textsuperscript and french issue

2010-08-18 Thread Alan Munn
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Re: [XeTeX] fontspec: loading different shapes/scales of one font as different font instances?

2010-08-01 Thread Alan Munn
ros Bold} then \bold foo will produce 'foo' in the bold version of the font. Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] pstricks and dvi output in xelatex

2010-07-31 Thread Alan Munn
ion when compiled with xelatex compared to with latex- dvips-ps2df. It's not really about how pstricks works, per se. Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] pstricks and dvi output in xelatex

2010-07-30 Thread Alan Munn
, I'd say that yes it *is* in the middle of the arrow. I don't think that's what George means by "the middle". The problem is that the text is not placed on the midpoint of the length of the arrow in the xetex version. Alan -

Re: [XeTeX] pstricks and dvi output in xelatex

2010-07-30 Thread Alan Munn
On Jul 30, 2010, at 8:54 PM, George wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Alan Munn wrote: So you're saying that if you compile the document and view the resulting pdf, (not dvi) the results are different? The only difference I see is that the orientation of the pages is diff

Re: [XeTeX] pstricks and dvi output in xelatex

2010-07-30 Thread Alan Munn
On Jul 30, 2010, at 5:28 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote: Am 30.07.2010 um 22:55 schrieb Alan Munn: The only difference I see is that the orientation of the pages is different. (Not sure what causes that). Are you using Skim? It somehow prefers to start in landscape... No, this isn't a v

Re: [XeTeX] pstricks and dvi output in xelatex

2010-07-30 Thread Alan Munn
On Jul 30, 2010, at 3:43 PM, George wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Alan Munn wrote: This is more a problem of your dvi viewer.�The pdf created from both is the same. (e.g. xdvi doesn't display this correctly whether it's compiled with latex or xelatex.) There is

Re: [XeTeX] pstricks and dvi output in xelatex

2010-07-30 Thread Alan Munn
ted from both is the same. (e.g. xdvi doesn't display this correctly whether it's compiled with latex or xelatex.) Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] xunicode and TIPA

2010-07-28 Thread Alan Munn
Undefined control sequence \realLaTeXcedilla Anyway, I'd be happy to do some of the work, but I'm somewhat in the dark as to how to start. Thanks Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] xunicode and TIPA

2010-07-28 Thread Alan Munn
On Jul 28, 2010, at 2:03 PM, Ulrike Fischer wrote: Am Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:25:30 -0400 schrieb Alan Munn: Hi The xunicode package provides a textipa command which recognizes (most of?) the commands from the tipa package. This is very useful, since it allows one to convert legacy documents

Re: [XeTeX] xunicode and TIPA

2010-07-28 Thread Alan Munn
I was wondering if there's was a quicker (and probably dirtier) way to do it, given that xunicode has already done much of the work. Maybe I'll just bite the bullet and make the mapping file. (But I'll still take suggestions for a quick and dirty solution.) Thanks Al

Re: [XeTeX] xunicode and TIPA

2010-07-28 Thread Alan Munn
e a way to incorporate into the environment definition itself? (Otherwise it defeats the purpose of trying to deal with legacy code.) Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

[XeTeX] xunicode and TIPA

2010-07-28 Thread Alan Munn
orrect phonetic characters \begin{IPA}RPAQIOE % This obviously doesn't \end{IPA} \end{document} Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] custom footnote rules w/ ednotes, polyglossia & bidi

2010-07-26 Thread Alan Munn
your own problems. :-) Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] custom footnote rules w/ ednotes, polyglossia & bidi

2010-07-25 Thread Alan Munn
atic direction is correct on a page in which the text's direction subsequently changes. Nonetheless, it doesn't give the type of granular control I was requesting for each level of ednote's scholarly footnotes, for which I am much grateful to Alan's help above. On 25

Re: [XeTeX] custom footnote rules w/ ednotes, polyglossia & bidi

2010-07-25 Thread Alan Munn
On Jul 25, 2010, at 1:43 PM, Alan Munn wrote: Hi Wafa and Talal, Hi, Vafa, sorry for misspelling your name. Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] custom footnote rules w/ ednotes, polyglossia & bidi

2010-07-25 Thread Alan Munn
mply use \rightfootnoterule for the definition of my "level B" of footnotes, but this did not work. see attached file. The commands clearly works. -- Best wishes, Vafa Khalighi -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information,

Re: [XeTeX] How to change font name of beamer frametitle ?

2010-07-22 Thread Alan Munn
trick. -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] Overline in xetex using polyglossia

2010-07-14 Thread Alan Munn
amsmath package and then using $\overline{\text{Arabic Text}}$ (assuming your main font it set to an Arabic font). If you main font isn't an Arabic font, then put the appropriate font selection command inside the \text{} command. Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gm

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX Digest, Vol 75, Issue 34

2010-06-14 Thread Alan Munn
On Jun 14, 2010, at 2:08 AM, Ross Moore wrote: Hi Alan, and Ashok, On 14/06/2010, at 2:23 PM, Alan Munn wrote: This isn't really a XeLaTeX question, but a very elementary latex question. There are so many things wrong with the table you posted it's hard to know where to start.

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX Digest, Vol 75, Issue 34

2010-06-13 Thread Alan Munn
6 & 1193 \ hline $sum^*$ & 1622.074 & -192.833 & 95.893 & -46.769 &49.124& -97.718 & 1380.647 & 1385 \ hline $Xi$ & 1736.812 & -193.996 & -90.312 & -46.769 & -137.081& -

Re: [XeTeX] Embedding sounds in XeLaTeX

2010-06-06 Thread Alan Munn
ow of, which is a real pity. Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] embedding fonts

2010-06-03 Thread Alan Munn
erally with the - expensive - pitstop program). But when I checked the pdf files gained with xelatex, only subsets were saved, which is not enough. Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://

Re: [XeTeX] Weird character swap when using xelatex+fontspec+listings

2010-06-01 Thread Alan Munn
there a reason to do it one way or the other? Alan On Jun 1, 2010, at 3:51 AM, Ulrike Fischer wrote: Am Sun, 30 May 2010 16:30:07 -0400 schrieb Alan Munn: When I compile the attached t.tex with xelatex I get the attached t.pdf, in which the big pi has somehow switched positions with '

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