Re: [XeTeX] Use of BOM in XeTeX and TeXworks

2019-07-15 Thread Manfred Lotz
On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 11:05:46 + "Taylor, P" wrote: > Two related questions, the second dependent on the answer to the > first. > > 1. Is XeTeX happy with a BOM in UTF-8 files Nowadays, usage of BOM for UTF-8 is neither required nor recommended. > 2. Could TeXworks be enhanced to (a)

Re: [XeTeX] rendering of U+0903

2015-04-14 Thread Manfred Lotz
On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 16:07:19 +0200 Zdenek Wagner wrote: > 2015-04-14 15:31 GMT+02:00 Manfred Lotz > : > > > On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 13:50:47 +0100 > > Arthur Reutenauer > > wrote: > > > > > Have you tried using a non-breaking space (U+00A0) as the base

Re: [XeTeX] rendering of U+0903

2015-04-14 Thread Manfred Lotz
On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 13:50:47 +0100 Arthur Reutenauer wrote: > Have you tried using a non-breaking space (U+00A0) as the base > letter? > Great idea which works perfectly for what I wanted to do, i.e. to create an A2 poster of the Sanskrit alphabet. http://comedy.dante.de/~manfred/sanskrit_a

Re: [XeTeX] rendering of U+0903

2015-04-14 Thread Manfred Lotz
On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 14:59:03 +0200 Zdenek Wagner wrote: > The problem is that AFAIK the Indic scripts are not yet implemented in > luatex. This could be. I usually use XeLaTeX for Sanskrit stuff, and in this case I wanted to take a look how this looks like when using lualatex. > The dotted rin

[XeTeX] rendering of U+0903

2015-04-14 Thread Manfred Lotz
Hi there, When compiling the document using xelatex the visarga (ः) looks the same in the pdf document as in the source below. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{unicode} \usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont{Sanskrit 2003} \begin{document} ः \end{document} When compiling the document using lu

Re: [XeTeX] FreeSerif not working for me in Devanagari

2012-09-08 Thread Manfred Lotz
On Fri, 7 Sep 2012 08:32:14 -0500 Neal Delmonico wrote: > Hi All, > > I have been following another thread here and decided to try out the > Gnu FreeFonts. I was burned by Sanskrit 2003 which does not handle > the "r" in conjunction properly. This is interesting. I found Sanskrit 2003 especia

Re: [XeTeX] virtual keyboard question

2010-09-19 Thread Manfred Lotz
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 22:14:34 +0200 Peter Dyballa wrote: > > Am 19.09.2010 um 21:12 schrieb Manfred Lotz: > > > texworks isn't a text processor either and it works in texworks. > > And how is the font you are using? Did you try the same font in GNU > Emacs a

Re: [XeTeX] virtual keyboard question

2010-09-19 Thread Manfred Lotz
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:23:59 +0200 Peter Dyballa wrote: > GNU Emacs and gvim use monospaced fonts. By default. These do not > have ligatures. Switching to proportional fonts might not solve your > problem: editors are not text processors. But they are developing... > (using pango, libotf, li

Re: [XeTeX] virtual keyboard question

2010-09-19 Thread Manfred Lotz
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:25:56 -0400 David Perry wrote: > > On 9/19/2010 7:39 AM, Manfred Lotz wrote: > > > I tried it in TeXworks under Linux. For instance uktvaa in > > Devanagari which has a ligature in it connecting k, t and v shows > > up correctly in (out of the

Re: [XeTeX] OTF font question

2010-09-19 Thread Manfred Lotz
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:36:01 +0200 Paul Isambert wrote: > I use FontMatrix, which I find very good. > I didn't know that. Great tool. -- Many thanks, Manfred -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/lis

Re: [XeTeX] virtual keyboard question

2010-09-19 Thread Manfred Lotz
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 15:37:00 +0200 Dominik Wujastyk wrote: > You can use either Devanagari or romanisation as input and get > Devanagari output. > > For some examples, see my blog posts > >- http://cikitsa.blogspot.com/2010/07/xelatex-for-sanskrit.html > > and > >- > > http://ciki

[XeTeX] OTF font question

2010-09-19 Thread Manfred Lotz
There are OTF fonts where the their documentation states that certain Unicode ranges are partially supported. However, the documentation doesn't tell what exactly is supported. Is there a tool available that is able to list the unicode characters a font actually supports? -- Manfred -

Re: [XeTeX] virtual keyboard question

2010-09-19 Thread Manfred Lotz
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 07:08:09 -0400 David Perry wrote: > > > On 9/19/2010 3:57 AM, Manfred Lotz wrote: > > I found this one: > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964651.aspx > > Is it the URL you meant? > Yes, that's the one. Note that when usin

Re: [XeTeX] virtual keyboard question

2010-09-19 Thread Manfred Lotz
Hi David, Thanks a lot for your explanations. I personally don't use any Windows and thus that was most valuable. On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 00:10:30 -0400 David Perry wrote: > > There's a page on Microsoft's web site where one can get a graphic > showing the layout for each keyboard shipped with Wi

Re: [XeTeX] virtual keyboard question

2010-09-18 Thread Manfred Lotz
Hi Chandra, On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 06:10:14 +0530 "R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar" wrote: > On Sunday 19 September 2010 12:01 AM, Manfred Lotz wrote: > > Hi there, > > A friend of mine wants to use a bunch of different languages aka. > > fonts in a single document, like

[XeTeX] virtual keyboard question

2010-09-18 Thread Manfred Lotz
Hi there, A friend of mine wants to use a bunch of different languages aka. fonts in a single document, like for instance: Devanagari, Greek, Coptic, Cyrillic, IPA, Arabic and Hebrew. Main language is German. I told him that XeTex is very good for this. Now my question is: Is here anybody having