Re: [XeTeX] Unicode-named macros in XeTeX

2011-01-13 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 16:01, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: >> Can't help with the "How to type one" > That's not what Bogdan means with “to generate”; he means to actually > insert the character in the text stream, since one might worry that when > typing a character actually calls a macro that is s

Re: [XeTeX] Unicode-named macros in XeTeX

2011-01-13 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:43:00 +0100 schrieb Bogdan Butnaru: > I’m writing a document using XeTeX (mainly for its ease of accessing > TTF fonts) and with the package xunicode to allow me to type Unicode > characters easily—for several reasons it’s considerably more > convenient for me to have thing

Re: [XeTeX] Unicode-named macros in XeTeX

2011-01-13 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
> \XeTeXdashbreakstate 1 I didn't know that command. When was it introduce? Arthur -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] Unicode-named macros in XeTeX

2011-01-13 Thread John Was
eX for Mac OS X and other platforms" Sent: 13 January 2011 14:55 Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Unicode-named macros in XeTeX I anticipate the problem of having to actually generate the em-dash character instead of recursively calling the em-dash macro inside the macro, so please mention this if you h

Re: [XeTeX] Unicode-named macros in XeTeX

2011-01-13 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
> Can't help with the "How to type one" That's not what Bogdan means with “to generate”; he means to actually insert the character in the text stream, since one might worry that when typing a character actually calls a macro that is supposed to insert that same character into the text, the macro

Re: [XeTeX] Unicode-named macros in XeTeX

2011-01-13 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
> I anticipate the problem of having to actually generate the em-dash > character instead of recursively calling the em-dash macro inside the > macro, so please mention this if you have a solution for me, but I’m > already stumped at the “how to call a macro ‘—’” part. You need to make the em-da

Re: [XeTeX] Unicode-named macros in XeTeX

2011-01-13 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Bogdan Butnaru wrote: However, I’m not satisfied with the way em-dashes behave in this setup. I’d like to define a macro that does what I want (e.g. control spacing and line breaking around the dash), but I want to call by just typing an em-dash, i.e. just “—” instead of “\dash”. I anticipate

[XeTeX] Unicode-named macros in XeTeX

2011-01-13 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Hello everyone! This might be a silly question, but please be gentle. I honestly tried to find and answer and failed. I’m writing a document using XeTeX (mainly for its ease of accessing TTF fonts) and with the package xunicode to allow me to type Unicode characters easily—for several reasons it’