Re: [XeTeX] Beginner questions

2010-11-06 Thread André Bellaïche
Le 6 nov. 2010 à 14:10, André Bellaïche a écrit : > > Le 30 oct. 2010 à 11:55, Peter Dyballa a écrit : > >> >> Am 29.10.2010 um 23:51 schrieb André Bellaïche: >> >>> I have looked into changebar.sty, and it does not seems to be easy to >>> replace the Postscript commands by a simple command

Re: [XeTeX] Beginner questions

2010-11-06 Thread André Bellaïche
Le 30 oct. 2010 à 11:55, Peter Dyballa a écrit : > > Am 29.10.2010 um 23:51 schrieb André Bellaïche: > >> I have looked into changebar.sty, and it does not seems to be easy to >> replace the Postscript commands by a simple command drawing an hrule or a >> vrule. > > > André, > > if you nee

Re: [XeTeX] Beginner questions

2010-10-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.10.2010 um 17:42 schrieb Peter Dyballa: Get the archive and unzip it for example somewhere in /tmp. Actually I think it's much easier to save the archive somewhere, say, in the download folder or in /tmp, and then to cd to /usr/local/ texlive/texmf-local. There, on the command line,

Re: [XeTeX] Beginner questions

2010-10-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.10.2010 um 12:38 schrieb André Bellaïche: I have also find a `frutiger' package for LaTeX: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/truetypemetrics/frutiger/ Get the archive and unzip it for example somewhere in /tmp. Change directory (cd, pushd) on the command line into that directory.

Re: [XeTeX] Beginner questions

2010-10-30 Thread André Bellaïche
Le 30 oct. 2010 à 11:55, Peter Dyballa a écrit : > > Am 29.10.2010 um 23:51 schrieb André Bellaïche: > >> I have looked into changebar.sty, and it does not seems to be easy to >> replace the Postscript commands by a simple command drawing an hrule or a >> vrule. > > > André, > > if you nee

Re: [XeTeX] Beginner questions

2010-10-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 29.10.2010 um 23:51 schrieb André Bellaïche: I have looked into changebar.sty, and it does not seems to be easy to replace the Postscript commands by a simple command drawing an hrule or a vrule. André, if you need to compare two XeLaTeX files, then you don't need the fancy XeLaTeX

Re: [XeTeX] Beginner questions

2010-10-29 Thread André Bellaïche
Le 29 oct. 2010 à 19:26, Peter Dyballa a écrit : > > Am 29.10.2010 um 18:30 schrieb André Bellaïche: > >> Is this normal? > > > Yes. With > > %%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode > > you tell TeXShop how the file's encoding is. The preference you set is just a > default for *new* files or

Re: [XeTeX] Beginner questions

2010-10-29 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 29.10.2010 um 18:30 schrieb André Bellaïche: Is this normal? Yes. With %%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode you tell TeXShop how the file's encoding is. The preference you set is just a default for *new* files or for old files *without* that encoding declaration. This declaration

Re: [XeTeX] Beginner questions

2010-10-29 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 06:30:04PM +0200, André Bellaïche wrote: > And I have observed the following: If a tex file contains the two lines > > %!TEX TS-program = xelatex > %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode > > and has been saved on the user-utf8 side, as a utf8 file, and you open it > from the user

Re: [XeTeX] Beginner questions

2010-10-29 Thread André Bellaïche
It works now, and I can type set with Frutiger. Thank you all for your help. Two more questions: 1. Does it exists a version of changebar.sty compatible with xelatex? 2. I have created two users on my mac, say user-mac and user-utf8, where the encoding preferences of TeXShop are different : app

Re: [XeTeX] Beginner questions

2010-10-23 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 23.10.2010 um 17:30 schrieb Ulrike Fischer: Am Sat, 23 Oct 2010 11:27:46 +0200 schrieb Peter Dyballa: 1. Is it possible to replace unicode by applemac encoding? What are the commands in this case? If you want to continue typing in applemac input encoding you better stay with the much m

Re: [XeTeX] Beginner questions

2010-10-23 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 23.10.2010 um 18:14 schrieb Ulrike Fischer: So why not tell them that there is a choice? Because you need to record each file's particular encoding in order to share its contents with other users – or editors/TeX front-ends/TeX engines. -- Mit friedvollen Grüßen Pete There's no

Re: [XeTeX] Beginner questions

2010-10-23 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Sat, 23 Oct 2010 17:48:46 +0200 schrieb Arthur Reutenauer: >> Why shouldn't someone be forced to use utf8 encoding if its texts >> use only chars from a 8bit codepage? Xetex is quite able to handle >> them if you declare the encoding. > > Quite, but not entirely. If you use \XeTeXinputencod

Re: [XeTeX] Beginner questions

2010-10-23 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
> Why shouldn't someone be forced to use utf8 encoding if its texts > use only chars from a 8bit codepage? Xetex is quite able to handle > them if you declare the encoding. Quite, but not entirely. If you use \XeTeXinputencoding to use some other character set, XeTeX will still write to files u

Re: [XeTeX] Beginner questions

2010-10-23 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Sat, 23 Oct 2010 10:53:42 +0200 schrieb André Bellaïche: > Let me ask some questions: > 1. Is it possible to replace unicode by applemac encoding? What > are the commands in this case? Yes. You will have to put \XeTeXinputencoding "mac" at the start (somewhere before the first non-ascii ch

Re: [XeTeX] Beginner questions

2010-10-23 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Sat, 23 Oct 2010 11:27:46 +0200 schrieb Peter Dyballa: >> 1. Is it possible to replace unicode by applemac encoding? What are >> the commands in this case? > If you want to continue typing in applemac input encoding you better > stay with the much more developed pdfTeX. All packages wor

Re: [XeTeX] Beginner questions

2010-10-23 Thread Cyril Niklaus
On 23 oct. 2010, at 18:52, André Bellaïche wrote: > > Le 23 oct. 2010 à 11:33, Cyril Niklaus a écrit : > >> On 23 oct. 2010, at 17:53, André Bellaïche wrote: >> >>> >>> 2. If the main roman font is Frutiger® 55 Roman (Linotype Original names), >>> I doubt that the system will find out that if

Re: [XeTeX] Beginner questions

2010-10-23 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 23.10.2010 um 11:46 schrieb André Bellaïche: Yes, but it does not seem that the Postscript name is the one you type in the command \setromanfont. The family name should be OK since it does not restrict the font to one variant (roman, italic, bold, a mixture). Look into Font Book (Livr

Re: [XeTeX] Beginner questions

2010-10-23 Thread André Bellaïche
Le 23 oct. 2010 à 11:33, Cyril Niklaus a écrit : > On 23 oct. 2010, at 17:53, André Bellaïche wrote: > >> I am new to XeTeX, and I could not find a text for beginners. > >> === >> >> Let me ask some questions: >> >> 1. Is it possible to re

Re: [XeTeX] Beginner questions

2010-10-23 Thread André Bellaïche
Le 23 oct. 2010 à 11:27, Peter Dyballa a écrit : > > Am 23.10.2010 um 10:53 schrieb André Bellaïche: > >> 1. Is it possible to replace unicode by applemac encoding? What are the >> commands in this case? > > If you want to continue typing in applemac input encoding you better stay > with the

Re: [XeTeX] Beginner questions

2010-10-23 Thread Cyril Niklaus
On 23 oct. 2010, at 17:53, André Bellaïche wrote: > I am new to XeTeX, and I could not find a text for beginners. > === > > Let me ask some questions: > > 1. Is it possible to replace unicode by applemac encoding? What are the > commands in

Re: [XeTeX] Beginner questions

2010-10-23 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 23.10.2010 um 10:53 schrieb André Bellaïche: 1. Is it possible to replace unicode by applemac encoding? What are the commands in this case? If you want to continue typing in applemac input encoding you better stay with the much more developed pdfTeX. All packages work with pdfTeX, an