Re: [XeTeX] Font variant selection in Fontspec/Mathspec options incomplete

2010-11-14 Thread Ross Moore
Hi Pinfeng, Sent from my iPad On 13/11/2010, at 10:49 PM, "Christian Schmidt" wrote: > Hi Ross, > >>> Though, this leads me to the additional note, that in math mode---which is >>> typically set in italics---, the use of \mathbf{x} does not produce a bold >>> italic variant but rather only a

Re: [XeTeX] Font variant selection in Fontspec/Mathspec options incomplete

2010-11-14 Thread Tobias Schoel
Am 13.11.2010 12:49, schrieb Christian Schmidt: I wasn't aware about this issue. In normal text mode, italic and bold font selections work complementary... so I expected the same behavior in math mode too. I can't really understand these differing approaches. Maybe, I am too bold answering, but

Re: [XeTeX] Font variant selection in Fontspec/Mathspec options incomplete

2010-11-13 Thread Christian Schmidt
Hi Ross, Though, this leads me to the additional note, that in math mode---which is typically set in italics---, the use of \mathbf{x} does not produce a bold italic variant but rather only a bold upright variant of x in this case. This is the way it has always been in LaTeX. It should n

Re: [XeTeX] Font variant selection in Fontspec/Mathspec options incomplete

2010-11-11 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 11.11.2010 um 11:24 schrieb Christian Schmidt: I don't know how to use the \listfiles command Just put it into the preamble, just like setting the page style to empty, or defining some new macro or command. -- Mit friedvollen Grüßen Pete There are two major products that come out o

Re: [XeTeX] Font variant selection in Fontspec/Mathspec options incomplete

2010-11-11 Thread Ross Moore
Hello Pinfeng (or is it Christian?) Sent from my iPad On 12/11/2010, at 4:48 AM, "Christian Schmidt" wrote: > Hi Will, > > Thanks for this hint. I updated to this last fontspec version (2.1d) and now > it brings no error message anymore and bold italic is set correctly in > ordinary text...

Re: [XeTeX] Font variant selection in Fontspec/Mathspec options incomplete

2010-11-11 Thread Christian Schmidt
Hello Dee, I don't know how to use the \listfiles command but I first used the latest packages from the MiKTeX 2.8 repository. Today I upgraded to MiKTeX 2.9 which includes XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9997.4 (MiKTeX 2.9) Fontspec, v2.1b 2010/09/29 Mathspec, v0.2 2009/09/30. The upgrade d

Re: [XeTeX] Font variant selection in Fontspec/Mathspec options incomplete

2010-11-11 Thread Christian Schmidt
Hi Will, Thanks for this hint. I updated to this last fontspec version (2.1d) and now it brings no error message anymore and bold italic is set correctly in ordinary text... Though, this leads me to the additional note, that in math mode---which is typically set in italics---, the use of

Re: [XeTeX] Font variant selection in Fontspec/Mathspec options incomplete

2010-11-11 Thread Will Robertson
On 2010-11-10 19:09:33 +1030, Christian Schmidt said: Selecting a font via the extension option/feature from Truetype or Opentype font files and, at the same time, specifying the corresponding font varian ts through the other options, fontspec/mathspec is not able to set the vari ant "Bold It

Re: [XeTeX] Font variant selection in Fontspec/Mathspec options incomplete

2010-11-10 Thread Diederick C. Niehorster
Hi Pinfeng, I'm no expert on this but two things to help this issue along: - did you update to the very latest version of the packages? - could you post the relevant package versions here, use \listfiles? Best, Dee On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 16:39, Christian Schmidt wrote: > > Hello everyone, > Th