Re: [XeTeX] strande behavior of Linux Libertine fonts with optio Fractions=On

2011-01-17 Thread Mike Maxwell
On 1/16/2011 1:41 PM, Tobias Schoel wrote: Why is it even necessary or wanted to typeset vulgar fractions of arbitrary length? Just using "1234/5678" seems to be adequate. That's the usual form in maths when the font size is so small, that \frac{1234}{5678} would be even smaller or disturbing if

Re: [XeTeX] strande behavior of Linux Libertine fonts with optio Fractions=On

2011-01-16 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:04:33AM +0300, Alexey Kryukov wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:09:40 -0600 (CST) > msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: > > > I'd been hoping for the source code as such - i.e. the *.fea files. > > Looking at the substitution tables after they're compiled into the > > *.otf fi

Re: [XeTeX] strande behavior of Linux Libertine fonts with optio Fractions=On

2011-01-16 Thread Alexey Kryukov
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:09:40 -0600 (CST) msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: > I'd been hoping for the source code as such - i.e. the *.fea files. > Looking at the substitution tables after they're compiled into the > *.otf files can be difficult with a complicated feature like > arbitrary-length frac

Re: [XeTeX] strande behavior of Linux Libertine fonts with optio Fractions=On

2011-01-16 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Tobias Schoel wrote: Why is it even necessary or wanted to typeset vulgar fractions of arbitrary length? Just using "1234/5678" seems to be adequate. That's the usual form in maths when the font size is so small, that \frac{1234}{5678} would be even smaller or disturbing if in the same size.

Re: [XeTeX] strande behavior of Linux Libertine fonts with optio Fractions=On

2011-01-16 Thread Tobias Schoel
Why is it even necessary or wanted to typeset vulgar fractions of arbitrary length? Just using "1234/5678" seems to be adequate. That's the usual form in maths when the font size is so small, that \frac{1234}{5678} would be even smaller or disturbing if in the same size. bye Toscho Am 16.01.

Re: [XeTeX] strande behavior of Linux Libertine fonts with optio Fractions=On

2011-01-16 Thread mskala
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011, Khaled Hosny wrote: > It can be done to some degree, see: > http://talleming.com/2009/10/01/fraction-fever-2/ Looks like it's simply doing fixed-length sequences, with a large fixed length. That may be good enough in practice - who *really* needs to not only typeset fractions

Re: [XeTeX] strande behavior of Linux Libertine fonts with optio Fractions=On

2011-01-16 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:09:40AM -0600, msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote: > > > I couldn't find the source code for the OpenType features > > > in Latin Modern Roman; > > > Voilà! > > > > > > > otfinfo -f lmroman10-regular.otf > > I'd been hopin

Re: [XeTeX] strande behavior of Linux Libertine fonts with optio Fractions=On

2011-01-16 Thread mskala
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote: > > I couldn't find the source code for the OpenType features > > in Latin Modern Roman; > Voilà! > > > > > otfinfo -f lmroman10-regular.otf I'd been hoping for the source code as such - i.e. the *.fea files. Looking at the substitution tables aft

Re: [XeTeX] strande behavior of Linux Libertine fonts with optio Fractions=On

2011-01-13 Thread Alexey Kryukov
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:44:31 -0600 (CST) msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: > Fr. Michael said that Latin Modern Roman and Junicode don't have this > effect, and that's very interesting because I thought (for the reasons > described) that it was impossible to avoid at the level of OpenType > substitu

Re: [XeTeX] strande behavior of Linux Libertine fonts with optio Fractions=On

2011-01-13 Thread Fr. Michael Gilmary
msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: Fr. Michael said that Latin Modern Roman and Junicode don't have this effect, and that's very interesting because I thought (for the reasons described) that it was impossible to avoid at the level of OpenType substitution. Matthew, might it have something to

Re: [XeTeX] strande behavior of Linux Libertine fonts with optio Fractions=On

2011-01-13 Thread mskala
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, François Patte wrote: > > You should only turn the fractions option on where you actually want > So no other solution that: > {\addfontfeature{Fractions=On} 1/2} > > Or a macro doing the same job? As far as I know, that's what must be done. Fr. Michael said that Latin Modern

Re: [XeTeX] strande behavior of Linux Libertine fonts with optio Fractions=On

2011-01-13 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 13/01/2011 15:30, msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca a écrit : > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, François Patte wrote: >> Who can explain (and correct if possible) this strange behaviour of the >> Linux Libertine fonts if you add the option "Fractions=On" >> >> If you p

Re: [XeTeX] strande behavior of Linux Libertine fonts with optio Fractions=On

2011-01-13 Thread mskala
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, François Patte wrote: > Who can explain (and correct if possible) this strange behaviour of the > Linux Libertine fonts if you add the option "Fractions=On" > > If you put a number with more than one digit, only the last number has > the normal size, the preceding digits are w

Re: [XeTeX] strande behavior of Linux Libertine fonts with optio Fractions=On

2011-01-13 Thread Fr. Michael Gilmary
� wrote: Bonjour Bonjour François Who can explain (and correct if possible) this strange behaviour of the Linux Libertine fonts if you add the option "Fractions=On" AFAICT, this is a font issue. Curiously, other fonts render all the numbers as superscripts and when you add ``/'' be