[XeTeX] Vertical Japanese in memoir with fontspec

2010-05-07 Thread Pander
Hi all, As suggested by Will Robertson, I'm posting this here too. I have been experimenting a bit with vertical Japanese text in fontspec. It works somewhat, but I have also found some issues. If any one you has some experience with this, please have a look at: http://groups.google.com/gr

Re: [XeTeX] TikZ and Polyglossia

2010-05-07 Thread Vafa Khalighi
I just looked at tikz files today and the solution is so simple. just put this before \begin{document}: \makeatletter \let\pgfu...@minipage\minipage \let\pgfu...@endminipage\endminipage \makeatother -- Best wishes, Vafa Khalighi -- Subscript

Re: [XeTeX] Vertical Japanese in memoir with fontspec

2010-05-07 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi Pander, can you attach that .tex to a reply, since the page you linked to has inserted delicious and utterly useless linebreaks =) I've done Japanese vertical typesetting using XeLaTeX and Fontspce (although I ditched Memoir at some point because it wasn't playing nice enough with glossar

Re: [XeTeX] Vertical Japanese in memoir with fontspec

2010-05-07 Thread Vafa Khalighi
I almost know nothing about vertical typesetting but can not you do vertical typesetting by some rotation? -- Best wishes, Vafa Khalighi -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] TikZ and Polyglossia

2010-05-07 Thread Hadi SAOUD
Le 07/05/2010 15:16, Vafa Khalighi a écrit : \makeatletter \let\pgfu...@minipage\minipage \let\pgfu...@endminipage\endminipage \makeatother Thank you very much, my flowchart is generated now! These few lines must be used to patch bidi or pgf/tikz? I mean next version of which package shoul

Re: [XeTeX] TikZ and Polyglossia

2010-05-07 Thread Vafa Khalighi
> These few lines must be used to patch bidi or pgf/tikz? I mean next version > of which package should correct the problem? > > > It would not matter actually but because bidi should be loaded as the last package, these could be done inside bidi package and I have already done that. So if you are

Re: [XeTeX] Vertical Japanese in memoir with fontspec

2010-05-07 Thread Pander
Vafa Khalighi wrote: I almost know nothing about vertical typesetting but can not you do vertical typesetting by some rotation? This is that certain glyphs need a special version or special extra rotation or alignment. -- Best wishes, Vafa Khalighi

Re: [XeTeX] Vertical Japanese in memoir with fontspec

2010-05-07 Thread Pander
Michiel Kamermans wrote: Hi Pander, can you attach that .tex to a reply, since the page you linked to has inserted delicious and utterly useless linebreaks =) Done. If more people want it, let me know. I've done Japanese vertical typesetting using XeLaTeX and Fontspce (although I ditched Me

Re: [XeTeX] Vertical Japanese in memoir with fontspec

2010-05-07 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Vafa, I almost know nothing about vertical typesetting but can not you do vertical typesetting by some rotation? Yes and no. For the normal syllabic scripts and chinese characters, you can. However, there are also half-height OR half-width characters, depending on the writing direction. In h

[XeTeX] Current version of Junicode--with underdotted r

2010-05-07 Thread Peter Baker
Sorry for the delay. I am not releasing a new version of Junicode right now, but a build from the current CVS version, which now includes underdotted r, is here: http://faculty.virginia.edu/OldEnglish/secret/junicode-current.zip It also has whatever else is new since the last release. For exam

[XeTeX] bidi footnote

2010-05-07 Thread Avi Wollman
I'm trying to write a footnote that has hebrew and english. Even "non breakable" whitespace isn't working. -- Avi Wollman אבי וולמן http://www.google.com/profiles/avi.wollman test.

Re: [XeTeX] Vertical Japanese in memoir with fontspec

2010-05-07 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Pander, > I use the XeTeX interchar solution for that in my book. I use Palatino Linotype as main font, but it lacks a lot of extended latin charact

Re: [XeTeX] bidi footnote

2010-05-07 Thread Vafa Khalighi
I do not think this is bidi's problem. Maybe this is something that should get fixed inside polyglossia. -- Best wishes, Vafa Khalighi -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] bidi footnote

2010-05-07 Thread Vafa Khalighi
Can you send a minimal example using only bidi (no fontspec, no polyglossia, no etc) that shows the bug? -- Best wishes, Vafa Khalighi -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] bidi footnote

2010-05-07 Thread Vafa Khalighi
One more thing. The \ltr command is a bidi internal macro and should not be used by ordinary users. It is a tool for implementing bidi's footnote mechanism. So you only should use those commands documented in the documentation. -- Best wishes, Vafa Khalighi -