Re: [XeTeX] OldStyle Numbers not changeable to Lining Numbers

2010-08-17 Thread M. Niedermair
Hi, try \documentclass{article} \usepackage[osf]{libertine} \newfontfamily\libertineX[Mapping=tex-text, RawFeature=+liga% ;+pnum ]{Linux Libertine O} \begin{document} A0123456789 {\libertineX B0123456789 } A0123456789 \end{document} tested

Re: [XeTeX] Good Text Font + Math Font Combination

2010-08-17 Thread Peter Dyballa
Has Thunderbird a way to send a message to this list without usurping an existing thread? Some users on this list, including me, prefer to have to clean threads in their eMail applications, so we do not start a new thread by replying to an old message and erasing the original subject. Bec

Re: [XeTeX] Good Text Font + Math Font Combination

2010-08-17 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 17.08.2010 um 10:31 schrieb Peter Dyballa: > Has Thunderbird a way to send a message to this list without usurping an > existing thread? Posting a new message (without using the answer function) to xetex@tug.org should start a new thread. --

[XeTeX] OldStyle Numbers not changeable to Lining Numbers

2010-08-17 Thread Georg A. Duffner
Peter Baker wrote: … The various OpenType features are supposed to do this: lnum (Lining Numbers) converts oldstyle-height numbers to full-height tnum (Tabular Numbers) converts proportional-width numbers to fixed-width pnum (Proportional Numbers) converts fixed-width numbers to proportional-wi

Re: [XeTeX] Problems with thickness of \frac rule and width of accents (\hat) with XeLaTeX

2010-08-17 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:15:35AM +0200, Ulrik Vieth wrote: > Hi, > > I tested it with both XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX (both from TL2010 pretest). > In short, the problem only occurs in XeLaTeX, but not in LuaLaTeX, > despite using the same macro packages and fonts for both engines. > > I do not reall

Re: [XeTeX] xe(la)tex to epub?

2010-08-17 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:37:18AM -0700, Michiel Kamermans wrote: > Hi all, > > just wondering: is there an output driver that will generate an epub > rather than pdf file from xe(la)tex source? I know it's less precise > than pdf files in terms of boxing, but epub demand is high, and it > allows

Re: [XeTeX] Good Text Font + Math Font Combination

2010-08-17 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:05:17AM +0200, Tobias Schoel wrote: > Hi, > > as there seems to be only Asana Math and XITS Math as free and > complete OpenType Math fonts distributed along texlive the following > question arises for me (as I used to use Linux Libertine as text > font): > > What is a

Re: [XeTeX] Problems with thickness of \frac rule and width of accents (\hat) with XeLaTeX

2010-08-17 Thread Ulrik Vieth
On 08/17/2010 04:32 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: Likely XeTeX does not check this parameter at all and resorts to some hard coded default rule thickness. No, that cannot be the reason. I know for sure that XeTeX does load some (but not all) of the OpenType font parameters and maps them to TeX fon

Re: [XeTeX] Problems with thickness of \frac rule and width of accents (\hat) with XeLaTeX

2010-08-17 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:54:00PM +0200, Ulrik Vieth wrote: > On 08/17/2010 04:32 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > > >Likely XeTeX does not check this parameter at all and resorts to some > >hard coded default rule thickness. > > No, that cannot be the reason. I know for sure that XeTeX does load > so

Re: [XeTeX] Problems with thickness of \frac rule and width of accents (\hat) with XeLaTeX

2010-08-17 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:54:00PM +0200, Ulrik Vieth wrote: [...] > Unfortunately, there seems to be a major conceptual difference > between XeTeX and LuaTeX here with respect to font loading of OT > math fonts, which cannot be resolved quickly without major changes > to the engine. > > The most

Re: [XeTeX] xe(la)tex to epub?

2010-08-17 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Khaled, AFAIK, epup is just a subset of xhtml with a subset of css2, so IMO not a kind of output format that is very well suited for TeX (well, I hardly consider html an output format at all, the output is what the browser renders out of it). True, but CSS uses a box model too, so it sho

Re: [XeTeX] Problems with thickness of \frac rule and width of accents (\hat) with XeLaTeX

2010-08-17 Thread Ulrik Vieth
On 08/17/2010 10:12 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: Hmm, thinking a bit more, this is likely to break legacy math control sequences that has no equivalent in unicode-math yet, which will currently just grap a glyph from CM, more seriously, it will break \overbrace and likes since XeTeX support seems not

Re: [XeTeX] xe(la)tex to epub?

2010-08-17 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 01:16:02PM -0700, Michiel Kamermans wrote: > Khaled, > > >AFAIK, epup is just a subset of xhtml with a subset of css2, so IMO not a > >kind of output format that is very well suited for TeX (well, I hardly > >consider html an output format at all, the output is what the b

Re: [XeTeX] xe(la)tex to epub?

2010-08-17 Thread Ross Moore
Hi Khaled and Michiel, On 18/08/2010, at 6:58 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 01:16:02PM -0700, Michiel Kamermans wrote: >> Khaled, >> >>> AFAIK, epup is just a subset of xhtml with a subset of css2, so IMO not a >>> kind of output format that is very well suited for TeX (well

Re: [XeTeX] xe(la)tex to epub?

2010-08-17 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 08:11:06AM +1000, Ross Moore wrote: > Hi Khaled and Michiel, > > On 18/08/2010, at 6:58 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 01:16:02PM -0700, Michiel Kamermans wrote: > >> Khaled, > >> > >>> AFAIK, epup is just a subset of xhtml with a subset of css2, so

Re: [XeTeX] xe(la)tex to epub?

2010-08-17 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Khaled, Ross, As I wrote above, if it is about the structural formating, then it does not worth the trouble, it can be achieved with almost every tool and document format out there (even office suits can build structured documents). It is visual, the precise output, where TeX excels which is tot

Re: [XeTeX] xe(la)tex to epub?

2010-08-17 Thread Ross Moore
Hi Michiel, On 18/08/2010, at 10:28 AM, Michiel Kamermans wrote: > Khaled, Ross, >> This can be useful, however, if one have existing TeX material that need >> to be processed to other output format, though one can still argue that >> converting it ones to some sort of XML is much better long te

Re: [XeTeX] xe(la)tex to epub?

2010-08-17 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:48:59AM +1000, Ross Moore wrote: > Hi Michiel, > > On 18/08/2010, at 10:28 AM, Michiel Kamermans wrote: > > > Khaled, Ross, > > >> This can be useful, however, if one have existing TeX material that need > >> to be processed to other output format, though one can still

Re: [XeTeX] unicode-math (I think) redefines \slash

2010-08-17 Thread Will Robertson
On 2010-08-12 04:54:45 +0930, "Joel C. Salomon" said: Using all packages as of TL ’10 pretest. At one point in my document I needed an optional line-break after a slash, but blah blah overfull line UNIX\slash Linux didn’t break. Inserting the line \show\slash showed me that \

Re: [XeTeX] Checking for existence of font feature

2010-08-17 Thread Will Robertson
On 2010-08-12 16:16:54 +0930, Khaled Hosny said: Ah, thank you. Are these features (relatively) new? Rather embarrassing not to have spotted them, but anyway… All were introduced in version 2, I think. Yep, very new. I've got a problem using these commands. Using XeTeX v0.9995.1 texlive

Re: [XeTeX] OldStyle Numbers not changeable to Lining Numbers

2010-08-17 Thread Will Robertson
On 2010-08-17 08:23:15 +0930, Tobias Schoel said: \defaultfeatures{Numbers=OldStyle} gives medieval numbers, \addfontfeature{Numbers=Lining} afterwards keeps medieval numbers. Minimal Example: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \defaultfontfeatures{Numbers={OldStyle}} \setmainfont