Re: [XeTeX] XeTex and Japanese kunten and warichū

2010-09-04 Thread Jjgod Jiang
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Michiel Kamermans wrote: > Hi Clemente et all, > > it took a bit of stabbing, but this should hold you over for the warichuu > with preservation of furigana in vertical mode. However, this still leaves > the matter of kunten... I tried to use the CJK and CJKfntef p

Re: [XeTeX] XeTex and Japanese kunten and warichū

2010-09-04 Thread Jjgod Jiang
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Clemente Beghi wrote: > Woops, I wrote fontspec, but I actualy ment XeCJK. > I think it conflicts with zhspacing. Yes, it will conflict with zhspacing. I am afraid I cannot give more opinion to this issue. But I am CCing the authors of XeCJK and zhspacing to see i

Re: [XeTeX] XeTex and Japanese kunten and warichū

2010-09-04 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi Jiang, CJKfntef works with XeCJK. I was hoping to get underdotting to work without having to load xeCJK, in the same way that ruby works as its own package... xeCJK hijacks the to/from CJK interchar rules, so you can no longer issue normal fontspec instructions. When the parser goes from

[XeTeX] XeTex and Japanese kunten and warichū

2010-09-04 Thread Tak Yato (ZR)
Hello, I am one of the users on “TeX Forum” (a forum for Japanese TeX users, http://oku.edu.mie-u.ac.jp/tex/) and argued on this topic with Clemente Beghi the other day. It is my first post to this ML. I have read the argument on this thread and inspected gezhu package and sfkanbun package (a pLa

Re: [XeTeX] Change fonts for different environment/commands

2010-09-04 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Am 01.09.2010 um 21:20 schrieb Marcin Grotomirski: > How do you create xetex documents that don't look like classic LaTeX > document. I mean modern-looking pdfs (created mainly in InDesign) with for > example headings in Helvetica in fancy colours. The 'classic' TeX/LaTeX look is for the first

Re: [XeTeX] Change fonts for different environment/commands

2010-09-04 Thread Marcin Grotomirski
> So using a professional modern font and switching to one of the alternative > document classes floating around should provide you with a distinct look > quite easily. I'm mostly using the KOMA-Script classes (part of TeXLive), > which have a plethora of options to alter the standard look and h

Re: [XeTeX] Change fonts for different environment/commands

2010-09-04 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: Even while KOMA-Script actually *has* sans serif headings as a standard, I most often switch to serif heading But why ? What exactly do you dislike about the use of sans serif for headings ? To my mind, and in a scientific as opposed to artistic context, sans serif

Re: [XeTeX] Change fonts for different environment/commands

2010-09-04 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: But why ? What exactly do you dislike about the use of sans serif for headings ? To my mind, and in a scientific as opposed to artistic context, sans serif headings with serif prose seem absolutely normal and fine. For "scientific", read "technical", p

Re: [XeTeX] Change fonts for different environment/commands

2010-09-04 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Am 04.09.2010 um 18:47 schrieb Marcin Grotomirski: > I was just wondering how can I get results similar to eg. Smashing > book (https://shop.smashingmagazine.com/smashing-book-eu.html) Try this (cf. first spread of The Smashing Book): \documentclass[paper=a4,

[XeTeX] XeTex and Japanese kunten and warichū

2010-09-04 Thread Tak Yato (ZR)
>- Although the whole kunten processing indeed involves some (wierd >kind of) ruby positioning (i.e. okurigana), kunten itself (re-ten, >ichi-ni-ten, etc.) is not in “left-ruby” position, but resides >at the left-bottom of a kanji to be annotated, that is, kunten >goes between kanji. The author of

[XeTeX] Invalid fontname

2010-09-04 Thread Mike Maxwell
I'm trying out some fonts for the Dhivehi language, which has a unique script. The fonts were created by the Maldives Ministry of Communication, Science, and Technology. However, that website has been down for at least a week, so I got them from http://sites.google.com/site/iheckersite/upl

Re: [XeTeX] Invalid fontname

2010-09-04 Thread Andy Lin
I'm using MiKTeX 2.8 on Windows 7 and the following works for me (see attached PDF). \documentclass{article} \usepackage{xltxtra} \usepackage{bidi} \begin{document} \fontspec{Mv Elaaf Normal} \setRL ޓީވީއެމް އާއި ދިވެހިރާއްޖޭގެ އަޑުގެ ނަން ބަދަލުކޮށްފިއެވެ \end{document} -Andy mvtest.pdf Descri