[XeTeX] Colours are ignored with fontspec

2010-09-27 Thread Andrew Moschou
Hi Will and others, I don't recall this being reported here before now. Colours are ignored when a fontspec font is selected. See attached. My fontspec version is 2.1. \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \usepackage{xcolor} \begin{document} {Is this black? \color{red} I

Re: [XeTeX] Colours are ignored with fontspec

2010-09-27 Thread Herbert Schulz
On Sep 27, 2010, at 7:10 AM, Andrew Moschou wrote: > Hi Will and others, > > I don't recall this being reported here before now. Colours are ignored when > a fontspec font is selected. See attached. My fontspec version is 2.1. > > \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article} > > \usepackage{fontspec}

Re: [XeTeX] Colours are ignored with fontspec

2010-09-27 Thread Andrew Moschou
Good! -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-27 Thread Axel Kielhorn
Am 26.09.2010 um 20:11 schrieb Khaled Hosny: > On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 10:26:47PM +0200, Marco wrote: >> >>> From the text: >> >>> Some editors support digraphs, two letters that are combined into on >>> character. (In \wi{Vim} \texttt{ctrl-k o:} will be transformed into an >>> \"o, \texttt{ctr

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-27 Thread Axel Kielhorn
Am 26.09.2010 um 19:36 schrieb Yves Codet: > Hello. > > Le 26 sept. 2010 à 15:56, Axel Kielhorn a écrit : > > A small detail about your XEsample.tex. > > \begin{russian} > могу я Вам чем-л. помочь?% I hope this isn't a terrible curse or an insult, > never trust a dictionary > \end{russian} >

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-27 Thread Axel Kielhorn
Am 26.09.2010 um 19:11 schrieb Michiel Kamermans: > On 9/26/2010 6:56 AM, Axel Kielhorn wrote: >> I have to disagree, Vim and emacs (or should that be Emacs?) are available >> on Windows as well. (Maybe not used that often.) >> > > While they're "available" for windows, windows users don't u

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-27 Thread Axel Kielhorn
Am 26.09.2010 um 18:10 schrieb Peter Dyballa: > > Am 26.09.2010 um 15:56 schrieb Axel Kielhorn: > >> I have to disagree, Vim and emacs (or should that be Emacs?) are available >> on Windows as well. (Maybe not used that often.) > > It's actually GNU Emacs and XEmacs. There are also specialise

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-27 Thread Axel Kielhorn
Am 26.09.2010 um 19:03 schrieb Michiel Kamermans: > This touches on a recent thread on a primer for XeLaTeX, which ended in > http://wiki.xelatex.org/ (which I did not forget about to everyone who might > suspect I have, conferences and moving house are currently robbing me of all > my spare t

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-27 Thread Philipp Stephani
- Ursprüngliche Mail > Von: Axel Kielhorn > An: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms > Gesendet: Montag, den 27. September 2010, 16:45:18 Uhr > Betreff: Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort > > > Am 26.09.2010 um 19:11 schrieb Michiel Kamermans: > > > Windows users use things li

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-27 Thread Philipp Stephani
- Ursprüngliche Mail > Von: Axel Kielhorn > An: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms > Gesendet: Montag, den 27. September 2010, 16:46:00 Uhr > Betreff: Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort > > > Am 26.09.2010 um 18:10 schrieb Peter Dyballa: > > > > > Am 26.09.2010 um 15:56 sc

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-27 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 9/27/2010 7:45 AM, Axel Kielhorn wrote: Is there any editor with LaTeX support? How about TeXworks? I know that TeXniccenter does not support Unicode. (This is what lshort recommends) Another suggestion is LEd but it seems to be pre-Unicode as well. I install notepad2 on every windows mach

Re: [XeTeX] Problem changing default fonts

2010-09-27 Thread Diederick C. Niehorster
Yes, this only changes the test font (note you need to \usepackage{fontspec} as well first). I haven't tried, but probably you can still use your eulervm fonts, just try it out and see if it looks as you want. Otherwsie you can have a look at mathspec, which changes the character part of the fonts,

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-27 Thread Barry MacKichan
Microsoft's recommendations on the UI of programs are only recommendations. If the task requires it, two windows are fine. This is what you would have if you previewed in Acrobat Reader anyway -- two apps but also two windows. It's been a while, but my memory is that many of Adobe's apps, suc

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-27 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 9/27/2010 11:23 AM, Barry MacKichan wrote: Microsoft's recommendations on the UI of programs are only recommendations. If the task requires it, two windows are fine. This is what you would have if you previewed in Acrobat Reader anyway -- two apps but also two windows. Yes, they are, and

[XeTeX] bidi: LTR header in RTL document

2010-09-27 Thread Talal Al-Azem
Hello. I have a section of a chapter, the text of which is RTL. However, to keep the headers uniform with the rest of the chapter, I want its header to be LTR. How do I do this in Bidi? I tried doing \section{\LTR{header title}}, but the result I got had the section numbering still RTL: header

[XeTeX] polyglossia overline on a number of lines (another attempt)

2010-09-27 Thread Talal Al-Azem
Hello. I wrote about two weeks ago, but unfortunately didn't receive any advice as to what I should do. At the time, I wrote: > I am preparing an edition of an Arabic text, where the main text is separated > from the commentary by placing an overline above the former. I am trying to > use the \

Re: [XeTeX] polyglossia overline on a number of lines (another attempt)

2010-09-27 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 27.09.2010 um 22:44 schrieb Talal Al-Azem: Could Khaled, Vafa, or anyone else perhaps inform me of what I need to do in order to get an overline over RTL text, when that text runs for more than a single line? If no proper solution comes up: split the text, in a final step, in as many

Re: [XeTeX] Problem changing default fonts

2010-09-27 Thread Andréa Loyer
On 27/09/2010 18:01, Diederick C. Niehorster wrote: Yes, this only changes the test font (note you need to \usepackage{fontspec} as well first). I haven't tried, but probably you can still use your eulervm fonts, just try it out and see if it looks as you want. Otherwsie you can have a look at ma

Re: [XeTeX] Problem changing default fonts

2010-09-27 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 27.09.2010 um 18:23 schrieb Andréa Loyer: I am unable to use bold change size of the text as I did before in the toc and section titles, use smallcaps and change colors... Update once more and hope that fontspec 2.1a will come! -- Greetings Pete A lot of people mistake a short memory

Re: [XeTeX] bidi: LTR header in RTL document

2010-09-27 Thread Juan Acevedo
Talal: I guess this qualifies as a dirty fix, but why don't you try using \protect somewhere in your header, say: \section{\LTR{\protect{header title}}} or move the \LTR command inside the \protect-ion or something like that. I guess you really need Vafa here... Best, Juan -

Re: [XeTeX] bidi: LTR header in RTL document

2010-09-27 Thread Vafa Khalighi
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Talal Al-Azem wrote: > Hello. I have a section of a chapter, the text of which is RTL. However, to > keep the headers uniform with the rest of the chapter, I want its header to > be LTR. How do I do this in Bidi? > > I tried doing \section{\LTR{header title}}, but

Re: [XeTeX] bidi: LTR header in RTL document

2010-09-27 Thread Talal Al-Azem
Hello Vafa. Yes, my main direction of the section (chapter) is RTL. But like I've described, the rest of the book is LTR. As such, I need the headers to be uniform, and all be LTR (since the book is written in English, with the exception of the chapters containing the edited texts which are in A

Re: [XeTeX] bidi: LTR header in RTL document

2010-09-27 Thread Vafa Khalighi
\makeatletter \d...@outputpage{% \begingroup % the \endgroup is put in by \aftergroup \let \protect \noexpand \...@resetactivechars \global\let\@@i...@newlist\if@newlist \glob...@newlistfalse \...@parboxrestore \shipout \vbox{% \...@typeset@protect \aftergroup \endgrou

Re: [XeTeX] bidi: LTR header in RTL document

2010-09-27 Thread Vafa Khalighi
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Talal Al-Azem wrote: > Hello Vafa. Yes, my main direction of the section (chapter) is RTL. But > like I've described, the rest of the book is LTR. As such, I need the > headers to be uniform, and all be LTR (since the book is written in English, > with the excepti

Re: [XeTeX] bidi: LTR header in RTL document

2010-09-27 Thread Vafa Khalighi
It might be because you have an ancient version of bidi. Could you also tell us about your version of bidi package? -- به نام خداوند جان و خرد کزین برتر اندیشه برنگذرد -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.o

Re: [XeTeX] bidi: LTR header in RTL document

2010-09-27 Thread Juan Acevedo
Talal: Are you using titlesec or any such package to deal with your headers? Minimal example would indeed be helpful. -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] bidi: LTR header in RTL document

2010-09-27 Thread Talal Al-Azem
Vafa: I am using bidi v1.1.4a, , 2010/07/25. I have attached a minimal example.Juan: I am using Memoir, but nothing else, as you can see in the example attached.Kind regards,Talal minimal.tex Description: Binary data On 28 Sep 2010, at 00:19, Vafa Khalighi wrote:On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Ta

Re: [XeTeX] polyglossia overline on a number of lines (another attempt)

2010-09-27 Thread Vafa Khalighi
Use umonline package: http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=umoline -- به نام خداوند جان و خرد کزین برتر اندیشه برنگذرد -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] Redefining \em and \emph

2010-09-27 Thread Gareth Hughes
Will Robertson wrote: > On 2010-09-25 09:33:20 +0930, Gareth Hughes said: > >> Will Robertson wrote: >>> It doesn't seem to. In that case I'd write something like >>> >>> \let\oldemph\emph >>> \renewcommand\emph{% >>> \...@rtl \expandafter\aemph \else \expandafter\oldelse \fi >>> } >> >> I still

Re: [XeTeX] bidi: LTR header in RTL document

2010-09-27 Thread Vafa Khalighi
There is something odd about memoir. This does not happen with ordinary book class. You can change memoir to book and see it yourself. -- به نام خداوند جان و خرد کزین برتر اندیشه برنگذرد -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, e

Re: [XeTeX] bidi: LTR header in RTL document

2010-09-27 Thread Vafa Khalighi
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Juan Acevedo wrote: > Talal: > > Using > bidi 2010/08/01 v1.1.4c > I get the attached pdf, which looks right, I mean LTR as you want. > > > not the header on pages 6--8 -- به نام خداوند جان و خرد کزین برتر اندیشه برنگذرد

Re: [XeTeX] bidi: LTR header in RTL document

2010-09-27 Thread Talal Al-Azem
Juan, take a look at page 6-8 of the pdf you sent me; you'll find they are not correct. :-) On 28 Sep 2010, at 01:02, Juan Acevedo wrote: > Talal: > > Using > bidi 2010/08/01 v1.1.4c > I get the attached pdf, which looks right, I mean LTR as you want. > > Best, > J > > > > > > -

Re: [XeTeX] bidi: LTR header in RTL document

2010-09-27 Thread Talal Al-Azem
You're right. But due to exigencies of my project, I have no choice but to use Memoir, due to all the excellent facilities it adds. I hope this is something resolvable! Many thanks for taking the time to follow this problem. Kind regards, Talal On 28 Sep 2010, at 00:53, Vafa Khalighi wrote: >

Re: [XeTeX] polyglossia overline on a number of lines (another attempt)

2010-09-27 Thread Gareth Hughes
Vafa Khalighi wrote: > Use umonline package: > http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=umoline وفا! I can't get umoline to play nicely in Syriac. Can you actually typeset multiline Persian with \Overline? Gareth. -- Subscriptions,

Re: [XeTeX] polyglossia overline on a number of lines (another attempt)

2010-09-27 Thread Vafa Khalighi
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Gareth Hughes wrote: > Vafa Khalighi wrote: > > Use umonline package: > > http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=umoline > > وفا! > I can't get umoline to play nicely in Syriac. Can you actually typeset > multiline Persian with \Overline? > > I

Re: [XeTeX] polyglossia overline on a number of lines (another attempt)

2010-09-27 Thread Talal Al-Azem
Vafa, Many thanks! So far, from my minimal testing, looks good! Kind regards, Talal On 28 Sep 2010, at 00:44, Vafa Khalighi wrote: > Use umonline package: > http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=umoline > > > -- > به نام خداوند جان و خرد کزین برتر اندیشه برنگذرد

Re: [XeTeX] bidi: LTR header in RTL document

2010-09-27 Thread Vafa Khalighi
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Talal Al-Azem wrote: > You're right. But due to exigencies of my project, I have no choice but to > use Memoir, due to all the excellent facilities it adds. I hope this is > something resolvable! > > Many thanks for taking the time to follow this problem. > > I d

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-27 Thread David J. Perry
Another question: do beginners need an editor with LaTeX support? I don't think it is wise to recommend a "large", complex editor like TeXnicCenter or Vim to newcomers. Most good programming books take care not to overwhelm newbies with complicated editors or IDEs. Maybe it would be easiest t

Re: [XeTeX] polyglossia overline on a number of lines (another attempt)

2010-09-27 Thread Vafa Khalighi
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Gareth Hughes wrote: > Vafa Khalighi wrote: > > Use umonline package: > > http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=umoline > > وفا! > I can't get umoline to play nicely in Syriac. Can you actually typeset > multiline Persian with \Overline? > > It

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-27 Thread David J. Perry
- Original Message - From: "Michiel Kamermans" TeXWork should be recommended. But I wouldn't recommend it as main TeX editor on windows just yet, because it refuses to behave like every other application I use on it. That makes it a "good alternative if the following editors aren't

Re: [XeTeX] polyglossia overline on a number of lines (another attempt)

2010-09-27 Thread Vafa Khalighi
You may also find ulem package (no over-line though) interesting : http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=ulem -- به نام خداوند جان و خرد کزین برتر اندیشه برنگذرد -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.:

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-27 Thread Dominik Wujastyk
In my view, the synchronised-input-and-output-windows approach of TeXworks is one of its strongest points for beginners (and old hacks like me), including beginners working on Windows. I really don't think that the "Tao of Windows," the MS imprimature, that you are suggesting is foremost in most u

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-27 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:44:08AM -0700, Michiel Kamermans wrote: > On 9/27/2010 11:23 AM, Barry MacKichan wrote: > > Microsoft's recommendations on the UI of programs are only > >recommendations. If the task requires it, two windows are fine. > >This is what you would have if you previewed in Acr

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-27 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 9/27/2010 8:53 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: You know, because Windows has the most consistent user interface an OS ever had. (From some one who is yet to see two "native" Windows applications that behave the same) Yeah, yeah, look, my name isn't "Gates", but in windows the idea is, and virt

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-27 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:42:11PM -0700, Michiel Kamermans wrote: > On 9/27/2010 8:53 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > > >You know, because Windows has the most consistent user interface an OS > >ever had. > > > >(From some one who is yet to see two "native" Windows applications that > >behave the same