Re: [XeTeX] Greek XeLaTeX

2010-10-13 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 12.10.2010 um 21:06 schrieb Steve Peter: Nagari (the middle one) is read left-to-right. Yes, I thought so, but I also thought it would be more funny when I showed my complete ignorance... -- Greetings Pete Isn't vi that text editor with two modes... one that beeps and one that co

Re: [XeTeX] Hoefler Text Ornaments

2010-10-13 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Ross Moore wrote: Garcin did not type the hand. Fr Michael did, and Garcin just copied it. Ah, my stupidity. Apologies, Jean-Louis. ** Phil. -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

[XeTeX] Localized XeLaTeX: was Greek XeLaTeX

2010-10-13 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Am 13.10.2010 um 01:27 schrieb Andrew Cunningham: > maybe one way forward is to define the commands in Greek, but also > develop a script to covert to/from Greek localised XeLaTeX and > standard XeLaTeX? > This is definitely is a way to go. Another question is is their a wide-sp

Re: [XeTeX] wrong kerning and slow processing with xelatex in texlive 2010

2010-10-13 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 12.10.2010 um 21:09 schrieb Vadim Radionov: I did this and found nothing suspicious (logs attached), except for TEXMFHOME which points to 2 directories (I used to think that setting variable in texlive//texmf.cnf overrides texlive//texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf, but their values both are use

Re: [XeTeX] wrong kerning and slow processing with xelatex in texlive 2010

2010-10-13 Thread Vadim Radionov
> XeTeX does not work correctly, it stumbles over an error. What makes you > assume that the output could then be correct? Sorry, I missed it. Where was the error -- except for wrong kerning in the output? > BTW, texlive/2010/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf is the configuration file read by > *TeX utiliti

Re: [XeTeX] Hoefler Text Ornaments

2010-10-13 Thread Fr. Michael Gilmary
Alan Munn wrote: As others have noted, you shouldn't need to know any of the codes; you should be able to insert the characters directly into your xelatex source. Also, now I tried simply to "drag-and-drop" the glyph from the palette to the application window --- and that works, too!

Re: [XeTeX] wrong kerning and slow processing with xelatex in texlive 2010

2010-10-13 Thread Vadim Radionov
I finally found the explanation. Mea culpa, it was in the kerning in the font. All 3 lookup tables contained kerning -50 for small caps Cyrillic `t' and `a', and the was another one of -60 in kerning classes, which gave the total of -210. I'm not sure if it is allowed and what should be the defaul

Re: [XeTeX] wrong kerning and slow processing with xelatex in texlive 2010

2010-10-13 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 13 Oct 2010, at 14:10, Vadim Radionov wrote: > I finally found the explanation. Mea culpa, it was in the kerning in > the font. All 3 lookup tables contained kerning -50 for small caps > Cyrillic `t' and `a', and the was another one of -60 in kerning > classes, which gave the total of -210. >

Re: [XeTeX] wrong kerning and slow processing with xelatex intexlive 2010

2010-10-13 Thread John Was
Just as a postscript to this thread, I've several times asked for (and still hope to see) a custom kerning facility in XeTeX (this is already available in LuaTeX). The idea would be that when you call up a font you can say ':kerning=mykern.krn' just as you can say ':mapping=tex-text'. The fil

[XeTeX] how to create and install xexmltex.fmt

2010-10-13 Thread William Adams
(for Mac OS X, but I'd also like instructions for mikTeX) I'm looking and not finding any easy / obvious ways to do this. What am I missing? William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.

Re: [XeTeX] Greek XeLaTeX

2010-10-13 Thread BPJ
2010-10-12 11:25, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) skrev: In another forum, I have suggested that one way to permit this is to define an underlying (numeric) canonical representation (at the time, I was writing of CSS, but the idea is equally valid for TeX, or indeed for most other computer-relat

Re: [XeTeX] wrong kerning and slow processing with xelatex in texlive 2010

2010-10-13 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 13.10.2010 um 14:41 schrieb Vadim Radionov: It is stated in the second paragraph of texlive/2010/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf that any changes should be done in texlive/2010/texmf.cnf. The output of xetex with -kpathsea-debug=3 show in my case kdebug:hash_lookup(TEXMFHOME) => ~/texmf-texlive-2010

Re: [XeTeX] wrong kerning and slow processing with xelatex in texlive 2010

2010-10-13 Thread Vadim Radionov
> Are all those lookup tables assigned to the 'kern' feature within the same > script and language system? If so, then they're cumulative. If the lookups > are each assigned to a different script/language, then they shouldn't all be > applied at the same time. Thank you, Jonathan, Yes, they we

[XeTeX] Hoefler Text Ornaments

2010-10-13 Thread GARCIN
Fisrt I thank alls the members of this list who have helped me. With their ideas I have found what I was looking for; So I give an example of a source code which must be typessetted with Xelatex. \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article} \usepackage{fontspec,xltxtra} \begin{doc

Re: [XeTeX] how to create and install xexmltex.fmt

2010-10-13 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
By xexmltex, I assume you mean David Carlisle's xmltex format built over XeTeX? I have never used it, but I don't think you need it: if I simply run xelatex on the file containing \def\xmlfile{manual.xml} \input xmltex.tex as per the instructions in the documentation, I get a f

Re: [XeTeX] Localized XeLaTeX: was Greek XeLaTeX

2010-10-13 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:57, Keith J. Schultz wrote: > >        If Yes, then the question would be how easy would it be to modify > Xe(La)TeX >        to be localizable. Easy as long as you don't require the parenthesis to stay :) That is: if you start with "XeConTeXt" ... It already comes with

Re: [XeTeX] wrong kerning and slow processing with xelatex in texlive 2010

2010-10-13 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 13 Oct 2010, at 16:51, Vadim Radionov wrote: >> Are all those lookup tables assigned to the 'kern' feature within the same >> script and language system? If so, then they're cumulative. If the lookups >> are each assigned to a different script/language, then they shouldn't all be >> applied

Re: [XeTeX] wrong kerning and slow processing with xelatex intexlive 2010

2010-10-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 02:23:47PM +0100, John Was wrote: > Just as a postscript to this thread, I've several times asked for > (and still hope to see) a custom kerning facility in XeTeX (this is > already available in LuaTeX). The idea would be that when you call > up a font you can say ':kernin

[XeTeX] polyglossia/bidi -- footnote rule alignment

2010-10-13 Thread Kamal Abdali
I'm using the package polyglossia to typeset documents in Urdu, a right-to-left language. Polyglossia uses the bidi package whose documentation implies that the footnote rule is right-aligned when the footnote is in the middle of some right-to-left text. But the footnote rule is appearing aligned t