Re: [XeTeX] How to specify a strict leading space with XeTeX/fontspec and Memoir class?

2010-11-09 Thread stefano franchi
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Alan Munn wrote: > On Nov 8, 2010, at 4:03 PM, stefano franchi wrote: > > I am just switching from Latex to XeLatex, and I cannot quite understand >> how to force it to use a specific interline spacing (i.e. "leading") in >> certain occasions. >> More precisely: >

[XeTeX] RotatedGlyphs vs. microtype

2010-11-09 Thread Juan Acevedo
Dear all I wonder if someone can think of a way to make it possible to use microtype and have at the same time one word with rotated glyphs. The minimal example below runs fine unless you uncomment microtype. I have tried temporarily disabling microtype using \microtypesetup{protrusion=false,e

[XeTeX] RotatedGlyphs vs. microtype

2010-11-09 Thread Juan Acevedo
Regarding my previous post, I just found that the rotatebox command can bear quite a bit of self-embedding, and I have come up with the following temporary kluge. It's ugly, but it works with microtype nicely, avoiding the use of RotatedGlyphs. Half spaces are added for horizontal and vertical a

Re: [XeTeX] IPA superscript diacritics

2010-11-09 Thread Kevin Russell
I've been using Acrobat 9.4 for Mac and Reader 9.1.2 for Mac (probably a higher point-version of Reader on my office computer). It seems to be a Mac thing rather an age thing. I just dug out an old XP laptop with Acrobat Reader *8*, and it behaved like you and Philip described. Fortunatel

[XeTeX] Rewriting polyglossia in LaTeX3 style and finding polyglossia testcases

2010-11-09 Thread Rémy Oudompheng
Hello, As I am interested in getting more familiar with expl3 syntax and its possible uses, I tried rewriting polyglossia code to try to use expl3 instead of the traditional dependencies etoolbox and makecmds. That seems logical to me since polyglossia uses unconditionnally fontspec to manage font

Re: [XeTeX] IPA superscript diacritics

2010-11-09 Thread Ross Moore
Hi Kevin, On 10/11/2010, at 1:23 PM, Kevin Russell wrote: > > I've been using Acrobat 9.4 for Mac and Reader 9.1.2 for Mac (probably a > higher point-version of Reader on my office computer). > > It seems to be a Mac thing rather an age thing. I just dug out an old XP > laptop with Acrobat R