[XeTeX] Letterly template broken

2010-11-10 Thread Kai Hendry
Hi there, I run a free service at http://letterly.com/ and I've recently seen the service break. It probably is due to some xetex update, so I hope you can help. \documentclass[british,a4paper]{letter} \usepackage{fontspec} \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text} \usepackage{xunicode} \setmainfon

Re: [XeTeX] Letterly template broken

2010-11-10 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:38:25PM +, Kai Hendry wrote: > Hi there, > > I run a free service at http://letterly.com/ and I've recently seen > the service break. It probably is due to some xetex update, so I hope > you can help. > > > \documentclass[british,a4paper]{letter} > \usepackage{font

Re: [XeTeX] Letterly template broken

2010-11-10 Thread Kai Hendry
On 10 November 2010 12:56, Khaled Hosny wrote: > That is a LaTeX file, so you should use `xelatex` instead of `xetex`. Sorry, false alarm. http://svn.natalian.org/projects/letter/generate.php actually does use xelatex. Seems to be a permission problem, which I've yet to figure out. :/ Thanks,

Re: [XeTeX] Specifying papersize with XeTeX

2010-11-10 Thread William Adams
On Nov 10, 2010, at 7:10 AM, John Was wrote: > it would be useful to know what options are available - and also whether one > can customize the width and height, just in case I encounter a similar issue > with say Demy or another non-DIN/ISO physical page area. in a message entitled Re: [XeTeX

Re: [XeTeX] Specifying papersize with XeTeX

2010-11-10 Thread John Was
Thanks - I'll experiment in due course. I hadn't thought of specifying the physical page (apart from using cropmarks) with \special within the document. John - Original Message - From: "William Adams" To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" Sent: 10 November 2010

[XeTeX] Specifying papersize with XeTeX

2010-11-10 Thread John Was
Does anyone know which papersizes are supported by the (plain) XeTeX --papersize option? (I'm on a Windows XP platform and usually typeset from the command prompt.) I unexpectedly had to resize something to A5 the other day (for a manufacturing printer who didn't want to handle an A4 PDF with

Re: [XeTeX] Letterly template broken

2010-11-10 Thread Kai Hendry
I have two machines running squeeze, but different outputs: hen...@webconverger testing$ xelatex letter.tex This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (TeX Live 2009/Debian) restricted \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./letter.tex LaTeX2e <2009/09/24> Babel and hyphenation patterns f

Re: [XeTeX] Specifying papersize with XeTeX

2010-11-10 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 10.11.2010 um 13:10 schrieb John Was: --papersize=a5 I wouldn't use this command line option. I'd use a \special{papersize=...} which also records these dimensions in the XDV output file, helping xdvipdfmx to choose the proper paper format. -- Greetings Pete No project was ever c

Re: [XeTeX] Letterly template broken

2010-11-10 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 10.11.2010 um 15:45 schrieb Kai Hendry: No file letter.aux. [1 ! I can't write on file `letter.pdf'. (Press Enter to retry, or Control-D to exit; default file extension is `.pdf') Please type another file name for output: ! Emergency stop. \endgroup \...@typeset@protect

Re: [XeTeX] Letterly template broken

2010-11-10 Thread Kai Hendry
Does not work: hen...@webconverger testing$ ls -ld . letter.* drwxrwxr-x 2 hendry hendry 4096 Nov 10 14:41 . -rw-rw-r-- 1 hendry hendry8 Nov 10 14:41 letter.aux -rw-rw-r-- 1 hendry hendry 9467 Nov 10 14:41 letter.log -rw-rw-r-- 1 hendry hendry 333 Nov 10 14:21 letter.tex Works: hen...@h2 te

Re: [XeTeX] Specifying papersize with XeTeX

2010-11-10 Thread John Was
Thanks Pete --papersize=a5 was just a quick fix since I hadn't expected the printer to have any problems (he hasn't for the last ten years but apparently there's a new machine...). I'll look into this properly but someone else has already mentioned the papersize \special, which I'm sure is wh

Re: [XeTeX] Letterly template broken

2010-11-10 Thread Peter Dyballa
It looks OK... no further guess yet! Maybe the webconverger runs on its platform, the host, with its identity while on the other systems it is *your* guest with *your* permissions... -- Greetings Pete If it does exist, it's out of date. – Arnold's Second

Re: [XeTeX] Letterly template broken

2010-11-10 Thread Ross Moore
Hi Peter, Sent from my iPad On 11/11/2010, at 3:10 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote: > > It looks OK... no further guess yet! Maybe the webconverger runs on its > platform, the host, with its identity while on the other systems it is *your* > guest with *your* permissions... Yes, that would be my gu

[XeTeX] Font variant selection in Fontspec/Mathspec options incomplete

2010-11-10 Thread Christian Schmidt
Hello everyone, This is my first post on this mailing list and I felt the need to join, because I think I have discovered something to discuss. I've been using XeLaTeX for quite a while already to compile my TeX files to PDF. Now, while I was playing around with font selection features of the m

Re: [XeTeX] Specifying papersize with XeTeX

2010-11-10 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Although I may not really understand the question, if you take a look at the manual of the memoir class, it is precisely explained how (La)TeX treats the page size. Also, the geometry package lets you select any page size you want. Basically, (La)TeX does not care about the page size. For (La)Te

Re: [XeTeX] Specifying papersize with XeTeX

2010-11-10 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 11.11.2010 um 00:25 schrieb Wilfred van Rooijen: Although I may not really understand the question, if you take a look at the manual of the memoir class, it is precisely explained how (La)TeX treats the page size. Also, the geometry package lets you select any page size you want. Wil

Re: [XeTeX] Letterly template broken

2010-11-10 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 10.11.2010 um 22:33 schrieb Ross Moore: On 11/11/2010, at 3:10 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote: It looks OK... no further guess yet! Maybe the webconverger runs on its platform, the host, with its identity while on the other systems it is *your* guest with *your* permissions... Yes, that w

Re: [XeTeX] Font variant selection in Fontspec/Mathspec options incomplete

2010-11-10 Thread Diederick C. Niehorster
Hi Pinfeng, I'm no expert on this but two things to help this issue along: - did you update to the very latest version of the packages? - could you post the relevant package versions here, use \listfiles? Best, Dee On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 16:39, Christian Schmidt wrote: > > Hello everyone, > Th