Re: [XeTeX] Velthuis to Roman translit

2011-02-04 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 03.02.2011 um 18:58 schrieb Neal Delmonico: What is involved in writing a XeTeX TEC file? In the TECkit sources you can find the documentation and also samples. (I have them and can send you copies on private notice.) -- Greetings Pete "Klingon function calls do not have 'paramete

Re: [XeTeX] problem rendering unicode Devanagari dependent vowel signs and ligatures

2011-02-04 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 04.02.2011 um 03:45 schrieb Richard Cobbe: To me, it looks like the effects of Script=Devanagari are at least partly font-dependent. Exactly! Adding this option activates the font's particular support for this script. See the fontspec manual! -- Greetings Pete The most exciting

Re: [XeTeX] Velthuis to Roman translit

2011-02-04 Thread Dominik Wujastyk
This works for me (output attached): \documentclass[10pt,titlepage]{book} \usepackage{xltxtra} \usepackage{polyglossia} \setmainfont{Charis SIL} \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text} \newfontfamily\textsanskrit[Script=Devanagari,Mapping=RomDev]{Sahadeva} \begin{document} Hello world! \te

Re: [XeTeX] problem rendering unicode Devanagari dependent vowel signs and ligatures

2011-02-04 Thread Dominik Wujastyk
Ah, very interesting! Dominik On 3 February 2011 08:20, Leo Brouwer wrote: > I've run Richard's sample (with devamt.ttf, the IBM version of Devanagari > MT---apparently not an exact equivalent, as it doesn't render "trya" > correctly), and it appears to me that it's not the fonts, but the lack o

Re: [XeTeX] \XeTeXglyphbounds question

2011-02-04 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 4 Feb 2011, at 05:41, Adam Twardoch (List) wrote: > (Plain XeTeX, not XeLaTeX). > > Imagine I use a font which uses contextual alternates such as: > > > \font\samplefont = "Zapfino Extra LT Pro:+calt" at 72bp > > \samplefont > > \def \sampletext{finality} > \XeTeXuseglyphmetrics=1 > > \se

Re: [XeTeX] Velthuis to Roman translit

2011-02-04 Thread Neal Delmonico
There's the problem. I apparently don't have RomDev.map and tec installed. Doesn't it come with TeXLive? If not, how do I get it? On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 04:56:58 -0600, Dominik Wujastyk wrote: But I think there's another point. You've gone through some trouble to convert Velthuis to UTF8

Re: [XeTeX] Velthuis to Roman translit

2011-02-04 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 04.02.2011 um 14:39 schrieb Neal Delmonico: There's the problem. I apparently don't have RomDev.map and tec installed. Doesn't it come with TeXLive? No. If not, how do I get it? From the internet (via Google). The term somadeva is connected to it. Last autumn (in December?) it w

Re: [XeTeX] Velthuis to Roman translit

2011-02-04 Thread Dominik Wujastyk
All explained on my blog, http://cikitsa.blogspot.com, especially this post: - http://cikitsa.blogspot.com/2010/07/how-do-i-install-romdev-mapping-for.html Best, Dominik On 4 February 2011 14:39, Neal Delmonico wrote: > There's the problem. I apparently don't have RomDev.map and tec in

Re: [XeTeX] \XeTeXglyphbounds question

2011-02-04 Thread Adam Twardoch (List)
On 11-02-04 14:27, Jonathan Kew wrote: > Unfortunately, I don't think there's currently any way to do that. (Well, no > way within xetex, that is -- you could of course ship the box to the output > file, then post-process that with a tool of some kind to determine the glyph > ID, and then re-run

Re: [XeTeX] \XeTeXglyphbounds question

2011-02-04 Thread Adam Twardoch (List)
On 11-02-04 18:37, Adam Twardoch (List) wrote: > So, ideally something like \XeTeXboxbounds would be great: work the same > way as \XeTeXglyphbounds but for a box (taking 1, 2, 3, 4 as parameter, > and a box). Of course, if \XeTeXglyphmetrics=1, \XeTeXboxbounds2 (top) and \XeTeXboxbounds4 (bottom)

Re: [XeTeX] problem rendering unicode Devanagari dependent vowel signs and ligatures

2011-02-04 Thread Leo Brouwer
> > To me, it looks like the effects of Script=Devanagari are at least partly > font-dependent. With Sanskrit 2003, I need to have the Script setting > present, or it doesn't bother with conjuncts; it just sticks viramas > everywhere. Precisely the *opposite* is true with Devanagari MT. > > I've