Re: [XeTeX] Text output garbled after system update -- your ideas?

2011-04-15 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:37:40 + schrieb Kārlis Repsons: > One thing confuses me: > if I install and use Linux Libertine with help of my packaging system (system- > wide), it gives just about what I desire. System folders have nothing really > more than the actual fonts and a few collateral fi

Re: [XeTeX] Two font data problems -- newbie question

2011-04-15 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 15.04.2011 um 01:29 schrieb Dan Drake: Still pursuing other leads on this part of the weirdity. Put the word "draft" among the options with which you load a documentclass. Then you'll find black bars at the right end of over- full lines. Now you can put these words into a "\showhyphen

Re: [XeTeX] Text output garbled after system update -- your ideas?

2011-04-15 Thread Kārlis Repsons
On Thursday 14 April 2011 14:31:00 Joke de Buhr wrote: > I've got the exact same problem but it's a bit worse here: > > - I've got a system wide installed libertine font installed via apt > - A system wide libertine font within texlive 2009 installed via apt > - A texmf wide libertine font with

[XeTeX] when one needs more than XeTeX+OT fonts? (was: Text output garbled..)

2011-04-15 Thread Kārlis Repsons
On Friday 15 April 2011 07:32:40 Ulrike Fischer wrote: > Am Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:37:40 + schrieb Kārlis Repsons: > >> The case is different for different font formats: pdftex/latex+dvips > >> still needs type1 fonts. So removing them could be a problem. > > > > Those, which live within TeXLive

Re: [XeTeX] when one needs more than XeTeX+OT fonts? (was: Text output garbled..)

2011-04-15 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
> This far I used only xelatex and was quite happy with what it can produce, so > I got curious: what is that pdftex, dvi, ps stuff all for, when there is > xelatex, and pdf viewers are the most common choice? Er... because XeTeX was created much later than the formers? Your question as such

Re: [XeTeX] when one needs more than XeTeX+OT fonts?

2011-04-15 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Kārlis Repsons wrote: This far I used only xelatex and was quite happy with what it can produce, so I got curious: what is that pdftex, dvi, ps stuff all for, when there is xelatex, and pdf viewers are the most common choice? I realize there ought to be a lot of reason for why they exist, but

Re: [XeTeX] when one needs more than XeTeX+OT fonts?

2011-04-15 Thread Kārlis Repsons
On Friday 15 April 2011 10:27:29 Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > Kārlis Repsons wrote: > > This far I used only xelatex and was quite happy with what it can > > produce, so I got curious: what is that pdftex, dvi, ps stuff all for, > > when there is xelatex, and pdf viewers are the most c

Re: [XeTeX] when one needs more than XeTeX+OT fonts?

2011-04-15 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
> In very simple words, I must say ! :) ... although Phil drives "a rather dirty black SAAB 9000" ;-) In his own words! Arthur -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] when one needs more than XeTeX+OT fonts? (was: Text output garbled..)

2011-04-15 Thread Kārlis Repsons
On Friday 15 April 2011 10:22:32 Arthur Reutenauer wrote: > > This far I used only xelatex and was quite happy with what it can > > produce, so I got curious: what is that pdftex, dvi, ps stuff all for, > > when there is xelatex, and pdf viewers are the most common choice? > > Er... because XeTe

Re: [XeTeX] when one needs more than XeTeX+OT fonts?

2011-04-15 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Kārlis Repsons wrote: I didn't intend asking anyone to remove compatibility. Just looking from the current perspective and trying to understand why, according to Philip, I drive a VW Beetle... No no : /we/ (the existing user base of TeX, PdfTeX, etc., ...) drive the VW Beetle (or, in my case

Re: [XeTeX] when one needs more than XeTeX+OT fonts? (was: Text output garbled..)

2011-04-15 Thread Alan Munn
On Apr 15, 2011, at 7:03 AM, Kārlis Repsons wrote: > On Friday 15 April 2011 10:22:32 Arthur Reutenauer wrote: >>> This far I used only xelatex and was quite happy with what it can >>> produce, so I got curious: what is that pdftex, dvi, ps stuff all for, >>> when there is xelatex, and pdf viewer

Re: [XeTeX] when one needs more than XeTeX+OT fonts? (was: Text output garbled..)

2011-04-15 Thread Kārlis Repsons
On Friday 15 April 2011 11:28:02 Alan Munn wrote: > If you find xetex doing what you want, you have no reasons to change. Just I wonder what happens when the written material must be printed in a book (of course with technical side in mind)... Haven't tried ever, but it might be necessary, so wo

Re: [XeTeX] polyglossia problem Miktex 2.9

2011-04-15 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Thu, 14 Apr 2011 22:33:37 + schrieb Ahmad Essam: > Package polyglossia Error: > The current roman font does not contain the Arabic script! > Please define \arabicfont with \newfontfamily. > The code that i used: > > \documentclass[a4paper,twoside,headsepline,10pt]{scrbook} > > \usepacka