Re: [XeTeX] epsdice package.

2011-07-19 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Andy Lin wrote: I'm kind of confused. Couldn't you use the ucharclasses package for this? Isn't this the precise reason it was created? Possibly, but how is one expected to learn of the existence of the package ? "TeXdoc ucharclasses" reports no hits, so it is not even possible to investiga

[XeTeX] What's this error: "pdf_link_obj(): passed invalid object." ?

2011-07-19 Thread Thomas Fehige
Hello again, I'm occasionally getting cryptic error messages like this in TeXworks' console window: - ** ERROR ** pdf_link_obj(): passed invalid object. Output file removed. ] [10fwrite: Invalid argument xelatex.exe:

Re: [XeTeX] What's this error: "pdf_link_obj(): passed invalid object." ?

2011-07-19 Thread Jérôme Étévé
Hi, You're probably trying to include a corrupted PDF. There's all sorts of ways a PDF can be broken (or not includable) , and it doesn't usually show in your pdf reader. This thread can help: http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2010-December/019618.html Cheers. J On 19 July 2011 10:10, Thomas Feh

Re: [XeTeX] What's this error: "pdf_link_obj(): passed invalid object." ?

2011-07-19 Thread Thomas Fehige
Hi, yes, thanks, it's probably something to do with a pdf file I'm including. The strange thing is that most times it works and sometimes it complains, without my changing anything about the included files. That doesn't make error tracking easier ;) Cheers -- Thomas Am 19.07.2011 11:49, sch

[XeTeX] not a specifically xetex question: how to put a character flush to right in centered environment?

2011-07-19 Thread Quang Minh Nguyen
Hi, I realize this is a basic question but I have a hard time finding the answer to my inquiry. I have a some centered environments (e.g. center, equation, align) and would like to put a character, such as the qed symbol, flush to the right. How would one achieve that. Thanks, Minh -- Nguyễn Qu

Re: [XeTeX] What's this error: "pdf_link_obj(): passed invalid object." ?

2011-07-19 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:57:32 +0200 schrieb Thomas Fehige: > Hi, > > yes, thanks, it's probably something to do with a pdf file I'm > including. In december there was a discussion where the error came from a broken pdf: http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2010-December/019653.html > The strange th

Re: [XeTeX] amsrefs and xeCJK don't play nice together

2011-07-19 Thread Simon Cozens
On 19/07/2011 10:26, Nathan Sidoli wrote: > When I collaborate with Japanese colleagues on work in Japanese we always end > up using pTeX, because the formatting of any of the CJK packages will never by > satisfactory for a native reader. Thanks. I've bitten the bullet and moved over to (u)p(la)te

Re: [XeTeX] epsdice package.

2011-07-19 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Yes, that is the right approach, but implementing it successfully requires use of \uccode & \uppercase, or \lccode and \lowercase, and the \uppercase/lowercase primitives are, in general, very poorly understood. Perhaps easier is to make use of the fact

Re: [XeTeX] not a specifically xetex question: how to put a character flush to right in centered environment?

2011-07-19 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi Quang, This may not answer your question directly, but for things like theorems, definitions, and proofs, take a look at the amsthm package. In almost all LaTeX class files environments for theorems, lemmas etc are defined, and with amsthm you can fine-tune those. For instance, if you use \b