Re: [XeTeX] Astrological symbols

2011-09-17 Thread John Was
Many thanks David - a properly designed book face at least! I only need them for reproducing some old correspondence in which they are alluded to a few times. Best John - Original Message - From: "David Perry" To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" Sent: 17 Sep

Re: [XeTeX] Astrological symbols

2011-09-17 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 16.09.2011 um 22:09 schrieb John Was: > Not a strictly XeTeX issue, but can anyone recommend a font (preferably > Unicode compliant but not absolutely essential) that contains the > astrological symbols (planets, zodiacal signs etc.: mainly Unicode range > 263D and following) and will look

[XeTeX] fontspec_if_current_script or \fontspec_if_script functions of fontspec

2011-09-17 Thread VAFA KHALIGHI
Why this always returns "non-RTL script"? \documentclass{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \makeatletter \newif\if@Latin \ExplSyntaxOn \fontspec_if_current_script:nTF {arab} {\@Latinfalse} {\@Latintrue} \ExplSyntaxOff \def\test{\if@Latin non-RTL script\else RTL script\fi} \newfontfamily\rlfo

Re: [XeTeX] Astrological symbols

2011-09-17 Thread John Was
Dear Peter Thanks for the list - I've got Arial of course since it has such a huge character set so can be useful for displaying symbols on screen - but it's so ugly! Best wishes John - Original Message - From: "Peter Dyballa" To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platfo

Re: [XeTeX] Astrological symbols

2011-09-17 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
John Was wrote: > Thanks for the list - I've got Arial of course ... but it's so ugly! Think "Bauhaus", think "minimalist" : if you're enough of a poseur [1], Arial will surely become the ultimate font of choice :-) ** Phil. [1] http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/17/lessons-from

Re: [XeTeX] Astrological symbols

2011-09-17 Thread John Was
Since I'm surrounded by Edwardian clutter (when I want to listen to a singer I wind a handle...) I don't think the minimalist approach will quite work here J. - Original Message - From: "Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)" To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms

Re: [XeTeX] Astrological symbols

2011-09-17 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
John Was wrote: > [W]when I want to listen to a singer I wind a handle... ... which rings a bell, and then your personal Early Music consort begs leave to enter ? ** Phil. -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/

Re: [XeTeX] Astrological symbols

2011-09-17 Thread John McChesney-Young
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 1:54 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote: > The following fonts contain the characters [sc., astrological symbols] your > looking for: > >        Apple Symbols >        Arial Unicode >        FreeMono >        FreeSerif >        Menlo >        MonoSpace Linux Libertine and Biolinum

Re: [XeTeX] Astrological symbols

2011-09-17 Thread John Was
Many thanks for that - it seems that I shall be labouring under an embarras de richesses. John - Original Message - From: "John McChesney-Young" To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" Sent: 17 September 2011 15:51 Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Astrological symbols On Sat

Re: [XeTeX] fontspec_if_current_script or \fontspec_if_script functions of fontspec

2011-09-17 Thread Will Robertson
On 2011-09-17 18:44:48 +0930, VAFA KHALIGHI said: Why this always returns "non-RTL script"? \newif\if@Latin \fontspec_if_current_script:nTF {arab} {\@Latinfalse} {\@Latintrue} I wondered if the documentation for this feature needed work, but it seems okay if a little terse: "Test whether t