Re: [XeTeX] babel

2012-09-06 Thread Tobias Schoel
Hi, [snip] Two possible smartfont techniques for such locale feature are: - alternate french punctuation marks with larger sidebearings: this is very unflexible for users (punctuation characters without additional space or with different space width are troublesome) but of course simplifies the

Re: [XeTeX] babel

2012-09-06 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2012/9/6 Tobias Schoel : > Hi, > > [snip] > > >> Two possible smartfont techniques for such locale feature are: >> - alternate french punctuation marks with larger sidebearings: this is >> very unflexible for users (punctuation characters without additional >> space or with different space width ar

Re: [XeTeX] babel

2012-09-06 Thread Georg Duffner
Hi, Am 2012-09-06 16:36, schrieb Zdenek Wagner: 2012/9/6 Tobias Schoel : It's simply checking for a flag that says "I want French Spacing" and then including white space (in whatever form) at appropriate places. You can take appropriate white space from the font according to your liking (there

Re: [XeTeX] babel

2012-09-06 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2012/9/6 Georg Duffner : > Hi, > > Am 2012-09-06 16:36, schrieb Zdenek Wagner: >> >> 2012/9/6 Tobias Schoel : >> >>> >>> It's simply checking for a flag that says "I want French Spacing" and >>> then >>> including white space (in whatever form) at appropriate places. You can >>> take >>> appropriat

Re: [XeTeX] FreeSerif not working for me in Devanagari

2012-09-06 Thread Zdenek Wagner
First, I do not see FreeSerif in your declarations. Anyway, it seems to me that FreeBSD comes with an old version of GNU FreeFont (several Linux distributions do the same). XeTeX then finds FreeSerif and FreeSans from your FreeBSD, not the new version distributed with TeX Live. The fonts distribute

Re: [XeTeX] FreeSerif not working for me in Devanagari

2012-09-06 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2012/9/7 Philip TAYLOR : > > > Zdenek Wagner wrote: > >> The fonts distributed with the system have always the highest >> priority, you canot override them by the configuration file. > > > I don't know what a configuration file is in this context, Zdeněk, > but the XeTeX documentation seems to make

Re: [XeTeX] FreeSerif not working for me in Devanagari

2012-09-06 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Zdenek Wagner wrote: Of course, you can specify exact font file in XeTeX (even using the fontspec package in XeLaTeX) but then the file is not portable. But isn't "non-portability" implicit in using system fonts, Zdeněk ? As this very thread has exposed, your version of font F may not be t

Re: [XeTeX] FreeSerif not working for me in Devanagari

2012-09-06 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2012/9/7 Philip TAYLOR : > > > > Zdenek Wagner wrote: > >> Of course, you can specify exact font file in XeTeX (even >> using the fontspec package in XeLaTeX) but then the file is not >> portable. > > > But isn't "non-portability" implicit in using system fonts, > Zdeněk ? As this very thread has

Re: [XeTeX] FreeSerif not working for me in Devanagari

2012-09-06 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Zdenek Wagner wrote: The fonts distributed with the system have always the highest priority, you canot override them by the configuration file. I don't know what a configuration file is in this context, Zdeněk, but the XeTeX documentation seems to make it explicit that one can select a parti

Re: [XeTeX] FreeSerif not working for me in Devanagari

2012-09-06 Thread mskala
On Fri, 7 Sep 2012, Zdenek Wagner wrote: > page breaks but will compile. If the font is loaded from a specific > path and another user does not have the font in the very same path, > the document will not compile. Of course, the best way would be if the If I need a document to be portable, I'll in

Re: [XeTeX] FreeSerif not working for me in Devanagari

2012-09-06 Thread Neal Delmonico
I am happy to say that I finally got it working. Those Freefonts were installed on my computer no less than four times (not counting texlive). Moodle installed them as did Joomla. I had installed them from the ports collection and apparently the system installed them, or perhaps it was X-windows.

Re: [XeTeX] FreeSerif not working for me in Devanagari

2012-09-06 Thread Shriramana Sharma
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Neal Delmonico wrote: > FreeSerif is a nice looking Devanagari font, but it is > still not up to where it needs to be in order for me to use it > regularly. I hope I'm not wrong but the FreeSerif Devanagari glyphs seem to be derived from Lohit Devanagari (https://

Re: [XeTeX] FreeSerif not working for me in Devanagari

2012-09-06 Thread bhutex
The FreeSerif is not a complete font. The font tables for Devnagari are not fully implemented in it. But FreeSans has the necessary tables so it works. I also suggested some corrections which were incorporated in to the FreeSans. DVG On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > O