Re: [XeTeX] babel

2012-09-12 Thread FC
2012/9/4 Zdenek Wagner > That's bad news! I thought that François Charette implemented French > in Polyglossia well. What is missing? Maybe it could be implemented > fast. And are there good OpenType fonts for French? I know that French > uses tiny spaces preceding double punctuation. This is a s

Re: [XeTeX] babel

2012-09-12 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 3:11 PM, François Charette wrote: > While I am on this list let me ask you a related question. When Arthur took > up maintenance of polyglossia last year his main goal was to support > LuaLaTeX as well as XeLaTeX. Any news about this? About a month ago Arthur Reutenauer po

Re: [XeTeX] babel

2012-09-12 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Joel C. Salomon wrote: > . …and of course I copied his typo. That should be , of course. —Joel -- Subscriptions, Archive, and Lis

Re: [XeTeX] babel

2012-09-12 Thread Steve White
Hi, Zdenek, again I've come in to the middle of a conversation... It's not clear to me how to implement the rules, or who is responsible for implementing them (or quite what the rules ought to be). Yes it is possible to implement, for instance, a french-specific kerning in an OpenType font, that

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

2012-09-12 Thread Peter Dyballa
Hello! To me it seems that some problems with XeTeX come from using inappropriate fonts, fonts which don't have the glyphs needed, don't support a particular script or the language which will be used with the particular script to typeset the text. Partly it's the fault of the users not explorin

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

2012-09-12 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2012/9/12 Peter Dyballa : > Hello! > > To me it seems that some problems with XeTeX come from using inappropriate > fonts, fonts which don't have the glyphs needed, don't support a particular > script or the language which will be used with the particular script to > typeset the text. Partly it'

Re: [XeTeX] babel

2012-09-12 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 03:34:19PM -0400, Joel C. Salomon wrote: > About a month ago Arthur Reutenauer posted to this list (and some > others) that experimental support for LuaTeX had been added in the > development version he maintains at > . The suppor