[XeTeX] New feature planned for xetex

2016-02-18 Thread Jonathan Kew
This is a pretty specialized feature, likely to be interest only to a small minority of users. But for those it concerns, here's something that is "coming soon to a XeTeX near you"... I've recently implemented a new feature, controlled by the integer parameter \XeTeXinterwordspaceshaping.

Re: [XeTeX] New feature planned for xetex

2016-02-18 Thread Philip Taylor
Jonathan Kew wrote: > When \XeTeXinterwordspaceshaping is greater than 0, XeTeX will attempt > to support fonts where the width of inter-word spaces may vary > contextually, depending on the preceding and following text. This is > needed by fonts such as SIL's Awami Nastaliq (in development) wher

Re: [XeTeX] New feature planned for xetex

2016-02-18 Thread Jiang Jiang
Hi Jonathan,I suppose not everyone have a chance to build and try this yet. By any chance you can provide a PDF test case demonstrating the feature? Then perhaps more people can comment.- Jiang _ From: Jonathan Kew Sent: 星期四, 二月 18, 2016 7:00 下午 Subject: [XeTeX]

Re: [XeTeX] New feature planned for xetex

2016-02-18 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 18/2/16 12:51, Philip Taylor wrote: Jonathan Kew wrote: When \XeTeXinterwordspaceshaping is greater than 0, XeTeX will attempt to support fonts where the width of inter-word spaces may vary contextually, depending on the preceding and following text. This is needed by fonts such as SIL's Aw

Re: [XeTeX] New feature planned for xetex

2016-02-18 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 18/2/16 14:02, Jiang Jiang wrote: Hi Jonathan, I suppose not everyone have a chance to build and try this yet. By any chance you can provide a PDF test case demonstrating the feature? Then perhaps more people can comment. - Jiang OK, I'm attaching three PDFs, all showing the same text set w

Re: [XeTeX] New feature planned for xetex

2016-02-18 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 18/2/16 14:02, Jiang Jiang wrote: Hi Jonathan, I suppose not everyone have a chance to build and try this yet. By any chance you can provide a PDF test case demonstrating the feature? Then perhaps more people can comment. Here's an example in Urdu script. There are 3 pages, all containing th

Re: [XeTeX] New feature planned for xetex

2016-02-18 Thread Zdenek Wagner
Hi Jonathan, the Urdu sample looks good to me. Could you try to typeset just آگرہ? This word looks quite bad in many fonts but it might be nice in Awami (at least characters آک look nice). Zdeněk Wagner http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz 2016-02-18 15:51 GMT+01

Re: [XeTeX] New feature planned for xetex

2016-02-18 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 18/2/16 15:12, Zdenek Wagner wrote: Hi Jonathan, the Urdu sample looks good to me. Could you try to typeset just آگرہ? This word looks quite bad in many fonts but it might be nice in Awami (at least characters آک look nice). Just for you... JK آگرہ.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document

Re: [XeTeX] New feature planned for xetex

2016-02-18 Thread Zdenek Wagner
Thank you, it is beautiful. Zdeněk Wagner http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz 2016-02-18 16:57 GMT+01:00 Jonathan Kew : > On 18/2/16 15:12, Zdenek Wagner wrote: > >> Hi Jonathan, >> >> the Urdu sample looks good to me. Could you try to typeset just آگرہ? >> This

Re: [XeTeX] New feature planned for xetex

2016-02-18 Thread Philip Taylor
Jonathan Kew wrote: > Just for you... Fascinating. If I try to open that file in Windows 7, Adobe Acrobat opens a completely unrelated file; if I rename it to JK.pdf, all is well. Very odd. Philip Taylor -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List in

Re: [XeTeX] New feature planned for xetex

2016-02-18 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2016-02-18 17:10 GMT+01:00 Philip Taylor : > > > Jonathan Kew wrote: > > > Just for you... > > Fascinating. If I try to open that file in Windows 7, Adobe Acrobat > opens a completely unrelated file; if I rename it to JK.pdf, all is > well. Very odd. > It may be related to Unicode in file names

Re: [XeTeX] New feature planned for xetex

2016-02-18 Thread Akira Kakuto
Currently, this feature is implemented only in the "contextual-space" branch of the code at sourceforge; anyone interested in testing it will need to check out and build the code from there. I have tried to build a binary for win32: http://members2.jcom.home.ne.jp/wt1357ak/xetex-ctx-spc.zip I

Re: [XeTeX] New feature planned for xetex

2016-02-18 Thread Zdenek Wagner
I have compared both and personally I like Jonathan's version. Of course, I am not an expert. I do not have any collection of high quality Urdu documents. I have only seen Mirza Ghalib's manuscript in his museum in New Delhi and some Urdu documents in the museum in LaL Qila. My knowledge of Urdu is

Re: [XeTeX] New feature planned for xetex

2016-02-18 Thread Kamal Abdali
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 7:38 PM, Zdenek Wagner wrote: > I have compared both and personally I like Jonathan's version. Of course, > I am not an expert. I do not have any collection of high quality Urdu > documents. I have only seen Mirza Ghalib's manuscript in his museum in New > Delhi and some U

[XeTeX] Graphite vulnerability

2016-02-18 Thread maxwell
There is a vulnerability in the Graphite library: http://news.softpedia.com/news/vulnerability-in-font-processing-library-affects-linux-openoffice-firefox-500027.shtml Reportedly the problems have been patched in version 1.3.5 of Graphite2. But the version of xetex I'm using (3.14159265-2.6-0.99

Re: [XeTeX] Graphite vulnerability

2016-02-18 Thread Akira Kakuto
Will the next TeX Live distro's version of xetex use >= v.1.3.5? Yes, TeX Live 2016 will use Graphite2-version >= 1.3.5. Best, Akira -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] New feature planned for xetex

2016-02-18 Thread Philip Taylor
Akira Kakuto wrote: > I have tried to build a binary for win32: > > http://members2.jcom.home.ne.jp/wt1357ak/xetex-ctx-spc.zip > > I don't yet test myself. > I'll remove this file in due time. /Arigato gozaimasu/, Akira-san. May I ask "what is the recommended way of testing new Win-32 releas