[XeTeX] Newbie's XeTeX questions

2017-11-29 Thread Elof Ng
In the document named "XETEX, the Multilingual Lion: TEX meets Unicode and smart font technologies", Kew mentioned the e-TEX’s typesetting engine, saying XeTeX is in fact based on it, but I found nothing about the e-TEX. Is it same as PlainTeX? I have briefly read the XeTeX Reference guid, Co

Re: [XeTeX] Newbie's XeTeX questions

2017-11-29 Thread Zdenek Wagner
Hi, to put it simply, XeTeX is just TeX but it works internally in Unicode, accepts the source files in UTF-8 (BOM is accepted but is not mandatory) and can use TrueType and OpenType fonts installed in the operating system. This means that the \font primitive has other functionality. It is not nec

Re: [XeTeX] Newbie's XeTeX questions

2017-11-29 Thread Elof Ng
So XeTeX= Plain TeX +Unicode support and XeLaTeX = LaTeX +Unicode support? On 11/29/2017 09:53 PM, Zdenek Wagner wrote: Hi, to put it simply, XeTeX is just TeX but it works internally in Unicode, accepts the source files in UTF-8 (BOM is accepted but is not mandatory) and can use TrueType an

Re: [XeTeX] Newbie's XeTeX questions

2017-11-29 Thread Philip TAYLOR
On 29/11/2017 14:16, Elof Ng wrote: So XeTeX= Plain TeX +Unicode support and XeLaTeX = LaTeX +Unicode support? Don't overlook the fact that Xe[La]TeX supports platform fonts. This, to me, is perhaps even more important than its ability to support Unicode. Philip Taylor ---

Re: [XeTeX] Newbie's XeTeX questions

2017-11-29 Thread Elof Ng
How do you know how many fonts do you have in your system when you are editing the XeTeX? Just open the font directory? Do I have to use the font filename on the XeTeX editing? On 11/29/2017 10:36 PM, Philip TAYLOR wrote: On 29/11/2017 14:16, Elof Ng wrote: So XeTeX= Plain TeX +Unicode su

Re: [XeTeX] Newbie's XeTeX questions

2017-11-29 Thread Philip TAYLOR
On 29/11/2017 15:45, Elof Ng wrote: How do you know how many fonts do you have in your system when you are editing the XeTeX? Just open the font directory? Either Start / Control Panel / Fonts or open a program such as Microsoft Word and look in the Fonts drop-down from the Home tab. Do I

Re: [XeTeX] Newbie's XeTeX questions

2017-11-29 Thread maxwell
On 2017-11-29 10:45, Elof Ng wrote: How do you know how many fonts do you have in your system when you are editing the XeTeX? Just open the font directory? Under Linux, run fc-list (which you might need to install, at least I did under Ubuntu). You might need to edit the /etc/fonts/local.conf

Re: [XeTeX] Newbie's XeTeX questions

2017-11-29 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
>Under Linux, run fc-list (which you might need to install, at least I >did under Ubuntu).  You might need to edit the /etc/fonts/local.conf to >add additional directories where fonts live, which fc-list wouldn't >otherwise find. The same applies if you uses any modern Unix or Unix-like operati