Re: [XeTeX] Primitive parity, \expanded and \Ucharcat

2018-05-13 Thread Joseph Wright
On 03/05/2018 22:38, Joseph Wright wrote: Hello all, In adding features to expl3, the LaTeX team have been making use of a variety of 'new' (post-e-TeX) 'utility' primitives in various engines. Almost always these originate in pdfTeX and have migrated to other engines, but are not in any way

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] Primitive parity, \expanded and \Ucharcat

2018-05-13 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 13/05/2018 10:57, Joseph Wright wrote: Hello all, Modulo any issues that show up in testing, all of the above is now done and on my GitHub fork (https://github.com/josephwright/texlive-source/tree/Ucharcat: this branch has 'all the stuff' on it). I know that https://github.com/texjporg/t

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] Primitive parity, \expanded and \Ucharcat

2018-05-13 Thread Joseph Wright
On 13/05/2018 12:23, Jonathan Kew wrote: On 13/05/2018 10:57, Joseph Wright wrote: Hello all, Modulo any issues that show up in testing, all of the above is now done and on my GitHub fork (https://github.com/josephwright/texlive-source/tree/Ucharcat: this branch has 'all the stuff' on it).

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] Primitive parity, \expanded and \Ucharcat

2018-05-13 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 13/05/2018 13:15, Joseph Wright wrote: On 13/05/2018 12:23, Jonathan Kew wrote: On 13/05/2018 10:57, Joseph Wright wrote: Hello all, Modulo any issues that show up in testing, all of the above is now done and on my GitHub fork (https://github.com/josephwright/texlive-source/tree/Ucharcat:

[XeTeX] how to customize sorting order of characters in index

2018-05-13 Thread Kamal Abdali
I'm using polyglossia and imakeindex to produce an Urdu document. The sorting order of letters in the index is wrong. The order is according to Arabic, but Urdu has about 9 more letters which are being pushed after the Arabic letters in the index. I couldn't find an option to fix this in the imakei

Re: [XeTeX] how to customize sorting order of characters in index

2018-05-13 Thread Zdenek Wagner
I do not know how to do it in imakeindex but I could do it in xindy. I have an Urdu-Hindi dictionary so I can find the sort oder of most characters but I do not know where to put bari yeh (ے), dochashmee he (ھ) and maybe a few more characters that never appear at the beginning of the word. This is

Re: [XeTeX] how to customize sorting order of characters in index

2018-05-13 Thread Kamal Abdali
Zdeněk, Thanks for responding promptly and offering to help. The Urdu letters, in their sorting order, are as follows: آ ا ب پ ت ٹ ث ج چ ح خ د ڈ ذ ر ڑ ز ژ س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ک گ ل م ن ں و ہ ھ ء ی ے As you mentioned the following letters never start a word: ھ ء ے And ں occurs only at th