Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, colour, \special, \shipout

Ross Moore wrote: Hi Philip. On 20 Jun 2020, at 12:08 am, Philip Taylor > wrote: XeTeX does what is expected if one uses \special {background cmyk 0.83 0.82 0.21 0.60} and ships out pages in the normal way; however, if \shipout is invoked directly, th

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, colour, \special, \shipout

On 19/06/2020 15:08, Philip Taylor wrote: XeTeX does what is expected if one uses \special {background cmyk 0.83 0.82 0.21 0.60} and ships out pages in the normal way; however, if \shipout is invoked directly, the shipped out boxes have a transparent ground.  How should the background colour of

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, colour, \special, \shipout

Jonathan Kew wrote: [...] To work, the background \special must have already been seen by the driver at the time the page is shipped out, or it must be part of the content of the page. Aha, perfect, fully understood and that explains everything.  Thank you Jonathan, I can now revert to shi

Re: [XeTeX] trying to enable grantha script with teckit

The LaTeX input below gave this output: [image: image.png] \documentclass[11pt]{report} \usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont{Noto Sans Grantha} [Mapping=velthuis-sanskrit-grantha] \begin{document} a aa i ii u uu .r .R k ka kaa khi khii gu guu gh.r gh.R atha trairaa"sike kara.nasuutrav.rttam--