Re: [XeTeX] Linux Libertine & diacritic stacking

2010-03-13 Thread Arash Zeini
On Saturday 13 March 2010, Joshua and Amy wrote: > The developer of the Linux Libertine font package is probably going to add > diacritic-stacking to the font's capabilities (mark-to-mark positioning?). > > I've asked for circumflex + breve. Are there other diacritics that > potential users of Li

Re: [XeTeX] Dictionary typesetting

2010-07-20 Thread Arash Zeini
On Tuesday 20 July 2010, Alastair M. Paterson wrote: > Hi! > > Does anyone know if there is a set of macros or a standard method for > typesetting dictionaries in XeTeX? > > I'm looking at the possibility of a three language dictionary. > > Thanks > > Alastair Hello, I don't know about dictio

Re: [XeTeX] Diacritic characters wrongly positioned

2010-11-25 Thread Arash Zeini
On Thursday 25 November 2010, Raphael Haase wrote: > Dear *, > > I have an issue with diacritic characters and possibly XeTeX: > > Diacritic characters like ē (e with a bar on top) seem to be rendered on > top of the previous one and do not take any space, so the following one is > put in the pla

[XeTeX] Bidi, memoir and footnotes

2011-02-10 Thread Arash Zeini
Hello, I am using Bidi v1.0.3 as part of a packaged TeXLive installation on a Debian unstable: "XeTeX 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (TeX Live 2009/Debian) // kpathsea version 5.0.0 // Copyright 2009 SIL International and Jonathan Kew." I have a fairly complex master document to hold all the pieces of

Re: [XeTeX] Bidi, memoir and footnotes

2011-02-10 Thread Arash Zeini
On Thursday 10 February 2011, Heiko Oberdiek wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 08:07:26PM +0000, Arash Zeini wrote: > > "! No room for a new \count . > > http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=noroom > No room for a new `thing' > > In short: \usepackage{

Re: [XeTeX] Bidi, memoir and footnotes

2011-02-10 Thread Arash Zeini
On Thursday 10 February 2011, Vafa Khalighi wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Arash Zeini wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am using Bidi v1.0.3 as part of a packaged TeXLive installation on a > > Debian > > unstable: > > "XeTeX 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.

[XeTeX] Multi directional paragraphs

2011-02-14 Thread Arash Zeini
Hello, I am using the verse environment (\begin{verse}) in the memoir class to format quotations from manuscripts. I have one LTR section followed by a RTL section. I have been using verse as opposed to quote or quotation because of its hanging indent. While the \setRTL and \setLTR commands of

Re: [XeTeX] Multi directional paragraphs

2011-02-15 Thread Arash Zeini
On Tuesday 15 February 2011, Vafa Khalighi wrote: > minimal example? Attached. \documentclass{memoir} \usepackage{bidi} \usepackage{xltxtra} \newfontfamily{\farsi}[Script=Arabic]{IranNastaliq} \begin{document} Bidi \bidiversion . To demonstrate how in RTL mode the verse environment disrespects the

Re: [XeTeX] Multi directional paragraphs

2011-02-15 Thread Arash Zeini
On Tuesday 15 February 2011, Vafa Khalighi wrote: > I dont really consider this a bug. With verse environment, you set right > and left skips and so if it is already LTR, you have set your right and > left skips for LTR and putting \setRTL would not change right and left > skip because they already

Re: [XeTeX] Multi directional paragraphs

2011-02-15 Thread Arash Zeini
On Tuesday 15 February 2011, Vafa Khalighi wrote: > As I said this is not a bug and it happens because once inside verse > environment based on the direction of outside, right and left skips are > set, then you can not change it because they are already set. This is > exactly the same scenario with

Re: [XeTeX] Bidi, memoir and footnotes

2011-03-11 Thread Arash Zeini
On Thursday 10 February 2011, Vafa Khalighi wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Arash Zeini wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am using Bidi v1.0.3 as part of a packaged TeXLive installation on a > > Debian > > unstable: > > "XeTeX 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.

Re: [XeTeX] Bidi, memoir and footnotes

2011-03-12 Thread Arash Zeini
r wrote: > Hi Arash, > > Vafa already replied before that Bidi 1.0.3 is very old. Try to get a > hold of the newest version and see if that solves your problem. Try, > for instance, the update mechanism that probably comes with your tex > distribution. > > Best, > Dee >

Re: [XeTeX] Text output garbled after system update -- your ideas?

2011-04-18 Thread Arash Zeini
On Monday 18 April 2011, Kārlis Repsons wrote: > On Friday 15 April 2011 07:32:40 Ulrike Fischer wrote: > > Am Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:37:40 + schrieb Kārlis Repsons: > > > So the question is: > > > if I choose to: > > > * keep contents of a full TeXLive installation; > > > * not link it's fonts fo

Re: [XeTeX] Text output garbled after system update -- your ideas?

2011-04-18 Thread Arash Zeini
On Monday 18 April 2011, Peter Dyballa wrote: > Am 18.04.2011 um 18:45 schrieb Arash Zeini: > > This is a known problem with the latest version of Linux Libertine. > > TeX Live 2010 comes with version 4.8.7. From August 2010. This is > almost one year ago. Enough time to te

[XeTeX] Junicode [was Re: Diacritic marks in various fonts]

2011-06-23 Thread Arash Zeini
On Thursday 23 June 2011, Peter Baker wrote: > I'm working towards a new release, perhaps in late July or August. If > anyone is having a problem with Junicode, I'd love to hear from you > between now and then. Hello, In italics, Junicode seems to be unable to display the "combining tilde below

[XeTeX] Polyglossia "broken"?

2011-09-21 Thread Arash Zeini
Hello, I updated my vanilla TexLive 2011 installation two days ago and have since been unable to compile my document correctly. Nothing has changed in my document but I now receive 181 error messages, most of which relate to polyglossia. Here are some examples: Package polyglossia Warning: \en

Re: [XeTeX] Polyglossia "broken"?

2011-09-21 Thread Arash Zeini
On Wednesday 21 September 2011, Zdenek Wagner wrote: > 2011/9/21 Arash Zeini : > > Hello, > > See the previous thread open by Alex Hamann Thanks for your prompt response. I am unable to locate a recent and relevant thread started by Alex Hamann. Vafa's suggestion of lo

Re: [XeTeX] Polyglossia "broken"?

2011-09-21 Thread Arash Zeini
your question was on the > TeXLive mailng list; that is why... > > fontspec does not load xkeyval anymore (but used to load xkeyval), > polyglossia uses xkeyval but does not load it since it loads fontspec and > fontspec used to load xkeyval anymore. > > 2011/9/21 Arash Zein

Re: [XeTeX] Polyglossia "broken"?

2011-09-21 Thread Arash Zeini
On Wednesday 21 September 2011, VAFA KHALIGHI wrote: > fontspec loads xunicode and xunicode has been updated recently. What > happens if you load exaccent before polyglossia? Nothing. I get the same error messages as before. Arash > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Arash Zei

Re: [XeTeX] Polyglossia "broken"?

2011-09-21 Thread Arash Zeini
On Wednesday 21 September 2011, Ulrike Fischer wrote: > Am Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:23:50 +0100 schrieb Arash Zeini: > >> fontspec loads xunicode and xunicode has been updated recently. What > >> happens if you load exaccent before polyglossia? > > > > Nothing. I get

[XeTeX] TL update and Linux Libertine O ligatures

2011-12-26 Thread Arash Zeini
Hello, I hope you are all enjoying your holidays. Today I finally ran "tlmgr update" on my TL 2011 installation on Linux, which updated 138 packages. Since then, using Linux Libertine O, xelatex renders the sequence "fi" as "- ": "find" -> "- nd". No such problems with Linux Libertine or Times Ne

Re: [XeTeX] TL update and Linux Libertine O ligatures

2011-12-27 Thread Arash Zeini
On 27 December 2011 14:42, Ulrike Fischer wrote: > Am Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:13:06 + schrieb Arash Zeini: > >> Hello, >> >> I hope you are all enjoying your holidays. >> >> Today I finally ran "tlmgr update" on my TL 2011 installation on >>

Re: [XeTeX] TL update and Linux Libertine O ligatures

2011-12-29 Thread Arash Zeini
On 27 December 2011 17:37, Ulrike Fischer wrote: > Am Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:22:06 + schrieb Arash Zeini: > >>>> Today I finally ran "tlmgr update" on my TL 2011 installation on >>>> Linux, which updated 138 packages. Since then, using Linux Libertine >

[XeTeX] Linux Libertine

2012-11-26 Thread Arash Zeini
Hello, For the past few weeks "Linux Libertine O" has not been working properly with XeLaTeX (included as part of my Vanilla TeXLive 2012 installation on Debian). Some combining diacritics and few other characters which were fine before have stopped working and show up as empty boxes. If I invoke

Re: [XeTeX] Linux Libertine

2012-11-26 Thread Arash Zeini
ittle test with some \textit{italics}. \end{document} Best wishes, Arash On 26 November 2012 14:03, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:57:28AM +, Arash Zeini wrote: >> Hello, >> >> For the past few weeks "Linux Libertine O" has not been working >

Re: [XeTeX] Linux Libertine

2012-11-26 Thread Arash Zeini
Should have included a PDF for the ME, sorry! On 26 November 2012 15:29, Arash Zeini wrote: > OK, after this afternoon's update to TexLive the combining macron's > problem is solved. But I still get bold italics, if I use \textit{}. > > Minimal example: > > \documen

Re: [XeTeX] Linux Libertine

2012-11-27 Thread Arash Zeini
Thanks for all the feedback. On 26 November 2012 23:57, Gildas Hamel wrote: > I use > \usepackage[libertine={Ligatures=TeX, > Numbers=OldStyle}]% > {libertineotf} > where I previously used Linux Libertine O. > --gildas Gildas, do you prefer the above because you experience similar pr

Re: [XeTeX] Linux Libertine

2012-11-27 Thread Arash Zeini
On 26 November 2012 16:30, Tobias Schoel wrote: > Tested your minimal example. Got no bold font for me. > > Can you find all instances of Linux Libertine on your computer and rename > them to .backup (or whatever) except for your preferred instance of the open > type font. > > Then rehash your tex

Re: [XeTeX] Linux Libertine

2012-11-27 Thread Arash Zeini
I have now made sure that the map files are in correct order by using --syncwithtrees. The map entries disabled, I also issued mktexlsr, but this does not correct the bold italics problem. -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: htt

Re: [XeTeX] Linux Libertine

2012-11-27 Thread Arash Zeini
On 27 November 2012 12:18, Peter Dyballa wrote: > > Am 27.11.2012 um 11:56 schrieb Arash Zeini: > >> As I said the problems started with the >> inclusion of the libertine- and biolinum-type1 packages. > > On Linux you have the libfontconfig based font service. It use

Re: [XeTeX] Linux Libertine

2012-11-29 Thread Arash Zeini
"(s) file: "/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/newtx/fxlri-7letters.pfb"(s) After "(sudo) fc-cache -v" I see these lines: /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/libertine: skipping, existing cache is valid: 10 fonts, 0 dirs /usr/local/

Re: [XeTeX] Linux Libertine

2012-11-29 Thread Arash Zeini
On 29 November 2012 15:37, Khaled Hosny wrote: [...] > The "Linux Libertine O" fonts were changed by mistake to "Linux > Libertine T" (something was intended only for Type1 fonts to mitigate > the original issue but propagated to the OpenType fonts), it should be > fixed in next TeX Live update. >

[XeTeX] The arcs package

2013-08-25 Thread Arash Zeini
Hello, Since the upgrade to TeX Live 2013, the arcs package behaves strangely. It draws the desired arc under the respective characters, but a string like "5.0pt" will always precede the characters with the arc. Has anyone else noticed this problem? I have tried this MWE with two different fonts

Re: [XeTeX] The arcs package

2013-08-25 Thread Arash Zeini
ith straight forward latex; so it seems a problem > with the arcs package? > > Rembrandt > > > On 8/25/13 9:42 AM, Arash Zeini wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Since the upgrade to TeX Live 2013, the arcs package behaves strangely. It > > draws the desired

Re: [XeTeX] The arcs package

2013-08-26 Thread Arash Zeini
Thank you, all, for your feedback. I can wait for the fix to be applied. Joseph: if you hear anything, could you please post it here? Many thanks and best wishes, Arash On 25 August 2013 16:02, Joseph Wright wrote: > On 25/08/2013 16:00, Joseph Wright wrote: > > Nothing to do with XeTeX: it's

Re: [XeTeX] The arcs package

2018-03-16 Thread Arash Zeini
h On 26 August 2013 at 17:25, Arash Zeini wrote: > Thank you, all, for your feedback. I can wait for the fix to be applied. > > Joseph: if you hear anything, could you please post it here? > > Many thanks and best wishes, > Arash > > > On 25 August 2013 16:02, Joseph

Re: [XeTeX] The arcs package

2018-03-16 Thread Arash Zeini
You should "adopt" the package and become the new maintainer, perhaps. > > Wilfred > > > > On Friday, March 16, 2018 7:33 PM, Arash Zeini > wrote: > > > Hi Everyone, > > A couple of years ago, I raised an issue I had encountered with the arcs > p

Re: [XeTeX] The arcs package

2018-03-20 Thread Arash Zeini
e on this > list can provide some more info. > > Wilfred > > > > On Saturday, March 17, 2018 4:25 AM, Arash Zeini > wrote: > > > I don't have the necessary skills to maintain the code and I was not the > one who came up with the modifications. I'd be