Re: [XeTeX] [Off-topic] Persian versus Farsi

On 2011-06-11 10:27, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: If the Academy of Persian Language and Literature "clearly advocates the use of the word 'Persian' not 'Farsi' ", why does it then use the word 'Farsi' in its own na

Re: [XeTeX] [Off-topic] Persian versus Farsi

On 2011-06-11 11:29, John Was wrote: I would say the situation is always fluid in the nomenclature employed for foreign names, languages, and places - in English, at any rate. I'm sure the inhabitants of Livorno would be a little upset if English-speakers still referred to it as Leghorn (like

Re: [XeTeX] The future of XeTeX

It looks like something is happening there: https://github.com/reutenauer/polyglossia/commit/45f2cb69b1ea3c388a7888374fff71e7d1a1479a Am 01.08.2012 17:55 schrieb "Keith J. Schultz" : > Hi Zdenek, > > Do you know what a script is? XeTeX uses scripts! The the choice of a glyph > is governed by a sc

Re: [XeTeX] babel

Am 2012-09-04 13:23, schrieb Zdenek Wagner: 2012/9/4 Philip TAYLOR : Zdenek Wagner wrote: Language feature of a font. OK, now understood, but this does not address my concern regarding the countless extant fonts that do not have such a feature. Would it not be better to postulate a solut

Re: [XeTeX] babel

Hi, Am 2012-09-06 16:36, schrieb Zdenek Wagner: 2012/9/6 Tobias Schoel : It's simply checking for a flag that says "I want French Spacing" and then including white space (in whatever form) at appropriate places. You can take appropriate white space from the font according to your liking (there

Re: [XeTeX] can't access superscript glyphs outside Latin-1?

Am 2013-04-02 18:28, schrieb Eric Abrahamsen: Khaled Hosny writes: On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 12:05:49AM +0800, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: If the font has labeled its sups incorrectly, is it possible to edit the font to fix it? Or any other solutions... You can do virtually any thing by editing t

[XeTeX] ZWNJ is being ignored

Hi, I’ve run across a bug in v.0..0 from tlcontrib and I’d like to know if this is still true: XeTeX 0..0 ignores uni200C (zero width non joiner) with latin script. It is needed for inhibiting ligatures at certain places in german. Babel provides a shorthand for this purpose ("|) whi

Re: [XeTeX] ZWNJ is being ignored

Am 2013-04-28 17:57, schrieb Khaled Hosny: On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 02:56:11PM +0200, Georg Duffner wrote: Hi, I’ve run across a bug in v.0..0 from tlcontrib and I’d like to know if this is still true: XeTeX 0..0 ignores uni200C (zero width non joiner) with latin script. It is needed

Re: [XeTeX] difficulty with ancient greek diacriticals in XeTeX with Gentium Plus

Am 18.07.2013 15:56, schrieb Richard Cobbe: This may be slightly OT, since I think it's a font problem rather than a XeTeX problem, but I'm hoping someone here may be able to give me a few pointers. If not, please forgive the noise. I recently switched from using Gentium (http://scripts.sil.org

Re: [XeTeX] difficulty with ancient greek diacriticals in XeTeX with Gentium Plus

Am 20.07.2013 21:00, schrieb Khaled Hosny: On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 06:56:49PM +0100, Jonathan Kew wrote: On 20/7/13 18:01, Richard Cobbe wrote: To summarize: it looks like there are some problems with Gentium Pro, and I'll send a list of all of the issues I've noticed to Lorna Evans off-list.

Re: [XeTeX] bold small caps, but no regular small caps

Am 01.08.2013 13:24, schrieb Khaled Hosny: On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 12:06:43PM +0200, Georg Duffner wrote: Hi, XeTeX’s behaviour in this case is mysterious. I tried Mike’s original tex file and got no smallcaps at all. After updating Charis to 4.114 (from 4.106) I got the same behaviour as him

Re: [XeTeX] bold small caps, but no regular small caps

Am 02.08.2013 18:38, schrieb Khaled Hosny: On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 12:40:28PM +0200, Georg Duffner wrote: Am 01.08.2013 13:24, schrieb Khaled Hosny: On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 12:06:43PM +0200, Georg Duffner wrote: Hi, XeTeX’s behaviour in this case is mysterious. I tried Mike’s original tex

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX PDF Glitch with Serbian Glyphs

Am 16.09.2013 22:16, schrieb Alessandro Ceschini: Serbian Cyrillic requires a peculiar localisation because some glyphs are different from the standard. The PDF produced by XeLaTeX however must have some glitch because if I try copy/paste from it to another document the characters affected by Ser

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX PDF Glitch with Serbian Glyphs

Am 17.09.2013 16:55, schrieb Alessandro Ceschini: Hello Ross, I attached the whole output, not just the pdf, in the even that you wish to check the .tex file as well. I've also attached the output, that is the pasted text from the .pdf as it appears on LO. The font is always the same, FreeSerif,

Re: [XeTeX] xetex and the unicode bidirectional algorithm.

Am 07.12.2013 01:28, schrieb Dominik Wujastyk: I'm sensing, I think, that you don't like that font, Khaled? Dominik :-) He’s not alone and the Arabic is not the only problem... Georg 2013/12/5 Khaled Hosny : Please, please, please, never ever use GNU free font for Arabic; it is the m

Re: [XeTeX] Using OpenType fonts of 2048 em-width glyphs with xelatex, using fontspec

Am 2015-11-02 um 10:03 schrieb Hugo Roy: > ↪ 2015-11-02 Mon 00:12, Simon Cozens : >> On 02/11/2015 04:41, Hugo Roy wrote: >>> The issue is that the fonts are in a 2048 em-wide PostScript size >>> instead of 1000 (I sometimes get a warning from FontForge that the >>> width should be 1000). >> >> I

Re: [XeTeX] Using OpenType fonts of 2048 em-width glyphs with xelatex, using fontspec

Am 2015-11-02 um 15:06 schrieb Hugo Roy: > ↪ 2015-11-02 Mon 11:58, Georg Duffner : >> Have you tried to compile the 2048upem font as a TTF to see if the >> problem was gone? I once saw problems with a 1024upem otf but can’t >> remember where it was. If scaling down is not a