Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures and searching in PDFs

2010-05-16 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On 05/10/2010 03:36 AM, Janusz S. Bień wrote: > On Mon, 10 May 2010 Paul Foley wrote: >> Try the following: >> >> \documentclass{article} >> \usepackage{xltxtra} >> \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text,Numbers=OldStyle,Ligatures={Required,Common,Rare}]{Junicode} >> >> \begin{document} >> Fifty afflicted

Re: [XeTeX] Maths font for Adobe Garamond

2010-05-18 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On 05/18/2010 09:03 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: >>Do you have any suggestions as to how one would proceed to generate a >>maths font as in the solution above beginning from a batch of *otf files? >>For example, does anyone have experience with MathKit for OpenType fonts? > > I haven't use Mat

Re: [XeTeX] XITS Math font - first beata

2010-06-05 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On 06/05/2010 04:18 AM, Will Robertson wrote: > If you ask me, I can add this as an option somewhere in the package. > (I've seen old-style figures in maths in examples before, but never "in > the wild".) I have, in A. N. Whitehead’s “An Introduction to Mathematics”; search for the text “other fun

[XeTeX] unicode-math (I think) redefines \slash

2010-08-11 Thread Joel C. Salomon
Using all packages as of TL ’10 pretest. At one point in my document I needed an optional line-break after a slash, but blah blah overfull line UNIX\slash Linux didn’t break. Inserting the line \show\slash showed me that \slash was now simply the character ‘/’. Even re-defining i

[XeTeX] How to specify Fontin Sans (has underscore in file names) with Fontspec?

2010-08-18 Thread Joel C. Salomon
I have downloaded the free font Fontin Sans from Jos Buivenga’s exljbris at . Trouble is, the small-caps style is provided as a separate font, so I need to use the “[BoldFont = …, SmallCapsFont = …]” style. Trouble with that is that the file names have

Re: [XeTeX] How to specify Fontin Sans (has underscore in file names) with Fontspec?

2010-08-18 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On 08/18/2010 02:55 PM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > Joel C. Salomon wrote: >> Trouble with that is that >> the file names have underscores, and the naïve invocation >> \setsansfont[ >> UprightFont= Fontin_Sans_R_45b, >>

[XeTeX] Asterisks in fontspec (Was re: How to specify Fontin Sans?)

2010-08-18 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On 08/18/2010 04:25 PM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > I also followed Khaled's suggestion (after downloading > and installing the font, and finding that it still > didn't find it), and Khaled's suggestion also worked > for me, but my code is very different to yours. Can > you explain h

[XeTeX] Asterisks in fontspec (Was re: How to specify Fontin Sans?)

2010-08-18 Thread Joel C. Salomon
(Ignore previous version; subtle but bad typo.) On 08/18/2010 04:25 PM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > I also followed Khaled's suggestion (after downloading > and installing the font, and finding that it still > didn't find it), and Khaled's suggestion also worked > for me, but my code

Re: [XeTeX] OldStyle symbols with Hoefler Text?

2010-08-19 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On 08/18/2010 01:44 PM, chagrins wrote: > With Adobe Garamond Pro, when I use > > \defaultfontfeatures{Numbers={Proportional,OldStyle}} > > ...it also outputs "lowercase" symbols - for example, the dollar sign > matches the numbers. > > However, in Hoefler Text, I can't get the symbols to match

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation "initiative"

2010-09-12 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On 09/12/2010 04:22 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: > OpenType Math is by itself in early stage. Only > two-three products make use of it. … and two of those are TeX. (Is there anything besides (parts of) MS Office, XɘTeX, & luaTeX that use OpenType Math?) > Even if this true, why so few peop

[XeTeX] wspr's realscripts & updated xelatex templates

2010-09-14 Thread Joel C. Salomon
I’ve not been following the recent back-and-forth regarding which XɘLaTeX packages are now obsolete, and which are compatible with LuaLaTeX. Right now my personal style files files have lines like these: \ifxetex \RequirePackage{fontspec, xunicode, xltxtra} \fi

[XeTeX] unicode-math breakage with newest TL '10 update

2010-09-14 Thread Joel C. Salomon
(Technically this is OT for the XɘTeX list, but I suspect the folks who can help me are here…) Minimal test case: % !TEX TS-program = lualatex \documentclass{minimal} \usepackage{unicode-math} \setmathfont{Cambria Math} \begin{document}

Re: [XeTeX] Problems with thickness of \frac rule and width of accents (\hat) with XeLaTeX

2010-09-19 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On 09/18/2010 10:46 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 07:20:53PM -0700, S. Ekin Kocabas wrote: >> As a side note, the prime symbol of XITS seems a little too thin compared to >> the computer modern one. Is there a way to make it thicker? When typesetting >> double column documents i

Re: [XeTeX] Fwd: PDFs and advanced font features

2010-10-29 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On 10/28/2010 12:55 PM, Bogdan Butnaru wrote: > So XeTeX isn’t technically mangling anything: it just uses the > private-area codepoints the font uses to encode the small caps/titling > caps/old-style digits. I just need it to stop doing that, somehow — > or, more specifically, to also remember and

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

2011-06-12 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On 06/11/2011 05:32 AM, Vafa Khalighi wrote: > So Iranians from the first day called their country Eran or Iran and > Greeks and West world called it Persia. There is no disagreement between > Iranians for the English version of the language. All Iranians believe > that the language should be calle

Re: [XeTeX] Current Hebrew month spelled incorrectly in Polyglossia

2011-11-23 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On 11/23/2011 01:41 AM, Ari Meir Brodsky wrote: > The current Hebrew month is spelled incorrectly when using > \texthebrew{\today} in Polyglossia. It seems that the error is in line 58 > of hebrewcal.sty, where the name השון should be changed to חשון. Is there an option to use the full name מרחשו

Re: [XeTeX] The future of XeTeX

2012-07-30 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Philip TAYLOR wrote: > I have held back from experimenting with LuaTeX because I have > been led to believe, from this list and elsewhere, that LuaTeX > and XeTeX are not in 1:1 correspondence in terms of the syntax > and semantics of some non-Lua-related features.

Re: [XeTeX] babel

2012-09-12 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 3:11 PM, François Charette wrote: > While I am on this list let me ask you a related question. When Arthur took > up maintenance of polyglossia last year his main goal was to support > LuaLaTeX as well as XeLaTeX. Any news about this? About a month ago Arthur Reutenauer po

Re: [XeTeX] babel

2012-09-12 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Joel C. Salomon wrote: > <http://gitub.com/reutenauer/polyglossia>. …and of course I copied his typo. That should be <http://github.com/reutenauer/polyglossia>, of course. —Joel -- Subscription

Re: [XeTeX] Alternate Ξ glyphs in GFS Neohellenic

2015-09-06 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: > For some strange reason the glyph you want is not accessible through > OpenType features, as a look into the GSUB table confirms, but is > included as a separate character from the Private Use Area (U+E004); > that's why copy-pasting f