[XeTeX] Letterly template broken

2010-11-10 Thread Kai Hendry
icode} \setmainfont{Charis SIL} \usepackage{babel} \begin{document} \address{ 256 Edgware road\\ W2 1DS } \letter{ Barclays\\ Woking } \signature{Kai Hendry} \opening{George} Hello there \closing{Sincerely,} \end{document} It seems to choke on the first lines: $ xetex letter.tex This is XeTeX, Ve

Re: [XeTeX] Letterly template broken

2010-11-10 Thread Kai Hendry
On 10 November 2010 12:56, Khaled Hosny wrote: > That is a LaTeX file, so you should use `xelatex` instead of `xetex`. Sorry, false alarm. http://svn.natalian.org/projects/letter/generate.php actually does use xelatex. Seems to be a permission problem, which I've yet to figure out. :/ Thanks,

Re: [XeTeX] Letterly template broken

2010-11-10 Thread Kai Hendry
I have two machines running squeeze, but different outputs: hen...@webconverger testing$ xelatex letter.tex This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (TeX Live 2009/Debian) restricted \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./letter.tex LaTeX2e <2009/09/24> Babel and hyphenation patterns f

Re: [XeTeX] Letterly template broken

2010-11-10 Thread Kai Hendry
Does not work: hen...@webconverger testing$ ls -ld . letter.* drwxrwxr-x 2 hendry hendry 4096 Nov 10 14:41 . -rw-rw-r-- 1 hendry hendry8 Nov 10 14:41 letter.aux -rw-rw-r-- 1 hendry hendry 9467 Nov 10 14:41 letter.log -rw-rw-r-- 1 hendry hendry 333 Nov 10 14:21 letter.tex Works: hen...@h2 te

Re: [XeTeX] Letterly template broken

2010-11-11 Thread Kai Hendry
This disk is not full. The permissions are fine. The problem cropped up out of nowhere. I've spent hours debugging it. :( I've since moved the http://letterly.com/ service entirely to a new server in Germany: http://webconverger.org/hetty/ I'm going to move away from XeTeX in any case. I video-b

[XeTeX] Letterly fonts

2013-07-31 Thread Kai Hendry
Hi guys, Recently I've improved security and re-factored http://letterly.com/ which I first announced 5 years ago now: http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2008-January/008377.html Source: https://github.com/kaihendry/letterly I was hoping if I could another review and perhaps some advice when it come

Re: [XeTeX] Letterly fonts

2013-08-01 Thread Kai Hendry
On 31 July 2013 22:11, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: > The DejaVu fonts don't seem to cover Hangul, nor any other East Asian > script, for that matter. See http://dejavu-fonts.org/ that mentions at > the bottom that the only scripts supported by all font styles are Latin, > Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian

Re: [XeTeX] Letterly fonts

2013-08-01 Thread Kai Hendry
On 31 July 2013 22:47, wrote: > you're writing. (See, for instance, slide 11 of this presentation: >http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/temporary/2012-kanji-slides.pdf ) heh > Usually a font will correctly support at most one Han-script language, and > an out-of-band mechanism (in XeLaTeX, it'd be a

Re: [XeTeX] Letterly fonts

2013-08-02 Thread Kai Hendry
On 1 August 2013 22:54, Peter Dyballa wrote: > Specific for the script to be used, provided it has support for the language > in use: http://www.wazu.jp/ So has no one has done the mapping of: $_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"] - Web browser's preconfigured language setting IIUC texlive-* - Debi

Re: [XeTeX] Letterly fonts

2013-08-04 Thread Kai Hendry
On 3 August 2013 07:38, Khaled Hosny wrote: > The ISO language code for Korean is ko. Sorry yes, I wasn't using ISO 693 *language code*s. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2013-August/004847.html I think I've run into some bugs with Debian and fontconfig on my server which hosts

Re: [XeTeX] Letterly fonts

2013-08-04 Thread Kai Hendry
On 5 August 2013 08:56, Wilfred van Rooijen wrote: > What is a "letter template" for the world? Well my dream would be people from India, China or Korea, after visiting http://letterly.com/ can create a letter PDF using Xetex in their own script. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_(message) Tbh

Re: [XeTeX] Letterly fonts

2013-08-05 Thread Kai Hendry
On 5 August 2013 21:29, Wilfred van Rooijen wrote: > Mmmm. An interesting endeavour, but why? There are as many "templates for > formal letters" as there are cultures on the planet. Why try to put them all > into the same pattern? To give you an example, the Netherlands and the > Dutch-speaking