Re: [XeTeX] Problem with Deja Vu Sans fonts

2010-03-08 Thread Khaled Hosny
s. Fontconfig reads /etc/fonts/fonts.conf (the patch depends on your installation) and any other files need to be included from it (recursively). Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] Polyglossia v1.1.1 RC1 available for download

2010-03-16 Thread Khaled Hosny
he files, it looks like OOo hyphenation patterns. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] on fontspec 2.0

2010-03-27 Thread Khaled Hosny
blo Rodríguez said: > >> > >>> some time ago, we were introduced to the fontspec 2.0 > >>> (http://github.com/wspr/fontspec), that will be compatible with LuaLaTeX. > >> > >> Right. The primary development for the LuaLaTeX part of fontspec has been >

Re: [XeTeX] on fontspec 2.0

2010-03-28 Thread Khaled Hosny
free to > send me stuff to run. I didn't write that, Will; are you listening? ;) Anyway, what is written there doesn't reflect the reality; we rely on fontconfig to get a list of system fonts (but, unlike XeTeX, we do the rest of indexing ourseleves). So, it is fontconfig's dut

Re: [XeTeX] on fontspec 2.0

2010-03-28 Thread Khaled Hosny
elves, but this is likely to change later (the issue is more complicated under *nix systems as one needs to parse fontconfig configuration files). Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer --

Re: [XeTeX] Greek hyphenation in xetex

2010-04-25 Thread Khaled Hosny
aps I need to ask that on a MiKTeX list). I don't typeset Greek (nor use polyglossia), but I guess all what you need is to call polyglossia. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -- Subscri

Re: [XeTeX] accented character ṛ within \section {ṛ}

2010-04-26 Thread Khaled Hosny
fonts. Sure it means a bit extra OpenType work, but this can easily be shared between faces. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List informatio

Re: [XeTeX] accented character ṛ within \section {ṛ}

2010-04-26 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 01:16:46PM -0400, Peter Baker wrote: > On 4/26/10 12:44 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > > >That is one reason I personally think combining marks + ccmp are better > >than pre-composed glyphs, the less glyph work the easier to sync fonts. > >Sure it

Re: [XeTeX] experimental new xetex version - with margin-kerning support

2010-05-03 Thread Khaled Hosny
> this feature. Both development versions of ConTeXt and luaotfload package now support optical bounds feature, but I don't know any other application that do nor I found any fonts that implement it (I had to add it myself to Pagella for testing). Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arab

Re: [XeTeX] experimental new xetex version - with margin-kerning support

2010-05-04 Thread Khaled Hosny
once there is support for xetex of course). Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] Dotless I and Emph problem

2010-05-08 Thread Khaled Hosny
ld disable fi ligatures. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures and searching in PDFs

2010-05-10 Thread Khaled Hosny
ource tools is yet to be designed and > implemented. IIRC, there are already latex packages that adds higher level support for ActualText tags (low level support is already in the engines). Also libpoppler based PDF viewers are fine copying

Re: [XeTeX] Long i with overbar and no dot

2010-05-12 Thread Khaled Hosny
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,twoside]{memoir} > > \usepackage{fontspec} \usepackage{xunicode} Or, alternatively, just use the proper unicode character in your input (though, I myself, find TeX notation a bit handy). > \setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Junicode} BTW, \setromanfont is dep

Re: [XeTeX] Problems with fontspec and mathspec

2010-05-12 Thread Khaled Hosny
or*. Could you check whether you were > accidentally using latex instead of xelatex? This is a macro package error, latex still identify itself as latex, no matter what engine you are using. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Ara

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX and Arabic text in Footnotes

2010-05-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
t; >Philipp > > > > > > > >-- > >Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > > > -- > S

Re: [XeTeX] unicode-math testing

2010-05-27 Thread Khaled Hosny
from another font. Checking the output of 'fc-list : file' my reveal that you, or whoever is experiencing this, have several version of the font accessible to xetex, if so, then removing all but one can solve the issue. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] unicode-math testing

2010-05-27 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 05:51:27PM +0100, Michael Lynch wrote: > On 27/05/2010 17:20, Khaled Hosny wrote: > >Looks like xetex is getting glyph indexes from one font file but loading > >the actual glyph from another font. Checking the output of 'fc-list : > >file' my

Re: [XeTeX] unicode-math testing

2010-05-28 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 04:54:56AM +0800, Diederick C. Niehorster wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > Looks like xetex is getting glyph indexes from one font file but loading > > the actual glyph from another font. Checking the output of 'fc

Re: [XeTeX] (bug?) letterspacing with LetterSpace and soul

2010-05-30 Thread Khaled Hosny
works---see attached files. Am I messing something obvoious here? Don't etex (and conseqently) xetex format has a \uselanguage macro? -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -- Subscriptions, Arc

Re: [XeTeX] (Off-topic) STIX Fonts

2010-05-30 Thread Khaled Hosny
s helpful. This seems to do what I want, > though presumably it's less complete than STIX with some of the > glyphs not fully up to date/missing. I'm in the process of re-basing xits on stix 1.0.0 release, under STIXv1.0.0 branch. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic lo

Re: [XeTeX] (bug?) letterspacing with LetterSpace and soul

2010-05-30 Thread Khaled Hosny
27;. Just use \uselanguage{monogreek}, it is part of the format, and it'll load UTF-8 hyphenation patterns, which I think have been part of texlive for several years now, thanks to hyph-utf8 project. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Ho

Re: [XeTeX] (bug?) letterspacing with LetterSpace and soul

2010-05-30 Thread Khaled Hosny
be the same for plain tex, at least in texlive. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] unicode-math testing

2010-05-30 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:13:09AM +0300, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 04:54:56AM +0800, Diederick C. Niehorster wrote: > > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Khaled Hosny > > wrote: > > > Looks like xetex is getting glyph indexes from one font file but

[XeTeX] XITS Math font - first beata

2010-06-04 Thread Khaled Hosny
ge of math aesthetics and sharp eyes to spot error better than what I can ever do. Others are highly welcomed to test against other OpenType MATH implementations, namely unicode-math (with both XeTeX and LuaTeX) and MS Office 2007 and higher. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localise

Re: [XeTeX] XITS Math font - first beata

2010-06-05 Thread Khaled Hosny
een designed for maths use, not text. And while they > *can* function acceptably in text, TeX Gyre Termes is specifically a > text font and has excellent glyph coverage. I'm actually planning to include the rest of STIX styles in some later release, STIX surpasses Termes in its Greek and

Re: [XeTeX] XITS Math font - first beata

2010-06-05 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 03:29:31PM -0300, George N. White III wrote: > On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Will Robertson wrote: > > > On 2010-06-06 01:28:46 +0930, Eelis van der Weegen said: > > > >> On 2010-06-04 20:31, Khaled Hosny wrote: > >>> > &

Re: [XeTeX] XITS Math font - first beata

2010-06-05 Thread Khaled Hosny
, map MATH to TeX properties and write back a set of subset Type1 fonts and corresponding PL files, but I don't feel like investing time in learning obsolete technologies (Type1, TFM, PL, LaTeX math etc.), so, apart from the potential large number of people who woul

Re: [XeTeX] XITS Math font - first beata

2010-06-05 Thread Khaled Hosny
uggested that Will just temporarily > add to 'fontspec' an option that > > \setmainfont{XITS Math} > > means: load XITS Math for upright Roman, and STIXGeneral for everything else. You can already do that, check the manual for selecting arbitrary italic and bold fon

Re: [XeTeX] XITS Math font - first beata

2010-06-05 Thread Khaled Hosny
ontspec' an option that > >> > >> \setmainfont{XITS Math} > >> > >> means: load XITS Math for upright Roman, and STIXGeneral for everything > >> else. > > > > You can already do that, check the manual for selecting arbitrary italic > >

Re: [XeTeX] XITS Math font - first beata

2010-06-05 Thread Khaled Hosny
d > >> >> involve. > >> >> Then XITS would become a complete font. > >> >> > >> >> In my original post in this thread I suggested that Will just > >> >> temporarily > >> >> add to 'fontspec' an option that > >&g

Re: [XeTeX] XITS Math font - first beata

2010-06-06 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 01:11:41PM -0300, George N. White III wrote: > On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > > You can now grap the four styles from git tree: > > http://github.com/khaledhosny/xits-math > > > > No proper release yet, but if no ser

[XeTeX] XITS fonts - second beta

2010-06-06 Thread Khaled Hosny
;onum' feature * text fractions, through 'frac' feature As usual, it is available from github: http://github.com/khaledhosny/xits-math/downloads Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team

Re: [XeTeX] [unimath] Unicode-math strange results

2010-06-06 Thread Khaled Hosny
is usually means the value of RadicalRuleThikness is ignored and the engine is falling back to the old TeX method (the hight of radical glyph). -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -- Subscription

Re: [XeTeX] [unimath] Unicode-math strange results

2010-06-06 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 12:01:03AM +0300, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 10:55:13PM +0200, Ulrik Vieth wrote: > > > > 2. Radicals: > > With xelatex, I only get a radical sign without a bar. > > With lualatex, I get a misplaced radical sign with a very

Re: [XeTeX] [unimath] Unicode-math strange results

2010-06-06 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 11:19:41PM +0200, Ulrik Vieth wrote: > On 06/06/2010 11:05 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > >>This usually means the value of RadicalRuleThikness is ignored and the > >>engine is falling back to the old TeX method (the hight of radical > >>glyph).

Re: [XeTeX] Absence of ligatures

2010-06-09 Thread Khaled Hosny
I am using? > > > > Hi Jose: > > Try setting the main font in the preamble with the option > [Mapping=tex=text]: > > > \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{DTLUnicoST} tex-text mapping has nothing to do with f ligatures. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member

Re: [XeTeX] Absence of ligatures

2010-06-09 Thread Khaled Hosny
et. Am I doing something > wrong? Or could it be a flaw within the fonts that I am using? Either the font lacks proper OpenType layout code, or you need to explicitly select certain OpenType script/language, you can try setting Language=Latin, Language=Default, Script=Latin or any combination of

Re: [XeTeX] Absence of ligatures

2010-06-09 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 07:28:42PM +0200, Pander wrote: > Khaled Hosny wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 04:45:27PM +0100, José Carlos Santos wrote: > >>Hi all: > >> > >>I have been working on a text whose main font is DTL Unico: > >> > >>http

Re: [XeTeX] Absence of ligatures

2010-06-09 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 07:13:28PM +0100, José Carlos Santos wrote: > On 09-06-2010 18:23, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > >>I have been working on a text whose main font is DTL Unico: > >> > >>http://www.dutchtypelibrary.nl/Unico_rdrct.html > >> > >>I

Re: [XeTeX] Absence of ligatures

2010-06-09 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 07:36:40PM +0100, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > > > Khaled Hosny wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 07:13:28PM +0100, José Carlos Santos wrote: > >>On 09-06-2010 18:23, Khaled Hosny wrote: > >> > >>>>I hav

Re: [XeTeX] Absence of ligatures

2010-06-09 Thread Khaled Hosny
ll me how should I set, say, > >>>Language=Latin? > >> > >>The same way you set Liagtures=Common. > > > >Thanks. I tried every combination that I could think of and worked. > > Oops! I meant to write "and it did not work" here. If you ha

Re: [XeTeX] Absence of ligatures

2010-06-10 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:31:20AM +0100, José Carlos Santos wrote: > On 09-06-2010 21:09, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > >>>>>>>I have been working on a text whose main font is DTL Unico: > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>http://www.dutcht

Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures and searching in PDFs

2010-06-10 Thread Khaled Hosny
ve the sequence ffi etc. but I don't recall the exact details offhand. This seems to be implemented for Latin script only, and as far as my experience goes, there is no PDF generator or reader that generates/retrieves full Arabic text into/from PDFs. It might be possible to coe

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX Digest, Vol 75, Issue 34

2010-06-14 Thread Khaled Hosny
esponse. Actually to > nothing. This is really ugly. Not even trying to adjust the subject. HTML version of the message is broken, the plain text version is just fine, depends on each one your mail client picks. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabe

Re: [XeTeX] Problem with unicode-math and acronym packages

2010-06-15 Thread Khaled Hosny
he problem's coming from? Unicode-math defines a math symbol \ac, from unicode-math-table.tex: \UnicodeMathSymbol{"0223E}{\ac}{\mathbin}{most positive [inverted lazy s]} Something like \let\acronym\ac before loading unicode-math, and then using \acronym would solve the problem for now.

Re: [XeTeX] Problem with unicode-math and acronym packages

2010-06-15 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 02:38:51AM +0300, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:23:33AM +0100, Michael Lynch wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I've come across a conflict between the unicode-math and acronym packages. > > > > If I run xelatex on

Re: [XeTeX] More info on segfaults in unicode-math on linux 64 bit

2010-06-17 Thread Khaled Hosny
a MATH table containing the positioning > information. > Maybe the segmentation fault was caused when XeTeX was trying to extract > the information from the MATH table and didn't find any such table. I tested here, texlive-2009 with locally updated packages on a 32 bit linux, but I g

Re: [XeTeX] ellipsis glyph missing from font

2010-06-19 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 04:59:54PM +0300, Avi Wollman wrote: > Is there a way using \newfontfamily to define "..." on a font which is missing > ellipsis "..." glyph ? You can try somethig simple like: \def\dots{.\kern-.1em.\kern-.1em.} Hello\dots -- Khaled Hosny A

Re: [XeTeX] xelatex crashes with a large document (TL2010)

2010-06-24 Thread Khaled Hosny
#6 0x08092165 in ?? () > #7 0x0805afb1 in ?? () > #8 0x08093ec0 in ?? () > #9 0x00307cc6 in __libc_start_main (main=0x8093ea0, argc=3, > ubp_av=0xb304, init=0x82790d0, fini=0x8279130, > rtld_fini=0x2de220 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xb2fc) at > libc-start.c:226 > #

Re: [XeTeX] Hyphenating Tamil

2010-06-26 Thread Khaled Hosny
ome one who have been using Ubuntu and texlive for several years now, I can safely say you are exaggerating too much here. One can easily install texlive from tug on Ubuntu like any other Unix(-like) system, nothing special here. Please refer to texlive documentation for installation instructi

Re: [XeTeX] xetex arabic fonts issue

2010-06-26 Thread Khaled Hosny
that you have an old version of the font installed somewhere. Having to different version of the same font installed is known to cause this kind of issues with xetex, deleting the old version(s) is enough to solve this issue. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Ara

Re: [XeTeX] Hyphenating Tamil

2010-06-26 Thread Khaled Hosny
though I rarely use that), texlive 2009/2010 from tug and ConTeXt minimals. It is a matter of setting PATH properly to activate the distribution I want to use. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

Re: [XeTeX] xetex arabic fonts issue

2010-06-26 Thread Khaled Hosny
al copies should not cause any problems, since both will have the same glyph IDs. I should have said a different instead of old copy, though. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

Re: [XeTeX] xetex arabic fonts issue

2010-06-26 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 07:58:13PM -0700, Jonathan Kew wrote: > On 26 Jun 2010, at 16:46, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 03:04:05PM -0700, wodzi...@math.berkeley.edu wrote: > >> > >>> My guess is that you have an old version of the font ins

Re: [XeTeX] xetex arabic fonts issue

2010-06-27 Thread Khaled Hosny
t;  \font\test="Scheherazade" >   \test .. You have to select Arabic script, as mentioned before in this thread: \font\test="Scheherazade:script=arab" -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -

Re: [XeTeX] Rupali font issue

2010-07-04 Thread Khaled Hosny
bizarre Latin characters you see. TTF fonts have a setting that control whether the font is allowed to be embedded in the PDF or not, and this font seems to be set not to be embedded. You either have to contact the foundry about this or use another font (You can also edit the font yourself and r

Re: [XeTeX] Position of kasra when used together with tashdid in Arabic

2010-07-08 Thread Khaled Hosny
of kasra relative to shadda is up to the font designer. For example I prefer the more traditional behaviour in my fonts, while fonts like Scheherazade make sure that both and render kasra bellow shadda, so reordering will not work here. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and me

Re: [XeTeX] Position of kasra when used together with tashdid in Arabic

2010-07-08 Thread Khaled Hosny
t; Thanks. I don't know any XeTeX solutions, nor enough TeX to do clever TeX wizardry like Vfa, but if there is interest in LuaTeX based solution, I think something can be done with font feature file, but I don't want to look like "hijacking" XeTeX threads. -- Khaled

Re: [XeTeX] Position of kasra when used together with tashdid in Arabic

2010-07-10 Thread Khaled Hosny
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Re: [XeTeX] Position of kasra when used together with tashdid in Arabic

2010-07-10 Thread Khaled Hosny
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Re: [XeTeX] combining characters in isolation

2010-07-11 Thread Khaled Hosny
everything else fails. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] Eadui font (and contextual alternates)

2010-07-11 Thread Khaled Hosny
summer to all, > >Peter Baker > > > > > > > >-- > >Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > > > > > > > >

Re: [XeTeX] [OT] Free fonts for fontspec examples?

2010-07-12 Thread Khaled Hosny
ompile the manual without trouble. > > I've got a few areas I'm stuck on, since my font repertoire isn't very large. > > 1. Does anyone know of any free fonts that have optical size variants? Latin Modern. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser

Re: [XeTeX] [OT] Free fonts for fontspec examples?

2010-07-12 Thread Khaled Hosny
eature but this name wasn't very obvious. In more recent versions > of fontspec you can use "StylisticSet=0/1/2...". I think "Variant" is a more appropriate name for stylistic alternates "salt" not stylistic sets. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTex and Armenian

2010-07-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
էր աներևոյթ և անպատրաստ. և խաւար ի վերայ անդնդոց. և Հոգի > Աստուծոյ շրջէր ի վերայ ջուրց: > > \end{document} But then Latin ligatures, kerning or other OpenType feature will not be activated, you still have to set different script (and may be language) for each script, so usin

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTex and Armenian

2010-07-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
ting different font/features for different runs of text. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTex and Armenian

2010-07-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
c[Script=Latin] {Linux Libertine O} fi fl ffi ffl AVAW}\par \end{document} Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTex and Armenian

2010-07-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
help of someone competent in that > language, but at least the attached file should provide initial > basic support. If someone is able to translate the caption strings, > that would be nice! I don't speak Armenian myself, but keeping the English caption in the file will allow othe

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTex and Armenian

2010-07-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
fined for both scripts, then there is no reason > to > use different fonts. Good luck finding such font :) -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] Overline in xetex using polyglossia

2010-07-14 Thread Khaled Hosny
t dissapears. > > Is there a way to implement the \eamph command for overlining arabic > texts just like arabxetex? You can try this: \def\aemph#1{$\overline{\hbox{#1}}$} Basically, you have to set the text inside an hbox so that it is not treated as maths text. Regards, Khaled --

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTex and Armenian

2010-07-14 Thread Khaled Hosny
ript. Actually, I doubt there are many fonts doing like Linux Libertine here as regard to Greek. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List informat

Re: [XeTeX] Fontspec V3+ (was : fontspec manual 10.17 (scripts/languages))

2010-07-26 Thread Khaled Hosny
gree that this is desirable, > I wonder whether I might be permitted to raise it as a requested > feature for a future major release of Fontspec ? AAT fonts has no notion of scripts and languages, feature tags etc. It is a completely different world, IMO it is not possible to have a "uni

Re: [XeTeX] Listings and copy/paste

2010-07-26 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 07:39:46PM +0200, Le Farfadet Spatial wrote: > \setmonofont[Mapping=tex-text]{DejaVu Sans Mono} Don't use Mapping=tex-text in your mono font, it does specifically what you are trying to avoid. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and m

Re: [XeTeX] Fake old-style figures & small-caps with XeTeX?

2010-07-26 Thread Khaled Hosny
int in having a version of > URW Palladio without small-caps and another one with, all in the > same LaTeX installation. Traditional TeX engines can only use small caps if they are in a separate font. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] \botmark and \firstmark not working for me ...

2010-08-01 Thread Khaled Hosny
early stage. > > Let's not advertise LuaTeX on the XeTeX list! It is not like they are enemies or even commercial competitors, it is all TeX and, if one's need can be achieved by this or that engine, then be it. Not everything can be done with traditional TeX te

Re: [XeTeX] \botmark and \firstmark not working for me ...

2010-08-01 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 12:54:43PM +0300, Ron Aaron wrote: > On Sunday 01 August 2010 12:41:35 Khaled Hosny wrote: > > > It is not like they are enemies or even commercial competitors, it is > > all TeX and, if one's need can be achieved by this or that engine, then > &

Re: [XeTeX] fontspec: loading different shapes/scales of one font as different font instances?

2010-08-01 Thread Khaled Hosny
ng > them will actually be necessary anyway... If you want a specific style, then use \newfontface not \newfontfamily. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] bug in xltxtra?

2010-08-03 Thread Khaled Hosny
ation of \emph to work with OpenType fonts. In fontspec 2, this code have been moved from xltxtra to fontspec itself. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -- Subscriptions, Archive, and Lis

Re: [XeTeX] bug in xltxtra?

2010-08-04 Thread Khaled Hosny
> \begin{document} > {\slshape blub \emph{bla}} %slshape + itshape > > {\itshape blubb \emph{blabla}} %itshape + upshape > > \end{document} Since Will is busy with his thesis ;), I tried to fix this issue. The attached fontspec-patches.sty seems to fix the issue for me (fon

Re: [XeTeX] bug in xltxtra?

2010-08-04 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 10:51:46AM -0500, Herbert Schulz wrote: > > On Aug 4, 2010, at 10:41 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 05:01:01PM +0200, Ulrike Fischer wrote: > >> Am Tue, 3 Aug 2010 09:56:45 +0200 schrieb Yves Codet: > >> > >&

Re: [XeTeX] bug in xltxtra?

2010-08-04 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 11:59:41AM -0500, Herbert Schulz wrote: > > On Aug 4, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 10:51:46AM -0500, Herbert Schulz wrote: > >> > >> On Aug 4, 2010, at 10:41 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > >>

Re: [XeTeX] [lltx] fontspec and xunicode

2010-08-05 Thread Khaled Hosny
uation > in another way if that would be better. Based on the previous discussion here, I think there is a general agreement that a simple wrapper around xunicode is better than forking it. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font dev

Re: [XeTeX] [lltx] fontspec and xunicode

2010-08-05 Thread Khaled Hosny
s, I still can not generate the AAT examples). I think, adding the PDFs of the examples to the repository would help anyone to build the documentation without the fonts. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Ara

Re: [XeTeX] [lltx] fontspec and xunicode

2010-08-05 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 05:06:04PM +0930, Will Robertson wrote: > On 05/08/2010, at 4:58 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > > Based on the previous discussion here, I think there is a general > > agreement that a simple wrapper around xunicode is better than forking > > it

Re: [XeTeX] [lltx] fontspec and xunicode

2010-08-05 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 05:14:43PM +0930, Will Robertson wrote: > On 05/08/2010, at 5:05 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > > Well, I can not actually upload fontspec to CTAN since I am unable to > > build the documentation :) (even if I got all the non-free fonts, I > > still

Re: [XeTeX] [lltx] fontspec and xunicode

2010-08-05 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 11:03:17AM +0300, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 05:14:43PM +0930, Will Robertson wrote: > > On 05/08/2010, at 5:05 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > > > > Well, I can not actually upload fontspec to CTAN since I am unable to > > >

Re: [XeTeX] [lltx] fontspec and xunicode

2010-08-05 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 06:35:15PM +0930, Will Robertson wrote: > On 05/08/2010, at 6:07 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > > And even with the "/doc" from ctan, I still can't build the package > > because `make doc` insists on generating the test files which fails &g

Re: [XeTeX] Combined sub- and superscript

2010-08-07 Thread Khaled Hosny
'', !`, ?`, >>, <<, and ,,. Nothing more, nothing less. For this very reason, I advice every one to use and advocate the new fontspec option, "Ligatures=TeX", which I hope will decrease the amount of confusion (I still think it is mysterious). Reg

Re: [XeTeX] Combined sub- and superscript - solved

2010-08-08 Thread Khaled Hosny
s optical sizes, those glyphs are scaled and raised/lowered to give the desired size and position, and thus can't be used with normal TeX super/subscript mechanisms. May be Will Robertson can extend his new realscripts package to handle such situations as we

Re: [XeTeX] Checking for existence of font feature

2010-08-11 Thread Khaled Hosny
vailable. Looking at the package, it seems that > \fontspec_check_ot_feat is responsible, but this package is about as > complicated as any I've looked at and I'm not quite sure how it > should be used. > > Will, or someone el

Re: [XeTeX] Checking for existence of font feature

2010-08-11 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 04:53:16AM +0100, Michael Lynch wrote: > On 11/08/2010 22:54, Khaled Hosny wrote: > >On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 09:39:07PM +0100, Michael Lynch wrote: > >>On 11/08/2010 20:54, Michael Lynch wrote: > >>>Hello all, > >>> > >>&

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

2010-08-17 Thread Khaled Hosny
kely XeTeX does not check this parameter at all and resorts to some hard coded default rule thickness. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List infor

Re: [XeTeX] xe(la)tex to epub?

2010-08-17 Thread Khaled Hosny
ing that operates on > xdv/dvi would be far superior. AFAIK, epup is just a subset of xhtml with a subset of css2, so IMO not a kind of output format that is very well suited for TeX (well, I hardly consider html an output format at all, the output is what the browser renders out of it). Reg

Re: [XeTeX] Good Text Font + Math Font Combination

2010-08-17 Thread Khaled Hosny
ular text and XITS Math for math, all on CTAN (and TeXLive 2010). Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

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

2010-08-17 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:54:00PM +0200, Ulrik Vieth wrote: > On 08/17/2010 04:32 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > > >Likely XeTeX does not check this parameter at all and resorts to some > >hard coded default rule thickness. > > No, that cannot be the reason. I know fo

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

2010-08-17 Thread Khaled Hosny
g and unicode-math is simply using the CM constructs for those. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] xe(la)tex to epub?

2010-08-17 Thread Khaled Hosny
cript, I think this is a good compromise. See [1] for example (some interesting links near the end, too). [1] http://typophile.com/node/71247 Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] xe(la)tex to epub?

2010-08-17 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 08:11:06AM +1000, Ross Moore wrote: > Hi Khaled and Michiel, > > On 18/08/2010, at 6:58 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 01:16:02PM -0700, Michiel Kamermans wrote: > >> Khaled, > >> > >>> AFAIK, epup

Re: [XeTeX] xe(la)tex to epub?

2010-08-17 Thread Khaled Hosny
> Of course someone needs to write those translators, and make > them sufficiently flexible as well as being robust. > But that's what computer scientists and programmers are > paid for, surely. :-) Good luck parsing TeX macros :) (there are certainly reasons why there is no

Re: [XeTeX] fontspec and a single font for multiple scripts

2010-08-18 Thread Khaled Hosny
ote: With the latest fontspec version (2.0c) the arabic > script is used in the above example. When using fontspec 1.18 from > texlive 2009 bengali is used. It is likely related on how options are parsed. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team F

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