2010/4/16 Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) :
> No, sorry : larger machines, mini rather micro,
> although physically they weren't "mini" at all !
Going through Wikipedia
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Computer_companies_of_the_United_Kingdom),
my guesses are
- ICL (http://en.wikipedia.org/
2010/4/17 Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) :
> No, sorry Martin : probably not as famous as either
> of them, but fairly popular with Universities and
> such like ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Technology_Limited
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2010/4/21 Sam Putman :
> This document had some interesting contributions to this discussion:
>
> http://www.unifont.org/textlayout/TheBigPicture.pdf
>
> In short, there are other people interested in solving this problem to
> provide proper internationalization in the major FLOSS applications.
Th
2010/5/2 Jonathan Kew :
> I'm afraid I don't know anything about this; I believe Thanh has been
> building (from the microtype branch in the xetex repository) on Linux, but I
> haven't tried this myself yet.
I can confirm that TRUNK builds on 10.3/amd64.
But I also have a working TeX installatio
2010/5/3 Barry MacKichan :
> Now that that has sunk in ;-) can I ask about the other feature of
> PDFTeX, namely the ability to improve line breaking by (to my eye)
> undetectable changes in the font size for a paragraph? Is there any plan
> to port this to XeTeX?
IMHO that will be much harder, si
2010/5/8 Pablo Rodríguez :
> due to the version of geometry included in TeXLive 2009, the following code
> crashes xetex when compiling it with Ubuntu 10.04:
It crashes? Or just barfs and doesn't do what you want?
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2010/6/4 Kirk Lowery :
> future of XeTeX? Will XeTeX continue to be developed? Should we be
I have faith that there will be XeTeX 1.0 eventually. :-)
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2010/6/5 Pablo Rodríguez :
> pdfopt cannot linearize some PDF files
> (http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690462#c2).
qpdf can.
And ps2pdf can downsample pdfs.
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2010/7/12 Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard :
> so I think his answer is that it is *not* doable to ship 32 bit XeTeX on
> LinUX64, since the user would need a 32-bit version of the dynamically linked
> libraries.
Which is the norm on OpenSUSE. :-)
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2010/7/21 Chris Yocum :
> get the information out of the crop package and into the PDF proper
> using \special{pdf: /TrimBox [...]} but I have rather failed so far and
> had other things take over my time.
With pdfTeX it would be \pdfcatalog{/TrimBox [1 2 3 4]}.
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2010/7/21 Chris Yocum :
>> With pdfTeX it would be \pdfcatalog{/TrimBox [1 2 3 4]}.
>
> Cool. Thanks Martin. I actually screwed up the above a bit. It should
> be \special{pdf: put @pages /TrimBox[1 2 3 4]}.
>
> I believe (off the top of my head a the moment) if you look at the code
> for the pd
2010/8/30 Heiko Oberdiek :
> What kind of philosophy? An error as part of normal behaviour? ;-)
If you want to know if XeTeX knows a font you should ask XeTeX and not
fontcache. If that's hard, XeTeX should be improved.
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2010/8/28 Herbert Schulz :
> Hmmm... I wonder how many font licenses this requirement violates?
Font licenses don't work.
Customer of us tried to get from a major font vendor a server license
for a font (i.e. license for a server that generates pdf from xml).
Obviously there's only one machine in
2010/9/9 Heiko Oberdiek :
> s/pdfpageattr(s)/pdfpage(s)attr/
Avoid \pdfpagesattr. The PDF specification now recommends setting the
keys on every page.
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2010/9/23 Mojca Miklavec :
> - Is the 28 MB file on linux normal (= something that may reasonably
> be expected)? The last time when I tried to build XeTeX on Mac in
Try to strip it.
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2010/9/26 Axel Kielhorn :
> Contributions are welcome, but please note that lshort is written in latin1
> and it will be difficult to show anything outside the latin range.
Then it should be converted into utf8 first. This is 2010, not 1995. :-)
Maybe it would be easier to write an xlshort, whic
2010/9/26 Philipp Stephani :
> Am 26.09.2010 um 15:56 schrieb Axel Kielhorn:
>
>> Is the compose feature you mention the same as dead keys?
>
> No. Compose is a key available only from the X Window System. After hitting
> Compose (it is not a modifier key), you can enter a known key
KDE and Gnome
Hi,
build-xetex.sh in trunk breaks on OpenSUSE 11.2 on amd64:
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/home/ms/tex/xetex/TRUNK/texk/web2c -I./..
-I/home/ms/tex/xetex/TRUNK/build-xetex/texk
-I/home/ms/tex/xetex/TRUNK/texk -DNO_DEBUG
-I/home/ms/tex/xetex/TRUNK/texk/web2c/..
-I/home/ms/tex/xetex/TRUNK/texk/web2c/x
2010/10/3 Paul Isambert :
> "Persian" is an English pronunciation, "Farsi" an Arabic one. Both derive
> from the same word. I can't see why one is fake and not the other. Like
> saying the real name of French is Französich, for some reason having to do
> with German phonetics...
I trust Wikipedia:
2010/10/12 Alexandros Gotsis :
> 1. I could replace almost all commands of (Xe)LaTeX, but I can do nothing
> with the very first one: \documentclass{}! Is there a way to change the name
> of this command so that the XeLaTeX engine still understands it? I am looking
> for solutions that will not
2010/10/12 Apostolos Syropoulos :
>> Well, of course that would be a χελατεχ format then ... :)
>
> It should be ζιλατεχ or even ξιλατεχ...
But that seems to be monotonic. Shouldn't it be polytonic? :-)
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2010/11/6 Juan Acevedo :
> Should I worry about sending this to press? Is there anything wrong in the
> font setup?
No. No.
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Hi,
when I set up TeX Gyre Heros on Windows thusly:
-
\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX]{TeX Gyre Heros}
\setsansfont[Ligatures=TeX]{TeX Gyre Heros}
-
I get the warning
-
Requested font "TeX Gyre Heros/ICU:script=latn;language=DFLT;mapping=tex-text;;
" at 1
2010/12/22 Ross Moore :
> ;;
> causes an empty feature request.
So it's an error in fontspec?
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2010/12/22 Ross Moore :
> Writing a message to warn the user of their sloppiness is quite
> a reasonable action, in my opinion. This is done a lot in TeX
What's wrong with my input?
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Here's my minimal input:
\listfiles
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[ngerman,english]{babel}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX]{TeX Gyre Heros}
\setsansfont[Ligatures=TeX]{TeX Gyre Heros}
\begin{document}
A
\end{document}
*File List*
article.cls2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard La
2011/1/14 Jérôme Etévé :
> Alternatively, is there a quick way to test a pdf file for correctness
> before I include it in my latex document?
Preflight them with Acrobat et.al.
You can try qpdf, but that won't catch everything.
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2011/1/17 Jérôme Etévé :
> @Martin: Tried qpdf, but it suffers from an infinite loop on invalid
> xref tables :( Acrobat et.al is not an option for me at the moment.
Please contact the author of qpdf; it should not go into an infinite loop.
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2011/2/8 Gareth Hughes :
> and that is clear from the documentation. However, I realised it would
> help me to bring the monster out into the open and seek advice on its
> development. I am not technically minded, and have developed this
I'll probably won't use it, but it sounds great.
Please cons
2011/2/19 Mike Maxwell :
> In a grammar we're writing, the gloss of a word "xowunʣāy" gets hyphenated
> immediately after the 'x'. I thought I could prevent this by adding the
You could also set \lefthyphenmin to a value greater than 1 for the language...
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2011/2/19 :
> it goes. The problem is that XeTeX also adds stretchability and
> shrinkability to the word space, which is an inappropriate thing to do
> when the font is monospace, and there doesn't seem to be a way to remove
> the stretchability and shrinkability in a way that will survive the L
2011/2/19 Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) :>
> Martin Schröder wrote:
>> Methinks the ragged2e package offers a solution.
>
> And if one wants full justification as well as monospaced spaces
> with a monospaced font ?
untested:
\usepackage{ragged2e}
...
\justifying
fo
2011/3/3 Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) :
> No, but as you have yourself suggested two possible causes,
Please stop jumping to conclusions and switching to other mailing lists.
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2011/3/3 Jonathan Kew :
> How about saving each such graphic in a \box, and then just using \copy to
> place it wherever needed? I'd expect that to give a pretty big win, if the
> same graphics are used many times.
And I expect \includegraphics to reuse every graphic automagically.
Can we wait
2011/4/24 Ron Aaron :
> If I create a simple PDF using xetex, I can post-process it using
> "pdftk" to create a "restricted" PDF which doesn't allow copy and paste,
> for example.
You'll probably have more luck with qpdf. :-)
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Hi,
is there a way to switch a font to outline rendering with OTF/fontspec?
I know I can hack this in PDF, but a fontspec feature would be nicer. :-)
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2011/5/11 Heiko Oberdiek :
> Without fontspec, see package `pdfrender'.
\pdfrender{TextRenderingMode=Stroke,LineWidth=1pt}
:-)))
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2011/6/6 Vadim Radionov :
> Is it possible to include tif images with xelatex and graphics.sty ? I
No. Convert to png, jpeg or pdf.
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2011/6/19 Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) :
> What is a "kill file" ? Another platform-specific feature, I suppose !
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=kill+file&l=1
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2011/6/20 Tobias Schoel :
> Understood. Haven't thought about watches. Are months written with roman
> numerals? Never seen that. (But I also don't understand, why the standard
> /MM/DD resp. -MM-DD isn't.)
The standard is MMDD or -MM-DD
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iso8601#Genera
2011/6/22 :
> On Wed, 22 Jun 2011, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
>> 2) A program can open any/retrieve any file on a server
>> using http. all it needs to do is speak http!
>
> While we're at it, let's add a spelling checker, SQL database backend, and
> multilingual thesaurus to TeX. A
2011/9/1 Keith J. Schultz :
> Are you sure you know what you are talking- er- writing about!!
Yes.
Please stop waisting all those "!".
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2011/9/12 Barry MacKichan :
> Ok, I'll contribute to this one. I learned programming on a IBM clone --a
> clone of an IBM 1620 at Oregon State University in 1960.
> We wrote a few programs and then were told about a fabulous new tool called
> SOAP, the symbolic optimum assembly program. No more m
2011/9/21 Herbert Schulz :
> Oh my… this has come up today so many times on so many lists it's maddening.
:-)
See also https://github.com/fc7/polyglossia/issues/27
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2011/9/29 Jonathan Kew :
> Clearly Knuth didn't think there was any need for such large numbers
> of pages in a single file.
See TeX error #913:
* 28 December 1990
R913. Avoid range check when there are 65536 or more pages (Eberhard Mattes).
> It's possible (though I haven't tried) that pdftex in
2011/10/2 Alan Munn :
> Well I don't think Philipp has commit privileges, and CTAN isn't happy about
> random (even highly trusted) people uploading new versions of packages that
> are still officially maintained.
Which seems to boil down to the original problem:
polyglossia seems to need a new
2011/10/21 Chris Travers :
> If TexLive had been around in 2002 and was statically linking to zlib,
> it would have been affected too.
It was and it was and it was. :-(
So it was till we dropped libtiff from pdfTeX and till we dropped xpdf
from XeTeX and LuaTeX (pdfTeX still uses it).
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2011/11/5 Karljurgen Feuerherm :
> Typesets fine... But the output PDF is still letter size--slightly annoying
> in terms of visual impressions. Is there a way to get tell the system to
> adjust the PDF output size to match? Either within the TeX source or as an
> option at typeset time (in this
2011/11/5 Karljurgen Feuerherm :
> I was using that, switched to Memoir. Surely there must be another way?
geometry doesn't work with Memoir?
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2011/11/23 Vafa Khalighi :
> Since XeTeX allows you to have 256 math families instead 16, I was wondering
> if this could be done in xelatex.ini. The required changes are:
IMHO this should be done by LaTeX proper, not as a "local" modification.
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2011/12/21 Philip TAYLOR :
> The following code fragment, from plain XeTeX source,
> results in an "undefined control sequence : \XeTeX"
> message. Where is \XeTeX canonically defined, please ?
Nowhere.
Even tugboat doesn't do it in plain:
% the Xe\TeX logo requires Eplain, which is not assumed
2012/2/20 Stephan :
> For example, this code (http://pastebin.com/U7B4mjic) works well under
> pdfLatex (one column
> turns out blue, the other red), while in XeLaTeX, the colors are mixed
AFAIK pdfparcolumns works only with pdfTeX.
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2012/3/16 Zdenek Wagner :
> Remember that transparency is explicitely prohibited in PDF/X and
> PDF/A. I do not know the first version of PDF supporting transparency
PDF/X-4(++) and PDF/A-2 allow it; it was introduced with PDF 1.4 in 2001(!).
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2012/5/3 Apostolos Syropoulos :
> Then use them, but please do not ask for updates! People should not
> waste their precious time with outdated tools and packages.
Babel is the LaTeX standard for multilingual texts. Until something
else takes it's place, it must be maintained.
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2012/5/4 Apostolos Syropoulos :
> No! The problem is that people should start saying that certain parts
> of the old TeX world are irrelevant and so they should not be part
> of any TeX distribution. For example, on a set of recently compiled
You don't understand the idea of TeX/LaTeX: A stable sy
2012/5/17 C Y :
> From: Joseph Wright
>
>> Oh yes, license and library issues: I forgot :-)
>
> Does KerTeX have license issues? (XeTeX being MIT instead of GPL was one of
> the things that drew me to it, actually...)
XeTeX is not MIT but GPL. It uses a GPL library (poppler), so...
http://sourc
2012/6/26 Khaled Hosny :
> XeTeX is still using the old (and more fragile) Graphite engine,
> LibreOffice switched to the new (and more robust) one AKA graphite2. So
> the segmentation fault is likely from the Graphite engine, so you may
> try reporting it to SIL people (but sadly, that won't help
2012/7/8 Gareth Hughes :
> I just updated to TeX Live 2012 on Ubuntu, but XeLaTeX now fails with
> the message "xelatex.fmt doesn't match xetex.pool". I'm sure there's an
> easy way of fixing this. Ang suggestions?
fmtutil --refresh --byengine xetex
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2012/7/9 Ulrike Fischer :
> I just saw that TexLive 2012 contains some instructions to
> "upgrade". And while it is obviously not recommended to do it the
> text contains a lot informations about possible sources of
> "interference" problems:
"This procedure is not bullet-proof, or especially reco
2012/7/30 Philip TAYLOR :
> 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.
You are right.
Do a 'texdo
2012/7/30 Philip TAYLOR :
> case. But differences at the syntactic level are a far greater
> concern : I think one should accept that if one passes an extant
> XeTeX source through LuaTeX, line and page breaks may well differ,
> but if LuaTeX barfs on valid XeTeX source, that is (for me, at
> leas
2012/7/31 Ross Moore :
> Isn't there some documentation about that?
Yes. The manuals have already been pointed out to him. :-)
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> For very good reason! "\pdfminorversion" is not only some monadic number,
> it's also a guarantee that this document conforms to a particular standard.
Not really. In pdfTeX the version enables certain features (object
streams, png inclusion).
But no guarantee is made for included pdfs: At most
2012/8/1 Philip TAYLOR :
> If I /were/ to propose a replacement language, I would strongly
> advocate JavaScript, which has almost universal uptake, adoption
> and acceptance. From a purely personal perspective, I would also
When LuaTeX started I also toyed with the idea and had a look at
JavaScr
2012/8/1 Philip TAYLOR :
> Martin Schröder wrote:
>> When LuaTeX started I also toyed with the idea and had a look at
>> JavaScript interpreters - they were much larger.
>
> Large enough to have any significant impact on a modern machine,
> which one might reasonably e
2012/8/1 Philip TAYLOR :
> Well, you could always write your own JavaScript interpreter
> in Lua and get the best of both worlds :-)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10259842/would-it-make-sense-to-run-javascript-on-the-lua-vm
We are all very eagerly awaiting your contributions.
I seem to reme
2012/8/2 Peter Dyballa :
> XeTeX has been patched to enable micro-typography in TeX Live 2009. To make
> use of it you need the microtype package v2.5, beta (microtype-xetex.def).
> This came with TeX Live 2010.
AFAIK only protusion. I doubt that expansion is possible with XeTeX.
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2012/8/1 Keith J. Schultz :
> As has been mentioned the source and programming rational behind
> LuaTeX is not documented, at least not publically. Even if one would
> do the programming their is no guarantee that the code will be used or
> allowed.
There have been numerous papers and talks by the
2012/8/6 Zdenek Wagner :
> The fontspec package is already available in lualatex.
It needs luaotfload, which is currently unmaintained.
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2012/8/8 Ulrike Fischer :
> Two years ago I would have said this too. But now I doubt it.
> Opentype fonts are much more complicated that some expandafters or
> the latex output routine. Also - more importantly - I see none of
> the needed discussion going on.
That discussion is not helped by disc
2012/11/20 Philip TAYLOR :
> Absolutely. All because TeX does not (sadly) have two reference
> points for a box. For this reason in real life situations I use
That's why LaTeX3 has coffins. :-)
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2012/12/11 :
> I'm trying to generate PDF/X-1a2001 spec-compliant PDF files with
> xetex/xdvipdfmx (xdvipdfmx-0.7.8 from TeXLive 2012), and I'm running into
> one small bug that I can't find a good way to work around. The xdvipdfmx
> backend seems to be omitting the /ID field in the PDF trailer.
2013/1/10 Zdenek Wagner :
> Even in TeX Live 2012 xdvipdfmx as default produces PDF 1.5. If PDF
And how does one tell xetex to produce PDF 1.6?
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2013/1/10 Adam Twardoch (List) :
> versions. I'm not sure which is the highest version of PDF that XeTeX
> supports, but my guess it'd be 1.3 or 1.4. But that's also a popular
> practice by some print publishers. Recently I had to submit a print ad
> to a magazine, and their requirement was that it
2013/1/10 Martin Schröder :
> 2013/1/10 Zdenek Wagner :
>> Even in TeX Live 2012 xdvipdfmx as default produces PDF 1.5. If PDF
>
> And how does one tell xetex to produce PDF 1.6?
See http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/8822/5763
and http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/8826/5763
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2013/1/10 Philip TAYLOR :
> and it wass therefore a great surprise to discover that it could not
> handle a version of PDF that was specified six years ago.
Please stop wasting electrons: It is perfectly able to do that.
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2013/1/10 Philip TAYLOR :
> "Could the spurious warning that XeTeX cannot handle PDF 1.6 please be
> removed ?".
Yes. See my other mail. :-)
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2013/1/10 Philip TAYLOR :
> Excellent, thank you Kevin. It is good that there are
> so many helpful people on this list.
http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2013-January/023983.html
See also the first hit on
https://www.google.de/search?q=xetex+**+WARNING+**+Version+of+PDF+file+%281.6%29+is+newer+tha
2013/1/11 Philip TAYLOR :
> Martin Schröder wrote:
>
>> PS: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=xetex+set+pdf+version&l=1#seen :-)
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=xetex+set+pdf+version&l=1
> Very useful. Not.
Very useful. :-)
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2013/1/15 Khaled Hosny :
> We don't usually make separate releases, so, unless you are welling to
> build from git[1], the answer is yes.
There's always tlcontrib. :-)
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Hi,
I'm hunting down a bug with jpeg inclusion (Dimension too large).
Is the bugtracker at sf (https://sourceforge.net/p/xetex/_list/tickets)
watched by the team or is there another one?
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2013/4/17 Jeremy Van Cleve :
> \documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[multidot]{grffile}
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2015-04-27 16:40 GMT+02:00 Apostolos Syropoulos :
> Many consider that JSON will eventually replace XML.
Only if JSON gets schemes.
http://json-schema.org/ exists, but is not widely used.
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2016-07-12 19:24 GMT+02:00 Philip Taylor :
> If I had the time, I would (see my earlier message about incremental TeX live
> installations);
You invest your time unwisely. You save some time by not installing
everything and
waste more of your (and our!) time by fixing problems from this
incomplet
2016-11-12 22:45 GMT+01:00 Joseph Wright :
> lower-level pseudo-random number generator (I assume from C: there is
> very little actual code in the pdfTeX WEB source to implement these).
IIRC it came from MetaPost.
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2017-01-24 6:55 GMT+01:00 Gildas Hamel :
> I just updated fontspec from 2.5a to 2.5c via TeX Live Utility. I cannot get
> italic face to work. I had to revert to 2.5a. Do others see the same thing?
> —Gildas
Known problem:
https://github.com/wspr/fontspec/issues/254
http://tex.stackexchange.com/q
2018-04-26 14:20 GMT+02:00 Carrs :
> a newbie question. I would like advice on which TeX-based software it would
> be best to learn in detail for my typesetting plans. So far, I have learned
> a little TeX and a little LaTeX, but not enough of either to tell me which
> will work best for me.
Pleas
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