Hi there,
I would like to know whether it is possible to use the Omega fonts (at
least for Latin, ancient Greek and vowelized Hebrew) with XeLaTeX.
I won't do it myself and I don't know how to google for it.
Would anyone be so kind to provide me with a minimal sample?
Thanks for your help,
Pa
Hi Jonathan,
I have some questions about this new xetex version that might be
interesting to other members of the list.
Do you plan to support font expansion?
Are optical bounds planned? (My understanding of your explanation at
http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2009-October/014482.html is that
Hi there,
due to the version of geometry included in TeXLive 2009, the following
code crashes xetex when compiling it with Ubuntu 10.04:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[a4paper,truedimen,mag=1500]{geometry}
\begin{document}
Hi
\end{document}
This bug should be included also in all Ubuntu
On 05/08/2010 11:47 AM, Vafa Khalighi wrote:
due to the version of geometry included in TeXLive 2009, the
following code crashes xetex when compiling it with Ubuntu 10.04:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[a4paper,truedimen,mag=1500]{geometry}
\begin{document}
Hi
On 05/08/2010 12:17 PM, Vafa Khalighi wrote:
and there is no "tlmgr" in their version of TeXLive 2009. So you can
only update TeXLive if they ever wish to update it.
No packaged TL 2009 version provides tlmgr, since this would be a mess
to maintain.
This is I I asked to those user in this li
On 05/08/2010 12:55 PM, Vafa Khalighi wrote:
Have you updated TeXLive 2009 or all files are the original
versions? (I mean, which is your geometry version?)
Yes, updated everything. My version of geometry package is : 2010/03/13 v5.3
This is the reason why it doesn't crash. The origin
On 05/08/2010 01:29 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
Am 08.05.2010 um 12:46 schrieb Pablo Rodríguez:
I would rather avoid that, because I think that packaging systems are
extremely useful and comfortable to the user.
Just think of TeX Live and its tlmgr as a OS-independent packaging
system
On 05/08/2010 02:45 PM, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
Am Sat, 08 May 2010 11:36:30 +0200 schrieb Pablo Rodríguez:
[...]
For those Ubuntu users that can confirm the crash, could you mark that
this bug also affects to you?
Well sorry, if you are using a texlive version without update
manager it is up
Hi there,
from section 6 from the polyglossia documentation, I guess that I can
replace the Spanish chapter name with Tema writing:
\gappto\spanishcaptions{\renewcommand{\chaptername}{Tema}}
But the following code has the standard name “Capítulo” as chapter name:
\documentclass[10pt]
On 05/18/2010 09:39 AM, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
Am Mon, 17 May 2010 18:44:52 +0200 schrieb Pablo Rodríguez:
Hi there,
from section 6 from the polyglossia documentation, I guess that I can
replace the Spanish chapter name with Tema writing:
\gappto\spanishcaptions{\renewcommand
Hi Jonathan,
I have a question about the experimental version: do you plan to include
font expansion?
I don't know how much this implementation differs from the margin
kerning, but I guess this would be easier to deploy by users than margin
kerning, since the same value would be applied to s
Hi there,
I want to achieve a kind of emphasizing which used in Greek through
letterspacing.
I have tried the LetterSpace and WordSpace properties, but I don't think
they are intended for this.
The proper way seems to be the \so command from the soul package. But
there is a weird issue wit
n 05/24/2010 01:50 PM, John Was wrote:
Hello
Until someone works out how to fix this in SOUL, you could try the
following.
[...]
This isn't as versatile as SOUL - it won't hyphenate - but it might do
until something better turns up. If you find \letterspace
\endlettersrpace too tedious to type,
On 05/24/2010 02:53 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
On 24 May 2010, at 11:30, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
Hi there,
I want to achieve a kind of emphasizing which used in Greek through
letterspacing.
I have tried the LetterSpace and WordSpace properties, but I don't think they
are intended for this
On 05/24/2010 03:00 PM, Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote:
Hi Pablo:
I did a little experimenting with your sample ... and I'm not sure
what's actually happening, but if I load /this/ preamble and change the
polyglossia commands to what I've used before (although there may be
reasons for what you've got
On 05/24/2010 04:00 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
[...]
If you'd change your example to
[...]
you might see in the LOG file twice:
Missing character: There is no ν in font ectt1000!
Missing character: There is no ο in font ectt1000!
Missing character: There is no ῦ in font ectt1000!
Missing charact
On 05/24/2010 06:06 PM, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
Am Mon, 24 May 2010 16:49:15 +0200 schrieb Pablo Rodríguez:
[...]
Ah. Bingo. soul.sty defines the fix font \s...@tt
(\font\s...@tt=ectt1000) and use it in various places when analyzing
the input. And obviously one gets problems as soon as words ends
On 05/24/2010 06:31 PM, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
Ulrike Fischer wrote:
I can solve the problem with the euro sign by resetting the font to
latin modern typewriter with
\makeatletter \font\s...@tt="LMMono10-Regular"\makeatletter
Or maybe even :
> \makeatletter \font\s...@tt="LMMono10-Regular"\
On 05/24/2010 08:50 PM, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
You are right, but I'm afraid this doesn't solve the problem with
"Reconstruction failed" error messages. Thanks anyway
No, sorry, I didn't think it would fix that problem, but
it could have cause
On 05/25/2010 09:37 AM, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
Am Mon, 24 May 2010 19:16:07 +0200 schrieb Pablo Rodríguez:
[...]
Is there any way to solve it?
I got the error only after I enabled the hyphenation patters. This
indicates that the problem are not spaces but hyphenation. The
documentation of soul
On 05/25/2010 05:28 PM, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
Am Tue, 25 May 2010 17:12:08 +0200 schrieb Pablo Rodríguez:
(I know that \makeatletter ends with \makeatother,
although I'm not sure what are they used for ;-).)
Well \makeatletter makes @ (at) to a letter, which means that you
can use com
Hi Jonathan and others,
some days ago, I asked for a way to enable soul to properly emphasize by
letterspacing an ancient Greek text.
Jonathan replied that Letterspace should be the way to go. It doesn't
seem to work, since the first line on page 6 from
http://www.ousia.tk/grammatike.pdf sho
Hi there,
I have just accidentally discovered that LetterSpace behaves differently
if the whole paragraph is set with this feature or not.
The minimal example:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Theano Didot}
\begin{document}
χαλεπὰ \addfontfeature{LetterSpace=12
On 06/01/2010 10:25 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
On 31 May 2010, at 22:13, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
[...]
If you copy the resulting text (from
http://www.ousia.tk/wrong-letterspace.pdf), you will see that only the second
line is properly typeset, or at least, there are no blank spaces between
On 05/29/2010 09:21 PM, John Was wrote:
Hello
In plain XeTeX I find the passage in the URL works OK with letter-spaced
Greek if I give at the start:
\font \myfont =
"MinionPro-Regular:+onum:mapping=tex-text:letterspace=12" at 12pt
\tolerance 500
\myfont
\hsize 24pc
Hi John,
many thanks for y
On 06/01/2010 09:22 PM, John Was wrote:
Hello Pablo
[...]
So the lines to paste in before a Greek passage (to see if they would
work) are:
\font \myfont =
"MinionPro-Regular:+onum:mapping=tex-text:letterspace=12" at 12pt
\tolerance 500
\myfont
\uselanguage{ancientgreek}
That should give you qu
On 06/01/2010 09:47 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
On 1 Jun 2010, at 20:00, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
I'm not especially interested in LetterSpace, but in hyphenation with
Letterspace (as you can see at http://www.ousia.tk/grammatike.pdf).
I can't think of any reason why LetterSpace shou
On 06/05/2010 01:06 AM, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
Am 04.06.2010 um 21:14 schrieb Rob Oakes:
A couple of weeks ago, I was putting together an article about
different utilities available for working with PDF documents on Linux
(http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/26/pdf-linux). While doing
s
On 06/04/2010 01:42 PM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
In a recent thread here, luaTeX was said to be the intended eventual
replacement for pdfTeX.
This piece of information is based on earlier plans of the pdfTeX and
LuaTeX teams, when the intention was indeed that LuaTeX would become
pdfTeX 2.0
Hi there,
setting Spanish as the main document language in polyglossia leaves all
first paragraphs not to be indented.
I'm on TL2009 and the indentfirst package doesn't work at all. How can I
get indentation on first paragraphs in Spanish?
Thanks for your help,
Pablo
---
On 06/06/2010 12:03 AM, enrico.grego...@univr.it wrote:
[...]
I'm on TL2009 and the indentfirst package doesn't work at all.
How can I get indentation on first paragraphs in Spanish?
[...]
Minimal example?
Thanks for your reply, Enrico.
Your sample works fine, but I'm afraid I can't provide a
On 06/06/2010 02:42 PM, enrico.grego...@univr.it wrote:
On 06/06/2010 12:03 AM, enrico.grego...@univr.it wrote:
[...]
I'm on TL2009 and the indentfirst package doesn't work at all.
How can I get indentation on first paragraphs in Spanish?
[...]
Your sample works fine, but I'm afraid I can't pr
On 06/06/2010 09:12 PM, Alan Munn wrote:
On Jun 6, 2010, at 12:29 PM, Nicholas Oettle wrote:
I'm attempting to embed a sound (.wav) file into a XeLaTeX document
using the movie15 package. There appears to have been an issue with
this package with XeLaTeX in the past, but I am wondering if this
On 06/07/2010 01:46 AM, Wilfred van Rooijen wrote:
Hi,
Unfortunately not. movie15 requires pdfTeX because it
I think there is one:
http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/asymptote/patches/movie15_dvipdfmx.sty
From the filename, I would expect that this package uses or requires the
dvipdfmx pro
On 06/09/2010 05:45 PM, José Carlos Santos wrote:
Hi all:
I have been working on a text whose main font is DTL Unico:
http://www.dutchtypelibrary.nl/Unico_rdrct.html
I have just noticed that the "fi" and "fl" ligatures are not created. To
be more precise: if I compile this document:
[...]
I
On 06/13/2010 06:13 PM, Daron Wilson wrote:
[...]
I'm not sure if more information is needed, but if anyone could point me in the right
direction for a solution, or let me know if this a "time to move on" problem, I
would be grateful. If there would be better/easier ways to get good Greek hyph
On 06/13/2010 09:06 PM, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
[...]
All you have to do replace the \begin{greek} ... \end{greek} environment
with \selectlanguage{greek} or \selectotherlanguage{greek}.
My fault: otherlanguage not a command, but also an environment, so you
can replace \begin{greek} ... \end
Hi there,
trying to check whether a rather large passage in ancient Greek was
properly hyphenated, I realized that it would be extremely helpful if
xlxtra could provide also the spaces in \showhpyphens.
Otherwise with a medium text it could be difficult to identify words (to
check for hyphen
On 06/14/2010 06:38 PM, Will Robertson wrote:
On 2010-06-14 05:24:47 +0930, Pablo Rodríguez said:
trying to check whether a rather large passage in ancient Greek was
properly hyphenated, I realized that it would be extremely helpful if
xlxtra could provide also the spaces in \showhpyphens
Hi there,
I have installed TL 2010 from TUG and XeLaTeX crashes with rather large
documents (books not written by me). It crashes also with --no-pdf
option activated.
I'm afraid that I cannot provide a minimal sample, I cannot make the
texts available. all I can do is to attach the crash bel
On 06/25/2010 12:49 AM, Michiel Kamermans wrote:
On 6/24/2010 9:07 AM, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
Hi there,
I have installed TL 2010 from TUG and XeLaTeX crashes with rather
large documents (books not written by me). It crashes also with
--no-pdf option activated.
I'm afraid that I cannot pr
Hi there,
thanks to all that replied to my previous messages.
Norbert, sorry for the typo: it crashes with XeLaTeX from TL2010 and it
compiled fine with XeLaTeX from TL2009 (and 2008, or even 2007).
The text-anonymized can be found at
http://www.ousia.tk/xelatex-crasher.tex. Now it crashes o
On 06/26/2010 03:19 AM, Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 12:03:32AM +0200, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
The text-anonymized can be found at
http://www.ousia.tk/xelatex-crasher.tex. Now it crashes on page 13.
[...]
The problem is the footnote broken across pages.
Many thanks for
On 06/29/2010 01:51 PM, Akira Kakuto wrote:
Hi Pablo,
I hope Jonathan can fix the bug included in XeTeX with protrusion support.
Fixed by Thanh, 0.9997.3.
Thanks for the info, Akira.
Does anyone know when will it be updated in TL2010?
Thanks again,
Pablo
--
Hi there,
checking whether a clash between fontspec and babel in LuaLaTeX (already
reported at
http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/luatex/2010-August/001895.html), I have
just discovered new issues with this document:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[german,spanish]{babel}
\ne
On 09/21/2010 09:56 PM, Michiel Kamermans wrote:
On 9/21/2010 12:45 PM, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
Hi there,
checking whether a clash between fontspec and babel in LuaLaTeX
(already reported at
http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/luatex/2010-August/001895.html), I have
just discovered new issues with
On 09/25/2010 06:44 PM, Axel Kielhorn wrote:
Hello!
Some weeks ago I suggested getting information about XeTeX into lshort.
Well, here is the first draft.
[...]
I am open for suggestions and corrections (Note that I am not a native speaker.)
Hi Axel,
if you allow me a suggestion I'd rather w
On 09/26/2010 03:56 PM, Axel Kielhorn wrote:
Am 26.09.2010 um 13:04 schrieb Pablo Rodríguez:
if you allow me a suggestion I'd rather write “It's all Ελληνικά” instead of
“It’s all γρηηκ to me”.
I was actually thinking about that, but wondered if it would be too obscure.
Now I
Hi there,
for some strange reason using both XeTeX and LuaTeX the \emph{} command
contained in the sample document below exceeds TeX capacity:
\documentclass[12pt]{slides}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setsansfont{FreeSans}
\begin{document}
hi \emph{hello}
\end{document}
This only happens when fonts
Hi Will, Khaled and others,
as Ulrike Fischer has noticed
(http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2010-October/018895.html), fontspec
enters in a loop italics are defined as slanted:
\def\itdefault{sl}
The documentclass slides does it by default.
I have fixed that in my document adding:
On 10/18/2010 07:21 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 07:00:24PM +0200, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
[...]
I have no idea how this would be fixed, but github issue tracker[1] is the
proper place to report bug, at least to make sure it get noticed and not
lost in mailing lists.
[1] http
On 10/19/2010 03:36 AM, Will Robertson wrote:
On 2010-10-19 03:30:24 +1030, Pablo Rodríguez said:
as Ulrike Fischer has noticed
(http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2010-October/018895.html), fontspec
enters in a loop italics are defined as slanted:
\def\itdefault{sl}
This problem, funnily
Hi there,
I have already reported a bug at fontconfig
(https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33765), but I'm
experiencing a weird behavior with this font
(http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/graham/fonts/fuzzyxmas.zip).
I have installed it and it works fine (I only use it with f
Hi there,
with the following document:
\documentclass{slides}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\begin{slide}
first
\end{slide}
\begin{slide}
second
\end{slide}
\end{document}
if I compile it without hyperref, page labels in PDF are fine, but all
page labels are set to zero when compiled
On 02/06/2011 03:42 AM, Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 11:25:42PM +0100, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
\documentclass{slides}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\begin{slide}
first
\end{slide}
\begin{slide}
second
\end{slide}
\end{document}
if I compile it without hyperref, page
On 02/06/2011 03:42 AM, Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
It was not supported by hyperref, because class `slides'
doesn't use \thepage but a complicate combination of counters
slide, note, overlay and page. In 2011/02/05 v6.82a I have now
implemented some support for class `slides' for options
`pdfpagelabel
On 02/07/2011 05:49 PM, Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 04:56:49PM +0100, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
There is a small detail that doesn't work. Specifying
"plainpage=true" in hyperref's options, gives the following warning:
./a.tex:7: Extra \else.
\@hyper@@a
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