Re: [XeTeX] Small caps

2010-03-05 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 04.03.2010 um 18:29 schrieb Gérard Degrez: Is there any way to get the info for fonts of .dfont type? Maybe the Apple Font Tools Suite has something: http://developer.apple.com/textfonts/download (then made for Tiger) -- Greetings Pete It isn't pollution that's harming the environ

Re: [XeTeX] Problem with Deja Vu Sans fonts

2010-03-08 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 08.03.2010 um 17:50 schrieb maxwell: The DejaVu fonts all sit in a separate directory, which fc-list and XeTeX do find; but in a sister directory to the directory containing the .ttf files are a bunch of font config (*.config) files. That is: fonts/ dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.30/

Re: [XeTeX] euenc package -- tex\xelatex\euenc\eu1ence.def problem

2010-03-08 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 08.03.2010 um 21:06 schrieb sjo: I get a complaint from the miktex package installer that the file tex\xelatex\euenc\eu1ence.def is missing. The name is incorrect, the file's name should be: eu1enc.def. So find the file which looks for "eu1ence.def." The LOG file can give a hint

Re: [XeTeX] Problem with Deja Vu Sans fonts

2010-03-09 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 09.03.2010 um 02:01 schrieb Mike Maxwell: I changed the test file to the ff., is this better? Yes! It certainly shows that DejaVu Sans Mono introduces faults when it puts an accent on a glyph. You can see this quite clearly when o- ā́ becomes ó. Latin Modern, the fontspec standard f

Re: [XeTeX] Diameter symbol

2010-03-15 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 15.03.2010 um 12:50 schrieb David Cottenden: Can anyone tell me how I can get a proper internal diameter symbol without having to add a whole maths alphabet (which appears to be what wasysym and mathabx do)? I don't have space for another maths alphabet! In which environment or situa

Re: [XeTeX] Diameter symbol

2010-03-15 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 15.03.2010 um 15:01 schrieb David Cottenden: Or are you looking for EMPTY SET, ∅, at U+2205? DIAMETER SIGN, ⌀, is at U+2300. The latter is the one that I am after, but I know that my main body font doesn't include it. Is there a decent font which does? I'm looking to match with Chaparra

Re: [XeTeX] Trouble Installing TeXLive to HD

2010-03-17 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 17.03.2010 um 03:44 schrieb Alan Jones: Can't exec "./tlpkg/installer/lzma/lzmadec.i386-linux": Permission denied at tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 1045. Are you invoking tlmgr as root, for example as 'sudo tlmgr ...?' The correct sequence of updating should be: sudo tlmgr update

Re: [XeTeX] EuroTeX 2009 proceedings

2010-03-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.03.2010 um 20:39 schrieb Apostolos Syropoulos: I found particularly interesting the work that Taco Hoekwater is doing---he transforms part of the WEB2C codebase to C so to liberate TeX et a. from the Pascal codebase. I wouldn't describe it that way... Web2C is a 20 years old C pr

Re: [XeTeX] EuroTeX 2009 proceedings

2010-03-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 20.03.2010 um 00:13 schrieb David Perry: When I started learning TeX, I could find only one editor, TeXworks, that was Unicode-aware. And that is still the case, although I see that TeXnicCenter has now rolled out an alpha version of a new, Unicode-based edition of their software. F

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX and ligatures for dashes

2010-03-21 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 21.03.2010 um 08:24 schrieb heliotropion: \setmainfont[Mapping=TeX-text]{CMU Serif} The mapping file's name is tex-text – could you try it with a correct example? -- Greetings Pete Hard Disk, n.: A device that allows users to delete vast quantities of data with simple mnemon

Re: [XeTeX] Draftwatermark and pdfpages

2010-03-23 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 23.03.2010 um 18:39 schrieb David Cottenden: Does anyone know why this happens, and whether there's anything that I can do about it? Leaving the package away? Thinking it over? (Why is something "external" which is added to, say, a DRAFT version not DRAFT?) Asking the author whether i

Re: [XeTeX] [texlive] opentype fonts from $TEXMFLOCAL

2010-03-25 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 25.03.2010 um 09:37 schrieb Diederick C. Niehorster: I heard about font.conf, but there is none of those in my $TEXMFLOCAL tree... The file's proper name is fonts.conf. It belongs to libfontconfig, i.e., fc-list/fc-cache etc. (not to TeX, but comes on MS Losedos with XeTeX/xdvipdfmx).

Re: [XeTeX] Lao typesetting in XeTeX

2010-03-28 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 28.03.2010 um 15:38 schrieb Brian Wilson: 1. Where do I start? Ba sending an almost minimal example and describing what actually is not working... -- Greetings Pete "Klingon function calls do not have 'parameters' - they have 'arguments' - and they ALWAYS WIN THEM."

Re: [XeTeX] Fwd: xetex, itrans and telugu

2010-03-29 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 29.03.2010 um 01:33 schrieb Kattamuri Ekanadham: Font "Pothana/ICU" does not contain script 'Telugu' You can use otfinfo. It tells me that the font's name is Pothana2000 and that it contains support for the Telugu script. And FontForge warns me that the font's name is illegal: it h

Re: [XeTeX] verse numbers

2010-04-11 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 11.04.2010 um 05:46 schrieb Brian Wilson: Regarding the setting of the font size globally, I have not succeeded. Do you know NFSS2, the second version of the New Font Selection Scheme? \fontsize{9}{15}\selectfont -- Greetings Pete We have to expect it, otherwise we would be

Re: [XeTeX] No clipping support in XeTeX and \textcelsius

2010-04-13 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 13.04.2010 um 04:21 schrieb Tiandao Li: \usepackage{textcomp} \begin{document} Today is 25\textcelsius. What you're using here is an emulation inside a 7- or 8-bit "plain old" LaTeX. It's based on the use of virtual fonts and very irregular font encodings. This should not be used wi

Re: [XeTeX] Xetex won't compile without Lmodern fonts

2010-04-15 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 15.04.2010 um 23:56 schrieb Raphael Frey: It seems that Xetex won’t compile a file that uses the ‘fontspec’ package if the ‘lmodern’ fonts are not installed resp. not available on the system Right! Do you know a better Unicode encoded font which is available on every system with a TeX in

Re: [XeTeX] Word wrapping in Lao

2010-04-16 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 16.04.2010 um 09:15 schrieb Brian Wilson: Lao, Thai and Khmer space at the phrasal level and not the word level. It might be worth writing to tex-live at tug.org. On this list the makers of the TeX Live distributions reside. They either should know themselves or others who can help ex

Re: [XeTeX] selecting font size

2010-04-16 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 16.04.2010 um 09:47 schrieb Brian Wilson: For \documentclass{book} I can choose between 10pt-12pt. (Could be memoir offers more.) What you can do is to create a file bk17.clo... In /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base you can find the "main" document book.cls and its co

Re: [XeTeX] Xetex won't compile without Lmodern fonts

2010-04-16 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 16.04.2010 um 00:20 schrieb Raphael Frey: (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/euenc/eu1lmr.fd)kpathsea: Invalid fontname `[lmroman10-regular]', contains '[' This rather looks like a mismatch of XeTeX components (from system and private area). You could insert a \listfiles statem

Re: [XeTeX] Word wrapping in Lao

2010-04-16 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 16.04.2010 um 15:24 schrieb Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd): "Thank you for your suggestion. We agree that this would result in a significant improvement to our software, but we do not feel that this improvement should be made in isolation -- rather, we feel that we should make major chang

Re: [XeTeX] Xetex won't compile without Lmodern fonts

2010-04-17 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 17.04.2010 um 04:01 schrieb Wilfred van Rooijen: Thus the so-called TeX-Gyre fonts, of which Latin Modern is one, provides a systematic re-implementation of the most popular latex- fonts. The fontspec package, unless instructed otherwise, will default to latin modern, so yes, lmodern is

Re: [XeTeX] Xetex won't compile without Lmodern fonts

2010-04-17 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 17.04.2010 um 11:41 schrieb Wilfred van Rooijen: Hmmm, was my information wrong in some way? The GUST website mentions that the Tex Gyre fonts are closely related to the Latin Modern project. So yes, maybe Latin Modern is strictly speaking not a Tex Gyre font, but it is at least highly

Re: [XeTeX] Arabic fonts and ligatures after migrating machine

2010-04-29 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 29.04.2010 um 08:47 schrieb Manuel Souto Pico: The font I use is Scheherazade. I copied the file ScheherazadeRegAAT.ttf in /System/Library/Fonts (although it doesn't appear in the Font Book, I don't know why). Two mistakes: don't copy, and don't copy into the system's own "private" area

Re: [XeTeX] Arabic fonts and ligatures after migrating machine

2010-04-29 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 29.04.2010 um 18:28 schrieb Gareth Hughes: Has anyone yet mentioned that the Script feature automatically selects the ICU renderer? Yes, this has been mentioned more than once here, but not yet in this thread. Since XeTeX provides more than just two font renderers it would not make it

Re: [XeTeX] Table of contents

2010-04-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.04.2010 um 10:56 schrieb José Carlos Santos: But I think it is a flaw. Which proof do you have? -- Greetings Pete Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, gra

Re: [XeTeX] Scaling graphics

2010-04-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.04.2010 um 10:59 schrieb José Carlos Santos: \includegraphics[scale=.4]{Figura_3-1.jpg} Does the starred form perform better? Does it work better when you give the maximal height or width? -- Greetings? Pete Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so. ---

Re: [XeTeX] Scaling graphics

2010-04-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.04.2010 um 12:15 schrieb José Carlos Santos: Does it work better when you give the maximal height or width? If you mean using the \resizebox command, yes, it does work. Thanks. No, I thought of: \includegraphics[height=96mm]{Kollaps.jpg} -- Greetings Pete Ce qui été comp

Re: [XeTeX] Table of contents

2010-04-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.04.2010 um 12:09 schrieb José Carlos Santos: When the \tableofcontents command is found, the line \XeTeXinputencoding "cp1252" was not read yet. Which is your proof? The command \XeTeXinputencoding resets the default UTF-8 or UTF-16 input encoding to something else, restricted, aw

Re: [XeTeX] Table of contents

2010-04-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.04.2010 um 12:44 schrieb José Carlos Santos: My guess is that what happens is the a consequence of the presence of the line \XeTeXdefaultencoding "cp1252" is that the .toc file doesn't get written in unicode. Am I right? No. It just tells XeTeX that the source code is not the defa

Re: [XeTeX] Table of contents

2010-04-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.04.2010 um 12:54 schrieb José Carlos Santos: And all because I wanted to use a certain encoding instead of another one! Besides, this has nothing to do with what I wish or do not wish to do, since I am trying to compile a multi-chapter document in which each of the 15 chapters was wr

Re: [XeTeX] Table of contents

2010-04-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.04.2010 um 16:01 schrieb José Carlos Santos: But I *am* using only font for text. So it should be as easy to use only one text encoding. -- Greetings Pete Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a night, but set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. ---

Re: [XeTeX] Scaling graphics

2010-04-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.04.2010 um 15:55 schrieb José Carlos Santos: http://www.fc.up.pt/mp/jcsantos/imagens/Figura_3-1.JPG It's 1358 pixels wide. That's approximately 20" or 50 cm. An ISO A4 page is 21 cm wide. Taking the margins and indentations into account I'd vote to scale it by 0.25. -- Greetings

Re: [XeTeX] Scaling graphics

2010-04-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.04.2010 um 15:55 schrieb José Carlos Santos: http://www.fc.up.pt/mp/jcsantos/imagens/Figura_3-1.JPG It also contains an useless sRGB profile while it's only black and white. Looks like a candidate for TikZ/PGF... Or is the handwriting important? -- Greetings Pete "A TRUE Klin

Re: [XeTeX] Em-dash

2010-04-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.04.2010 um 16:40 schrieb Mike Axiak: I'm actually having the same problem with CMBright. CMBright is not a Unicode encoded font. -- Greetings Pete There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about. – John von Neu

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

2010-05-04 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 04.05.2010 um 23:11 schrieb Karljurgen Feuerherm: Are they coded in C or C++? In both. (And also Objective-C for xdv2pdf.) At least that's the state from before the introduction of margin kerning. -- Greetings ~ O Pete ~~_\\_/% ~ O o ---

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

2010-05-04 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 04.05.2010 um 23:54 schrieb Karljurgen Feuerherm: Ah, bummer. No C++ on Plan9... :( No GCC? If you have some elder GCC without g++, why doesn't it work to compile a newer version of GCC with C++ support? (I think the C++ sources are in xpdf and zlib. XeTeX also uses libfreetype and IC

Re: [XeTeX] failed to build the xdv2pdf driver for Mac OS X

2010-05-06 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 06.05.2010 um 12:43 schrieb Stephen Moye: Is this serious? Why could it be? Xdv2pdf is dead. The code does not change, it's stable now. So to me there is no reason visible to compile it over and over again. -- Greetings Pete "Evolution"o __o

Re: [XeTeX] [off-topic] xetex crash in Ubuntu 10.04

2010-05-08 Thread Peter Dyballa
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. Its like telephony: analogue, digital, VOIP – and m

Re: [XeTeX] margin kerning for xetex: test files

2010-05-08 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 04.05.2010 um 17:30 schrieb Thanh Han The: I have uploaded some test files to xetex.tk, in case someone is interested in seeing/trying them. I used these test files to check whether HZ enabled XeTeX (checked out a few days ago) XeTeX 3.1415926-2.2-0.9997.0 (Web2C 2010/dev)

Re: [XeTeX] Building xetex issues?

2010-05-08 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 03.05.2010 um 15:02 schrieb Jonathan Kew: On 3 May 2010, at 13:47, Stephen Moye wrote: I got the microtype version of xetex, and the build process seemed to go well until the very last few lines. Is this a fatal error? Well, it prevented the compilation finishing, so you got no binary

Re: [XeTeX] Building xetex issues?

2010-05-10 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 10.05.2010 um 13:04 schrieb Jonathan Kew: And such a version will no longer run on 10.3.9 or 10.4, so there's a price to pay for moving to the newer APIs. The microtype/HZ enhanced version already does not compile with Tiger and Jaguar support: the functions CGFontGetGlyphWithGlyphName

Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures and searching in PDFs

2010-05-11 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 11.05.2010 um 14:13 schrieb Peter Baker: the version I posted the other day This seems to have exactly the same version number as the font files which came with TeX Live 2009... -- Greetings Pete To drink without thirst and to make love all the time, madam, it is only these which

Re: [XeTeX] margin kerning for xetex: test files

2010-05-11 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 08.05.2010 um 14:55 schrieb Peter Dyballa: Until now I compiled and uploaded: And now I found that the PPC only and Universal Binary of xetex, compiled with LLVM GCC 4.2.1, both fail ("crash") with a segmentation fault at exactly the same spot when run as xelatex:

Re: [XeTeX] Problems with fontspec and mathspec

2010-05-12 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 12.05.2010 um 16:34 schrieb Tobias Schoel: ! LaTeX Error: Encoding scheme `EU1' unknown. Do you see what I see, i.e., *LaTeX Error*? To me this looks distinct from a *XeTeX Error*. Could you check whether you were accidentally using latex instead of xelatex? -- Mit friedvollen Grüße

Re: [XeTeX] Problems with fontspec and mathspec

2010-05-12 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 13.05.2010 um 00:13 schrieb Khaled Hosny: This is a macro package error, latex still identify itself as latex, no matter what engine you are using. Then the error is that fontspec was not loaded. Because it's fontspec which defines the EU1 encoding. -- Greetings Pete A morning w

Re: [XeTeX] Mathspec and babel make xelatex hang

2010-05-13 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 13.05.2010 um 17:18 schrieb Ulrike Fischer: Simply remove the xunicode line, xltxtra will load it anyway. Actually mathspec will do it... -- Mit friedvollen Grüßen Pete Hupende Autos beißen nicht. -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List

Re: [XeTeX] titlesec and polyglossia problem

2010-05-14 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 14.05.2010 um 15:44 schrieb Ahmad Essam: \usepackage[helvetica]{quotchap} It's not polyglossia, it's this command: it is going to use a 7-bit or 8-bit (OT1 or T1) encoded Helvetica font. Such a font cannot contain any Arabic so nothing gets printed. Adapt quotchap that it uses fonts

Re: [XeTeX] protrusion for small caps

2010-05-18 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 18.05.2010 um 01:06 schrieb Robert: Is there a simple way to find out these glyph names? Dump them! Apple offers the Font Tools suite from it's developers site (via ftxdumperfuser, creates an XML file), FontForge might be able to perform similarly. Python and Perl also have modules to

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX font options

2010-05-18 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 18.05.2010 um 08:35 schrieb Mark van Dijk: This is a valid warning, but only for non-emphasized (= italic) text. While the warnings are an annoyance at most rather than yielding real problems, I keep wondering: how do I set special options for certain variants of the font, like a Swash optio

Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem

2010-05-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.05.2010 um 02:47 schrieb Vafa Khalighi: Could you please send a minimal example and what font should I use for this script? Fonts with Syriac support come with X11: the Beth Mardutho (Serto, Estrangelo, East Syriac) fonts in /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/OTF/SyrCOM*. http://www.bethmardut

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX font options

2010-05-20 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.05.2010 um 13:09 schrieb Mark van Dijk: When selecting the font, is this enough to make it work in the document? I don't know what "selecting the font" means. The example connects a font choice with a LaTeX command. {\cjkfont } uses this font to type that text in this font. Or sh

Re: [XeTeX] Greek letterspacing with soul

2010-05-24 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 24.05.2010 um 12:30 schrieb Pablo Rodríguez: I want to achieve a kind of emphasizing which used in Greek through letterspacing. Then use fontspec's interface! If you'd change your example to \documentclass[10pt]{book} \thispagestyle{empty} \usepackage[no-math]{

Re: [XeTeX] Asymptote

2010-05-25 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 25.05.2010 um 19:19 schrieb José Carlos Santos: and I cannot exclude the possibility that my version is "broken" in some sense It is indeed! What you've found has been found and fixed earlier, last autumn, by Ross Moore. The cause is that PostScript and PDF divide one inch into 72 eq

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

2010-05-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.05.2010 um 08:52 schrieb Apostolos Syropoulos: Well there are UTF-8 encoded hyphenation patterns for monotonic Greek, polytonic Greek and ancient Greek and they are included in the TeXLive 2009 DVD. And how do you set up the preamble that hyphenation works? The puzzling thing is th

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

2010-05-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.05.2010 um 17:22 schrieb Apostolos Syropoulos: I am using only XeLaTeX. Funny how Cretan this sounds! Your previously attached test.tex file certainly is not XeLaTeX... Who wrote and compiled it with your version of xelatex? -- Greetings Pete The problem with the French is tha

Re: [XeTeX] [OS X TeX] Accented characters in Xe(La)TeX

2010-05-31 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 31.05.2010 um 23:31 schrieb cfr...@imapmail.org: Attached: source and pdf On Leopard I see no difference between "Venturis ADF" and "But"... -- Greetings Pete Windows, c'est un peu comme le beaujolais nouveau: à chaque nouvelle cuvée on sait que ce sera dégueulasse, mais on en pren

Re: [XeTeX] [OS X TeX] Accented characters in Xe(La)TeX

2010-05-31 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 01.06.2010 um 00:03 schrieb Ross Moore: Now here's my variant of your example, with all font characters showing correctly, and constructed where necessary. Ross, the correct code points are: [Ẅ] 1E84 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W WITH DIAERESIS [ẅ] 1E85 LATIN SMALL LETTER W

Re: [XeTeX] [OS X TeX] Accented characters in Xe(La)TeX

2010-05-31 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 01.06.2010 um 01:13 schrieb cfr...@imapmail.org: On Leopard I see no difference between "Venturis ADF" and "But"... Do you mean that you do not see the incorrect characters in the PDF I sent you? Or do you mean you do not see them when you process the source I sent? My self-compiled (st

Re: [XeTeX] [OS X TeX] Accented characters in Xe(La)TeX

2010-05-31 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 01.06.2010 um 01:06 schrieb Ross Moore: What I really need now are 2 things: 1. an easy way to access variants for accents, according to whether they go over upper/lower-case letters; Linotype FontExplorer X, Apple Fonttools suite, FontForge; access via glyph IDs. ^ has glyph ID

Re: [XeTeX] [OS X TeX] Accented characters in Xe(La)TeX

2010-06-04 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 31.05.2010 um 23:31 schrieb cfr...@imapmail.org: Attached: source and pdf The effect is certainly Tiger based. I used the Venturis fonts from TeX Live 2008 and 2009 (the files have not changed between release dates). I cleared font and application caches before switching to the othe

Re: [XeTeX] XITS Math font - first beata

2010-06-06 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 06.06.2010 um 18:11 schrieb George N. White III: cmsy is still being used somehow, somewhere: Page numbers, footnote marks – you could try to disable page numbers and leave footnotes for another try... -- Greetings Pete There's no place like ~ – (UNIX Guru)

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

2010-06-14 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 14.06.2010 um 06:23 schrieb Alan Munn: multicolumn -> \multicolumn The \ are OK in my copy. Maybe your eMail client gets confused from Ashok inserting the whole digest in his response. Actually to nothing. This is really ugly. Not even trying to adjust the subject. -- Greetings P

Re: [XeTeX] ellipsis glyph missing from font

2010-06-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.06.2010 um 15:59 schrieb Avi Wollman: Is there a way using \newfontfamily to define "..." on a font which is missing ellipsis "..." glyph ? No. But you can make … an active character which either uses a different font to type this character or is bound to a macro which inserts three

Re: [XeTeX] Problem: Beamer+xelatex+\XeTeXdefaultencoding

2010-06-22 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 22.06.2010 um 01:26 schrieb Heiko Oberdiek: \documentclass{article} \XeTeXdefaultencoding "UTF-8" \usepackage{hyperref} \begin{document} \end{document} I think that it is up to Jonathan and Heiko to figure out why their coding creates this kind of undesirable interaction. The problem is

Re: [XeTeX] Hyphenating Tamil

2010-06-24 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 24.06.2010 um 12:25 schrieb Venkatesan. S.K. (TNQ): But I am not able to break any word at all. Could you try it with the \fontspec line in the preamble and not inside the proper document text? -- Greetings Pete Math illiteracy affects 7 out of every 5 Americans. ---

Re: [XeTeX] Hyphenating Tamil

2010-06-26 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 26.06.2010 um 06:40 schrieb Venkatesan. S.K. (TNQ): Undefined control sequence. l.94 \newXeTeXintercharclass Just update! (With tlmgr, for example.) -- Mit friedvollen Grüßen Pete Spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time. – Bill Gates, Jan 20

Re: [XeTeX] Hyphenating Tamil

2010-06-26 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 26.06.2010 um 17:28 schrieb Khaled Hosny: I do maintain 4 TeX distributions; texlive from Ubuntu (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. Yes, this scheme might work p

Re: [XeTeX] xelatex, segmentation fault, Mac OS X 10.6.4

2010-06-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.06.2010 um 01:55 schrieb Jonas Zimmermann: I'm getting a segmentation fault when I try to compile a xelatex document which compiles fine on my girlfriend's machine You could try to produce the XDV file first (-no-pdf) and then invoke xdvipdfmx with -vv or -vvv to see whether it's act

Re: [XeTeX] xelatex, segmentation fault, Mac OS X 10.6.4

2010-06-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.06.2010 um 11:14 schrieb Jonas Zimmermann: It's producing the xdv file which causes the segfault. Are you really claiming that it's XeTeX which fails? And not xdvipdfmx? This is a rather rare situation... The SVN problem is new to me and I don't understand it. Maybe you're using

Re: [XeTeX] xelatex, segmentation fault, Mac OS X 10.6.4

2010-06-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.06.2010 um 14:48 schrieb Jonas Zimmermann: I've used "xelatex -no-pdf C.tex", which is what I suppose your remark about using -no-pdf means? Exactly! And this step already fails? Also, I'm on TeXLive 2009, if that helps. That's OK, and that's the distribution for which the binaries

Re: [XeTeX] xetex-microtype font config files

2010-07-08 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 08.07.2010 um 00:48 schrieb Stephan Hugel: Where can I obtain information about preparing config files for other fonts? Did you read the microtype documentation? (Just 200 pages.) -- Mit friedvollen Grüßen Pete Es macht schon Spaß, Leute zu hassen: Nie gehen die Ideen aus! -

Re: [XeTeX] xetex-microtype font config files

2010-07-08 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 08.07.2010 um 22:17 schrieb Stephan Hugel: The manual also fails to explain how I should be titling the families in an xetex-microtype font config file (as an example: in the standard microtype font config files (Cf. mt-pad.cfg), ‘pad’ (l. 47) refers to the ‘Adobe Garamond’ font. The "shor

Re: [XeTeX] combining characters in isolation

2010-07-11 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 11.07.2010 um 06:27 schrieb Mike Maxwell: I've tried putting a ZWNJ, ZWJ, ZWSP, and CGJx; none of them work. I either get a rectangular box or a dashed circle to the left (or in one case, to the right) of the combining character. Why do expect you could put some thing on top of no thin

Re: [XeTeX] problems with some fonts

2010-07-23 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 23.07.2010 um 02:30 schrieb Ernest Adrogué: I am experiencing some problems with certain fonts. First, with a font called Beteckna. Bold face and italics don't work (are replaced with medium weight and upright shape). There are no error messages. According to fontconfig bold and italics shou

Re: [XeTeX] problems with some fonts

2010-07-23 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 23.07.2010 um 11:21 schrieb Ernest Adrogué: This is what I get: $ fc-list : file family fullname | grep -i beteckna /usr/share/fonts/truetype/beteckna/ BetecknaLowerCaseItalicCondensed.ttf: BetecknaLowerCase:fullname=BetecknaLowerCase /usr/share/fonts/truetype/beteckna/BetecknaLowerCaseI

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

2010-07-27 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 27.07.2010 um 02:36 schrieb Ernest Adrogué: I don't know what's the point in having a version of URW Palladio without small-caps and another one with, all in the same LaTeX installation. The point is that TeX fonts can only have 128 code points. (Virtual fonts can have up to twice as muc

Re: [XeTeX] ** ERROR ** sfnt: Freetype failure...

2010-07-28 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 28.07.2010 um 04:41 schrieb tala...@fastmail.fm: ** ERROR ** sfnt: Freetype failure... This proprietary Classic Mac font format is not supported. By good reason: it neither exhibits features nor does it have tables useful for typesetting. -- Greetings Pete The human brain operat

Re: [XeTeX] Pipes in XeTeX

2010-07-28 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 28.07.2010 um 14:40 schrieb Florian Gilcher: Now, I would try my theory if i could just get XeTeX (or, more specifically, the bundled ICU) to build from sources on Snow Leopard... You could try to build a 32-bit binary... -- Mit friedvollen Grüßen Pete Der Unterschied zwischen The

Re: [XeTeX] pstricks and dvi output in xelatex

2010-07-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.07.2010 um 13:16 schrieb George: I have some diagrams which do not render correctly in xelatex. You should make public what does not work. Otherwise no improvements. -- Greetings Pete Specifications are for the weak and timid! --

Re: [XeTeX] pstricks and dvi output in xelatex

2010-07-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.07.2010 um 17:38 schrieb George: \begin{pspicture}(\textwidth, 10) \pnode(0.5,1.1){bottomInstructionLine} \pnode(0.5,8.5){topInstructionLine} \ncline{->}{topInstructionLine}{bottomInstructionLine} \ncput*[nrot=:D]{Instructions} \end{pspicture} This code

Re: [XeTeX] pstricks and dvi output in xelatex

2010-07-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.07.2010 um 21:43 schrieb George: However, I can't do that in xetex, and my question was whether it is possible. Did you check whether you have the working xdvipdfmx.cfg file? Is your TeX (Live 2009) distribution up-to-date? Are you able to test your code with (unfinished, testing)

Re: [XeTeX] pstricks and dvi output in xelatex

2010-07-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.07.2010 um 22:55 schrieb Alan Munn: The only difference I see is that the orientation of the pages is different. (Not sure what causes that). Are you using Skim? It somehow prefers to start in landscape... -- Greetings Pete The wise man said: "Never argue with an idiot. They bring

Re: [XeTeX] pstricks and dvi output in xelatex

2010-07-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 31.07.2010 um 00:02 schrieb Alan Munn: No, this isn't a viewer problem, I don't think. Then it might be Ghostscript, auto-rotating the picture that the text can be read horizontally as usual? Another cause could be the size of the picture: \begin{pspicture}(\textwidth, 10) 15

Re: [XeTeX] pstricks and dvi output in xelatex

2010-07-31 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 31.07.2010 um 03:31 schrieb George: Text placed on connection lines is misplaced. Could this help to understand PS Tricks? \begin{pspicture}(.25\textwidth, 10) \pnode(0.5,1.1){bottomInstructionLine} \pnode(0.5,8.5){topInstructionLine} \ncline[linecolor=red]{->}{t

Re: [XeTeX] pstricks and dvi output in xelatex

2010-07-31 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 31.07.2010 um 02:47 schrieb George: Did you check whether you have the working xdvipdfmx.cfg file? Is your TeX (Live 2009) distribution up-to-date? Are you able to test your code with (unfinished, testing) TeX Live 2010? How do I check that? Locate the file in your file system(s) (c

Re: [XeTeX] pstricks and dvi output in xelatex

2010-07-31 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 31.07.2010 um 23:47 schrieb Alan Munn: The issue is why do these drawings end up placing the text in a different position when compiled with xelatex compared to with latex- dvips-ps2df. Ah, I see it now! For a first start I'd recommend to extract the PS (Tricks) code from the DVI or X

Re: [XeTeX] bug in xltxtra?

2010-08-03 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 03.08.2010 um 09:56 schrieb Yves Codet: I think I found a bug in xltxtra Not necessarily... Adding into the preamble the nice little line \listfiles would show for the case fontspec vs. xltxtra that in TeX Live 2009 some more files can be suspected the culprit: *File List*

Re: [XeTeX] bug in xltxtra?

2010-08-03 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 03.08.2010 um 17:01 schrieb Ulrike Fischer: \usepackage{fontspec} %version v2.0b, loads fontspec-patches This explains the steady behaviour in preliminary TeX Live 2010, in TL '09 I'm using fontspec.sty2008/08/09 v1.18. And here the introduction of xltxtra changes the shape of the

Re: [XeTeX] Combined sub- and superscript

2010-08-07 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 07.08.2010 um 12:27 schrieb Sebastian Gerecke: \usepackage{fontspec} Does this work better: \usepackage{fontspec,xltxtra} -- Mit friedvollen Grüßen Pete Wer nichts zu verbergen hat, hat schon alles verloren. (Juli Zeh)

Re: [XeTeX] Combined sub- and superscript

2010-08-07 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 07.08.2010 um 13:49 schrieb Sebastian Gerecke: No, that does not help. And when you additionally use \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text} instead? -- Mit friedvollen Grüßen Pete Vielfalt im Regal statt Einfalt im Hirn! -

Re: [XeTeX] Combined sub- and superscript

2010-08-07 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 07.08.2010 um 20:55 schrieb Khaled Hosny: And when you additionally use \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text} instead? Sorry, but I fail to see how "Mapping=tex-text" would make any difference here. Does it help you when I cite the original line? \defaultfontfeatures{

Re: [XeTeX] Combined sub- and superscript

2010-08-07 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 07.08.2010 um 12:27 schrieb Sebastian Gerecke: the colored ^{14}_{6}C example in the middle I think with simply using the Linux Libertine O font you won't reproduce this, because mhchem is using \ensuremath, its documentation also mentions math mode. So just smaller sized glyphs from

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

2010-08-07 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 07.08.2010 um 22:44 schrieb Sebastian Gerecke: BUT: This just has to be an utter hack and I can not believe it is the way it is supposed to be done. This hack is necessary because mhchem is not aware of font features, it's a simple LaTeX package that maltreats simple TeX fonts in the

Re: [XeTeX] /Rotate 90 ignored in included pdfs

2010-08-13 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 13.08.2010 um 15:40 schrieb David Cottenden: Any thoughts, O collected wise ones? Examples. -- Greetings Pete <\ \__ O __O | O\ _\\/\-%_`\<, '()-'-(_)--(_) (_)/(_)

Re: [XeTeX] /Rotate 90 ignored in included pdfs

2010-08-14 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 13.08.2010 um 16:48 schrieb David Cottenden: - A simple \includegraphics statement with no rotation commands or anything; - Only pdfs generated by some sources give the result; most appear as intended; - When a "bad" pdf this is echoed to the terminal: ** WARNING ** << /Rotate 90 >>

Re: [XeTeX] /Rotate 90 ignored in included pdfs

2010-08-14 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 14.08.2010 um 11:31 schrieb David Cottenden: I took it that it related to an as-yet unimplemented part of the driver that graphicx invoked for xelatex... This is also my assumption. Could be that xdvipdfmx does not embed the included PDF into a /state> pair and therefore re-defines the

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

2010-08-17 Thread Peter Dyballa
Has Thunderbird a way to send a message to this list without usurping an existing thread? Some users on this list, including me, prefer to have to clean threads in their eMail applications, so we do not start a new thread by replying to an old message and erasing the original subject. Bec

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

2010-08-18 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 18.08.2010 um 13:31 schrieb Volker Haas: is it possible to use a single font for multiple scripts with fontspec without doing any font switching or altering font features? Yes, if it supports all characters. And you would have to "divide" this font into "sub-font" instances to be able

Re: [XeTeX] Converting from arabtex to arabxetex

2010-08-18 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 18.08.2010 um 14:55 schrieb Lomky: So my question is, how do I get xetex to understand I want the code page 6 input to become arabic output? If really all text is ISO 8859-6, i.e., the 7-bit codes are Latin and AC-F2 are Arabic, then just convert the file's contents from ISO 8859-6 t

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