Re: [XeTeX] textsuperscript and french issue

2010-08-18 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 18.08.2010 um 16:07 schrieb tegi...@bluewin.ch: \setmainfont{Adobe Garamond Pro} When you comment this line (that Latin Modern gets used), does it still fail to create the desired look? How does it work with the starred form, i.e., 2\textsuperscript*{ème}? Did you try 'texdoc xltxtr

Re: [XeTeX] \special(pdf:

2010-08-18 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 18.08.2010 um 18:07 schrieb Ron Aaron: How can I find out exactly what "pdf" specials are available in xetex? By reading what 'texdoc dvipdfm' shows. -- Greetings Pete Cabbage, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. -

Re: [XeTeX] Converting from arabtex to arabxetex

2010-08-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 18.08.2010 um 17:10 schrieb Lomky: Are there other ways to convert it to utf8? GNU Emacs, the recode utility, using a backup of the original unchanged file... -- Greetings Pete "Debugging? Klingons do not debug. Our software does not coddle the weak." ---

Re: [XeTeX] additional subsubparagraph in an Arabic text with polyglossia and tocloft

2010-08-27 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 27.08.2010 um 21:01 schrieb Jens Bakker: Also putting the command "sudo texhash" into the Terminal does not have any effect, the Terminal gives the answer "command not found". Try sudo /usr/texbin/texhash The hint to use /usr/texbin/ before the TeX related command's name has b

Re: [XeTeX] ghostscript version

2010-08-28 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 28.08.2010 um 21:13 schrieb Mike Maxwell: But what is this "command line template" the -D option wants? See here: /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf/dvipdfmx/dvipdfmx.cfg (or /usr/ local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/doc/latex/cjk/doc/pdfhowto/examples/ dvipdfmx.cfg)! -- Greetings Pete Rain i

Re: [XeTeX] Checking if a font exists

2010-08-29 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 29.08.2010 um 18:17 schrieb Alan Munn: Is there a way to check whether a font is present in a user's system? Font Book? Locate? Find? Lsbom? Ftxinstalledfonts? Fc-list or fc-match? Spottlight? -- Greetings Pete There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he do

Re: [XeTeX] Checking if a font exists

2010-08-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.08.2010 um 06:56 schrieb Wilfred van Rooijen: In fact, I have had to copy some of the Adobe fonts to my $HOME/.fonts to do some testing. You can edit the file fonts.conf (for example in /etc/fonts or /usr/ X11/lib/X11/fontconfig) or ~/.fonts.conf, your personal copy that fonts are

Re: [XeTeX] Change fonts for different environment/commands

2010-08-31 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 31.08.2010 um 11:31 schrieb Marcin Grotomirski: I want to set a different font for differnt environment. Re-write these environments. The fontspec documentation shows how to create a whole family of differently coloured fonts. -- Greetings Pete What is this talk of 'release?' Klin

Re: [XeTeX] Change fonts for different environment/commands

2010-09-01 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 01.09.2010 um 19:24 schrieb Marcin Grotomirski: \renewcommand{\footnote}{{\addfontfeature{Color=66}}} \footnote is no font specifier from the fontspec package, but a mighty command from the article CLS file. So \addfontfeature{} won't work on it. You'll have to re-write a lot of

Re: [XeTeX] Change fonts for different environment/commands

2010-09-01 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 01.09.2010 um 21:20 schrieb Marcin Grotomirski: How do you create xetex documents that don't look like classic LaTeX document. Strong imagination, good plan, some endurance – and no Computer or Latin Modern font. -- Greetings Pete War springs from unseen and generally insignifica

Re: [XeTeX] Change fonts for different environment/commands

2010-09-01 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 01.09.2010 um 22:28 schrieb Marcin Grotomirski: I am asking about technical side of this process. Reading? Programming a text and code or text only or code only generator? Using GNU Emacs? Studying some art before starting? -- Greetings Pete Sorry my terrible Eng

Re: [XeTeX] Invalid fontname

2010-09-05 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 05.09.2010 um 05:55 schrieb Mike Maxwell: I'm trying out some fonts for the Dhivehi language, which has a unique script. Thaana, U+0780-U+07BF, can also be found in Code2000, FreeSerif, TITUS Cyberbit. The cause is that your code is faulty: \newfontinstance\dhivehifontA{Mv Elaaf Nor

Re: [XeTeX] Inactive citation links with hyperref and natbib

2010-09-16 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 16.09.2010 um 10:50 schrieb Pierre Morel: What do you suggest for an elegant fix to this problem ? Bibliography in English? -- Greetings Pete (This space left blank for technical reasons.) -- Subscriptions, Archive, an

Re: [XeTeX] Inactive citation links with hyperref and natbib

2010-09-16 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 16.09.2010 um 11:22 schrieb Pierre Morel: The problems arise when I cite a paper in the French text, such as "french french french \citep{Author:year} french french french". I could surround each \citep command by \selectlanguage{english}... \selectlanguage{french}, but it's certainly no

Re: [XeTeX] PDF minor version

2010-09-16 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 16.09.2010 um 15:44 schrieb Heiko Oberdiek: * The only way I know is using "xetex -no-pdf", followed by "xdvipdfmx -V ". "xdvipdfmx --help" shows: This is more efficient: xetex -output-driver='xdvipdfmx -V ' The xdvipdfmx binaries in TL '09 and '10 pretest work fine... (even

Re: [XeTeX] Separate fonts for Latin and Greek with fontspec?

2010-09-16 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 16.09.2010 um 19:56 schrieb David Cottenden: Is it possible to set things up so that Greek appears in Minion and Latin (and everything else) appears in Garamond? See the XeTeX Companion here: http://xml.web.cern.ch/XML/lgc2/xetexmain.pdf . \XeTeXinterchartoks allows to "bind" a particul

Re: [XeTeX] PDF minor version

2010-09-16 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 16.09.2010 um 22:01 schrieb Heiko Oberdiek: I thought you could simply edit dvipdfmx.cfg? If I would have known it ;-) I couldn't find any docu about it. And this route is bug-free? -- Mit friedvollen Grüßen Pete We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found oursel

Re: [XeTeX] virtual keyboard question

2010-09-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.09.2010 um 13:39 schrieb Manfred Lotz: I tried it in TeXworks under Linux. For instance uktvaa in Devanagari which has a ligature in it connecting k, t and v shows up correctly in (out of the box) TeXworks. Both in gvim and emacs Devanagari will be shown but not correctly (at least in cas

Re: [XeTeX] virtual keyboard question

2010-09-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.09.2010 um 21:12 schrieb Manfred Lotz: texworks isn't a text processor either and it works in texworks. And how is the font you are using? Did you try the same font in GNU Emacs and gvim? What are the results? Which tables/features of the font get used? -- Mit friedvollen Grüßen

Re: [XeTeX] Extra trailing space in IPA font with xltxtra

2010-09-20 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 20.09.2010 um 16:42 schrieb Paolo Matteucci: I’ve updated my TexLive distribution today, and started noticing that, if you invoke the tipa package with xltxtra (and hence fontspec and xunicode) loaded, you get an extra trailing space just before the end of the \textipa environment. Y

Re: [XeTeX] If font under fontspec

2010-09-20 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 20.09.2010 um 20:44 schrieb Gareth Hughes: I'm asking for a more useful implementation that checks whether a certain font is in use now Wouldn't it be sufficient to check what \{rm,sf,tt}default are set to? -- Greetings Pete When in doubt, use brute force.

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-25 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 25.09.2010 um 18:44 schrieb Axel Kielhorn: Some weeks ago I suggested getting information about XeTeX into lshort. Well, here is the first draft. The correct Xe(La)TeX logos can be produced with metalogo or hologo (HO = Heiko Oberdiek) packages. The logos in xltxtra, in fontspec v. 2

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-26 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 26.09.2010 um 15:56 schrieb Axel Kielhorn: I have to disagree, Vim and emacs (or should that be Emacs?) are available on Windows as well. (Maybe not used that often.) It's actually GNU Emacs and XEmacs. There are also specialised variants, based on GNU Emacs, like NTEmacs, Carbon Emacs,

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-26 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 26.09.2010 um 15:56 schrieb Axel Kielhorn: GNU Emacs offers input methods. One of them, always available, is C- q , and the number can be octal, decimal, or hexadecimal. You just have to memorize the Unicodecode:-) You never were tortured by MS-DOS etc. with its Alt- to draw a frame

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-26 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 26.09.2010 um 19:33 schrieb Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd): Many of us also use WinEDT, though its lack of support for Unicode (even in its V6 guise, which some love and others hate) makes it unsuitable as an editor for most Xe[La]TeX use. Philip, have you tried to use TPU-edt mode ins

Re: [XeTeX] polyglossia overline on a number of lines (another attempt)

2010-09-27 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 27.09.2010 um 22:44 schrieb Talal Al-Azem: Could Khaled, Vafa, or anyone else perhaps inform me of what I need to do in order to get an overline over RTL text, when that text runs for more than a single line? If no proper solution comes up: split the text, in a final step, in as many

Re: [XeTeX] Problem changing default fonts

2010-09-27 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 27.09.2010 um 18:23 schrieb Andréa Loyer: I am unable to use bold change size of the text as I did before in the toc and section titles, use smallcaps and change colors... Update once more and hope that fontspec 2.1a will come! -- Greetings Pete A lot of people mistake a short memory

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-28 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 28.09.2010 um 16:20 schrieb Tobias Schoel: Can we now come back to the beginning problem: Which way of creating unicode-encoded .tex-documents to propose in lshort? Using GNU Emacs 23.x – the Unicode Emacs (and any of its variants) – with its AUCTeX extension. One can either set all TE

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-28 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 28.09.2010 um 22:44 schrieb Philipp Stephani: Am 28.09.2010 um 21:16 schrieb Peter Dyballa: Am 28.09.2010 um 16:20 schrieb Tobias Schoel: Can we now come back to the beginning problem: Which way of creating unicode-encoded .tex-documents to propose in lshort? Using GNU Emacs 23.x

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-28 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 29.09.2010 um 00:02 schrieb David J. Perry: Windoof user have to be hardened by ugly UI. What about "losedos"? I am (mostly) a Windows user but am neither stupid nor a loser. All OSs have their imperfections, people have different reasons for what they use, so let's stay on task he

Re: [XeTeX] unicode-math problem

2010-09-29 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 29.09.2010 um 13:38 schrieb António Fernandes: After updating unicode-math to the most recent version I'm experiencing an unwanted behavior which seems to be related with the keys "script-features" and "sscript-features". António, could you start to learn how to create a new thread? I

Re: [XeTeX] Monospace font, not being set in monospace

2010-09-29 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 29.09.2010 um 05:39 schrieb msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca: The two lines should be the same length, but they aren't. I'm only testing with the TeX Live 2010 pretest release and I can see that pdfLaTeX and LuaLaTeX produce correct output (two spaces) while XeLaTeX with fontspec v. 1 fails.

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-29 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 29.09.2010 um 23:40 schrieb Philipp Stephani: reality is approximately as follows: Users who read beginner documents such as lshort don't want to use TeX, but are forced to do so by their advisor. They don't want to read discussions about the pros and cons of various text editors or why

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.09.2010 um 00:42 schrieb Alan Munn: And I deal with a broad range of students at a major US research university. U.S. American students are not a gauge for Earth's youth. (Their number is also too small.) And indeed I more often interact with much younger people. -- Greetings

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-01 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 01.10.2010 um 15:55 schrieb Axel Kielhorn: Do you have a guide that explains how to turn a pdflatex document into a xelatex document? Something like this preamble? \documentclass[11pt,final]{article} \usepackage{ifpdf,ifxetex} \usepackage{graphicx} %[dvipdfmx] \usepackage[nger

Re: [XeTeX] Problem changing default fonts

2010-10-03 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 02.10.2010 um 17:02 schrieb Drébon: Now, I am just searching for a replacement police for helvet that support smallcaps (and to understand what was I intending to do with the problematic \renewcommand*\sfdefault{ugq}) This should not be too complicated... \ifxetex

Re: [XeTeX] Problem changing default fonts

2010-10-03 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 03.10.2010 um 11:23 schrieb Drébon: My current problem is that the Tex Gyre *** fonts have no small caps. I think the PUA (Private Use Area) has some small glyphs (for whatever use), even a lot accented ones. (Helvetica is a font without Small Caps. By definition/character/look/visual

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-05 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 05.10.2010 um 12:46 schrieb Dominik Wujastyk: This is completely wrong, and anachronistic. SGML was born long after TeX and LaTeX. You probably mean that ISO standard on SGML from 1986 (8879). There is none for any TeX dialect... William W. Tunnicliffe had the idea of SGML at least

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-10 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 10.10.2010 um 22:26 schrieb David Perry: he LaTeX command \fontsize{60}{66pt} does not work Did you add \selectfont? -- Greetings Pete What's the difference between OS X and Vista? Microsoft employees are excited about OS X… -- Sub

Re: [XeTeX] wrong kerning and slow processing with xelatex in texlive 2010

2010-10-10 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 10.10.2010 um 21:48 schrieb Vadim Radionov: What can be done to investigate and fix it? Instead of citing the whole old message it could have been interesting to see the different sources which lead to so different outputs... BTW, \listfiles can be a nice part of a preamble. It also

Re: [XeTeX] wrong kerning and slow processing with xelatex in texlive 2010

2010-10-10 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 11.10.2010 um 00:29 schrieb Vadim Radionov: \textsc{та} Do Cyrillic small capital letters exist? I would have thought they're typical Latin... -- Greetings Pete It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. ---

Re: [XeTeX] wrong kerning and slow processing with xelatex in texlive 2010

2010-10-10 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 11.10.2010 um 00:29 schrieb Vadim Radionov: I compiled the same source with 2 instances of xelatex, the one from texlive 2010 works not as i expected I don't have fontspec version 2.x around, but Will wrote that he changed many things, in xltxtra as well. Could you compare the definiti

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-11 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 11.10.2010 um 05:10 schrieb Alan Munn: Theoretically either argument could have any other kind of unit. Right! It works well with mm or a mixture of units. TeX points are a reliable fall-back default. -- Greetings Pete One cannot live by television, video games, top ten CDs, and du

Re: [XeTeX] wrong kerning and slow processing with xelatex in texlive 2010

2010-10-12 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 12.10.2010 um 14:08 schrieb Vadim Radionov: What could be the next step? You could run pdffonts on the PDF files and invoke xdvipdfmx with more verbosity/debug information. See 'xdvipdfmx --help'! Vadim PS. There's also strange difference in A4 paper size. I presume that each sin

Re: [XeTeX] Greek XeLaTeX

2010-10-12 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 12.10.2010 um 20:24 schrieb Khaled Hosny: So \قسم, \अनुभाग, \אָפּטיילונג are fine, too? Is this really correct? I thought it should read قسم/, अनुभाग/, אָפּטיילונג/... -- Greetings Pete (This space left blank for technical reasons.) -

Re: [XeTeX] wrong kerning and slow processing with xelatex in texlive 2010

2010-10-12 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 12.10.2010 um 14:30 schrieb Vadim Radionov: xdvipdfmx -vv for both cases Both logs look OK. You could avoid one annoyance, the use of cmr10, by adding \pagestyle{empty} or \thispagestyle{empty} that no page numbers or such are output. IMO it looks like some bug somewhere. This could be

Re: [XeTeX] Greek XeLaTeX

2010-10-13 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 12.10.2010 um 21:06 schrieb Steve Peter: Nagari (the middle one) is read left-to-right. Yes, I thought so, but I also thought it would be more funny when I showed my complete ignorance... -- Greetings Pete Isn't vi that text editor with two modes... one that beeps and one that co

Re: [XeTeX] wrong kerning and slow processing with xelatex in texlive 2010

2010-10-13 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 12.10.2010 um 21:09 schrieb Vadim Radionov: I did this and found nothing suspicious (logs attached), except for TEXMFHOME which points to 2 directories (I used to think that setting variable in texlive//texmf.cnf overrides texlive//texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf, but their values both are use

Re: [XeTeX] wrong kerning and slow processing with xelatex in texlive 2010

2010-10-13 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 13.10.2010 um 14:41 schrieb Vadim Radionov: It is stated in the second paragraph of texlive/2010/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf that any changes should be done in texlive/2010/texmf.cnf. The output of xetex with -kpathsea-debug=3 show in my case kdebug:hash_lookup(TEXMFHOME) => ~/texmf-texlive-2010

Re: [XeTeX] Localized XeLaTeX: was Greek XeLaTeX

2010-10-14 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 14.10.2010 um 12:39 schrieb Keith J. Schultz: This would be a good idea, but the original thought was also for using localized units and such. I don't think there are so many "localised" units at this size (presumingly they start around 25 mm and reach a few km [Russian

Re: [XeTeX] how to create and install xexmltex.fmt

2010-10-14 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 14.10.2010 um 13:48 schrieb William Adams: (but still need to understand where I put the resulting .fmt file and make it active) FMT file is in /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-var/web2c/xetex. Because XeTeX based. Best is to edit fmtutil.cnf (/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-var/web2c/ fm

Re: [XeTeX] Localized XeLaTeX: was Greek XeLaTeX

2010-10-14 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 14.10.2010 um 12:39 schrieb Keith J. Schultz: the original thought was also for using localized units and such. Thinking of this again, ex and em cannot be translated into Greek! Who would now how wide a Latin x or m can span? And using ηξ and ημ instead would make much difference beca

Re: [XeTeX] Microtype Question: \DeclareMicrotypeAlias

2010-10-14 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 14.10.2010 um 13:01 schrieb Marc van Dongen: Any suggestions for solutions would be more than welcome. Is your version of XeTeX HZ-enabled? If it is, you can achieve even character protrusion – without the microtype package. It's specific for pdfTeX. See also here: http://xetex.tk/me

Re: [XeTeX] what happened to etoolbox.sty?

2010-10-16 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 17.10.2010 um 00:11 schrieb Roland Kuhn: What's up? In the TL '10 test distribution it was contained... -- Mit friedvollen Grüßen Pete Seelsorge statt Krankenkasse: das ist neu und liberal, die wähl' ich! -- Subscriptions, Archive, a

Re: [XeTeX] Strange hyphenation with polyglossia in French

2010-10-17 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 17.10.2010 um 10:09 schrieb Roland Kuhn: BTW: does anyone know a “terminal” which can use proportional fonts? That would be a nice compromise between Turing-complete language and intra-paragraph-WYSIWYG (I’m sorry to say that I’m basically married to vim). Xterm, uxterm, ... -- Mit

Re: [XeTeX] Strange hyphenation with polyglossia in French

2010-10-17 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 17.10.2010 um 11:22 schrieb Roland Kuhn: Well, konsole can do that, too, but all of them (AFAIK) put each nice and variable-width glyph at their assumed monospace location, which is the worst possible solution to my mind (and eyes). GNU Emacs has an ANSI compliant terminal emulation. Mo

Re: [XeTeX] Strange hyphenation with polyglossia in French

2010-10-17 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 17.10.2010 um 23:34 schrieb Arthur Reutenauer: But the overwhelming majority of users still type in the ASCII quote sign and this situation has to be taken in account They're presumingly pdfTeX users. With LuaTeX and XeTeX, and that's probably the target of UTF-8 based hyphenation files

Re: [XeTeX] Setting greek letters in cmtt with XeTeX on OS X

2010-10-18 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 18.10.2010 um 15:53 schrieb Apostolos Syropoulos: Use http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/umtypewriter/ Instead of the real (old) Computer Modern fonts it's also possible to use Latin Modern, its successor. Another option is to use the TeX Gyre fonts (Curso is Courier), which at lea

Re: [XeTeX] Strange hyphenation with polyglossia in French

2010-10-21 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 21.10.2010 um 17:45 schrieb Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd): A document written in code page X could not be differentiated from a document written in code page Y as far as I know, whereas in my putative "Omni-code [tm]" the code page would be implicit in the encoding of each character. T

Re: [XeTeX] how to create and install xexmltex.fmt

2010-10-21 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 21.10.2010 um 19:20 schrieb William Adams: Is there something else I should try? Look here? /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latexconfig/ xelatex.ini -- Mit friedvollen Grüßen Pete Well begun is half done. – Optimist. Half done is well begun.

Re: [XeTeX] arabic

2010-10-23 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 23.10.2010 um 06:22 schrieb Kamal Abdali: I would like to try persian.xdy, but can't find it. On my updated TeXLIve2010/MacTeX, it is neither in xepersian files nor in xindy files. In Tex Live 2008 and 2009 the file existed: /usr/local/texlive/200[89]/ texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/xepersian

Re: [XeTeX] Beginner questions

2010-10-23 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 23.10.2010 um 10:53 schrieb André Bellaïche: 1. Is it possible to replace unicode by applemac encoding? What are the commands in this case? If you want to continue typing in applemac input encoding you better stay with the much more developed pdfTeX. All packages work with pdfTeX, an

Re: [XeTeX] Beginner questions

2010-10-23 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 23.10.2010 um 11:46 schrieb André Bellaïche: Yes, but it does not seem that the Postscript name is the one you type in the command \setromanfont. The family name should be OK since it does not restrict the font to one variant (roman, italic, bold, a mixture). Look into Font Book (Livr

Re: [XeTeX] Beginner questions

2010-10-23 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 23.10.2010 um 18:14 schrieb Ulrike Fischer: So why not tell them that there is a choice? Because you need to record each file's particular encoding in order to share its contents with other users – or editors/TeX front-ends/TeX engines. -- Mit friedvollen Grüßen Pete There's no

Re: [XeTeX] Beginner questions

2010-10-23 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 23.10.2010 um 17:30 schrieb Ulrike Fischer: Am Sat, 23 Oct 2010 11:27:46 +0200 schrieb Peter Dyballa: 1. Is it possible to replace unicode by applemac encoding? What are the commands in this case? If you want to continue typing in applemac input encoding you better stay with the much

Re: [XeTeX] Font Warning Font shape Vollkorn it undefined

2010-10-25 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 25.10.2010 um 13:13 schrieb Pander: Regular, bold, italic and bold italic offered by the 4 Vollkorn OTF files do work in OpenOffice 3.2.1. Fc-cat lists a TrueType font file... The fontspec documentation describes how to set up a "font family" from individual files or variants. Maybe it

Re: [XeTeX] corrupted TeX file

2010-10-25 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 25.10.2010 um 13:06 schrieb Vafa Khalighi: Is there a way to recover this tex file? I know only one useful algorithm for these more than 128 K ASCII NUL characters: convert them all to one. Or none. Which is better. Because then no backup programme would try to save this useless and e

Re: [XeTeX] Font Warning Font shape Vollkorn it undefined

2010-10-25 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 25.10.2010 um 17:17 schrieb Pander: Fc-cat lists a TrueType font file... Get the newer OTF files from the link in the initial post. Honestly, me, I don't want these files. But maybe you want to clean your system from having more than one version of the font. The fontspec documenta

Re: [XeTeX] Font Warning Font shape Vollkorn it undefined

2010-10-26 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 26.10.2010 um 16:19 schrieb Pander: Now that this is reproducable on both Linux and OSX, what is the next step to take to solve this? Ask the fonts creator. Ask an independent fonts expert. Try to "repair" it in FontForge and save it with modified font names. Then include the set in

Re: [XeTeX] ERROR Invalid glyph index (gid 2448)

2010-10-26 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 26.10.2010 um 16:22 schrieb Pander: Is it possible to have more information printed to command line and log file for where this error originates? Invoke xdvipdfmx with -v or -vv or -vvv or ... or invoke xelatex as "xelatex -output-driver='xdvipdfmx -vv'" etc. You could also invest a

Re: [XeTeX] ERROR Invalid glyph index (gid 2448)

2010-10-26 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 26.10.2010 um 18:57 schrieb Pander: It would be nice to also print the name of the font so the searching is easier. You can always construct a minimal example with not more than one font used (well, I do can). And you can always ask XeTeX to trace the fonts it uses. And you can also

Re: [XeTeX] huge front of non latin

2010-10-27 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 27.10.2010 um 01:27 schrieb houda araj: When I put HUGE in front of \HUGE{این اولین نمایه این متن است که برای امتحان آورده شده است} . xelatex does not recognize it. Since \HUGE is defined only rarely you can use NFSS2 (New Font Selection Scheme) to set a font's size: \fontsi

Re: [XeTeX] Beginner questions

2010-10-29 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 29.10.2010 um 18:30 schrieb André Bellaïche: Is this normal? Yes. With %%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode you tell TeXShop how the file's encoding is. The preference you set is just a default for *new* files or for old files *without* that encoding declaration. This declaration

Re: [XeTeX] Beginner questions

2010-10-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 29.10.2010 um 23:51 schrieb André Bellaïche: I have looked into changebar.sty, and it does not seems to be easy to replace the Postscript commands by a simple command drawing an hrule or a vrule. André, if you need to compare two XeLaTeX files, then you don't need the fancy XeLaTeX

Re: [XeTeX] Beginner questions

2010-10-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.10.2010 um 12:38 schrieb André Bellaïche: I have also find a `frutiger' package for LaTeX: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/truetypemetrics/frutiger/ Get the archive and unzip it for example somewhere in /tmp. Change directory (cd, pushd) on the command line into that directory.

Re: [XeTeX] Beginner questions

2010-10-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.10.2010 um 17:42 schrieb Peter Dyballa: Get the archive and unzip it for example somewhere in /tmp. Actually I think it's much easier to save the archive somewhere, say, in the download folder or in /tmp, and then to cd to /usr/local/ texlive/texmf-local. There, on the command

Re: [XeTeX] Several apostrophe-related problems (kerning, mapping)

2010-10-31 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 31.10.2010 um 19:14 schrieb Pierre Morel: And this only for the font for which margin kerning is activated. Try another font! Maybe your font has a substitution table active. For a try you could use Latin Modern. Another option is to invoke xelatex like this: xelatex -output-

Re: [XeTeX] Several apostrophe-related problems (kerning, mapping)

2010-11-01 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 01.11.2010 um 10:46 schrieb Pierre Morel: Package hyperref Warning: Token not allowed in a PDF string (Unicode): Could be it helps to load hyperref with the unicode option... -- Greetings Pete Well done is better than well said. – Benjamin Franklin

Re: [XeTeX] \textsuperscript and \textsubscript size

2010-11-06 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 06.11.2010 um 20:08 schrieb BPJ: Is it an optical illusion, or is the size of \textsuperscript and \textsubscript rather like \tiny than like \scriptsize? Sometimes is neither this nor that but a decision of the font designer – some fonts have subscript and superscript glyphs! -- Gree

Re: [XeTeX] Specifying papersize with XeTeX

2010-11-10 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 10.11.2010 um 13:10 schrieb John Was: --papersize=a5 I wouldn't use this command line option. I'd use a \special{papersize=...} which also records these dimensions in the XDV output file, helping xdvipdfmx to choose the proper paper format. -- Greetings Pete No project was ever c

Re: [XeTeX] Letterly template broken

2010-11-10 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 10.11.2010 um 15:45 schrieb Kai Hendry: No file letter.aux. [1 ! I can't write on file `letter.pdf'. (Press Enter to retry, or Control-D to exit; default file extension is `.pdf') Please type another file name for output: ! Emergency stop. \endgroup \...@typeset@protect

Re: [XeTeX] Letterly template broken

2010-11-10 Thread Peter Dyballa
It looks OK... no further guess yet! Maybe the webconverger runs on its platform, the host, with its identity while on the other systems it is *your* guest with *your* permissions... -- Greetings Pete If it does exist, it's out of date. – Arnold's Second

Re: [XeTeX] Specifying papersize with XeTeX

2010-11-10 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 11.11.2010 um 00:25 schrieb Wilfred van Rooijen: Although I may not really understand the question, if you take a look at the manual of the memoir class, it is precisely explained how (La)TeX treats the page size. Also, the geometry package lets you select any page size you want. Wil

Re: [XeTeX] Letterly template broken

2010-11-10 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 10.11.2010 um 22:33 schrieb Ross Moore: On 11/11/2010, at 3:10 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote: It looks OK... no further guess yet! Maybe the webconverger runs on its platform, the host, with its identity while on the other systems it is *your* guest with *your* permissions... Yes, that

Re: [XeTeX] Letterly template broken

2010-11-11 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 11.11.2010 um 12:53 schrieb Kai Hendry: I've spent hours debugging it. Did you ever compare the two LOG files, that from the client with that from the server? -- Greetings Pete <\ _\ O _ |o \ _\\_/-\=' _(_)|-(_) (_)__

Re: [XeTeX] Font variant selection in Fontspec/Mathspec options incomplete

2010-11-11 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 11.11.2010 um 11:24 schrieb Christian Schmidt: I don't know how to use the \listfiles command Just put it into the preamble, just like setting the page style to empty, or defining some new macro or command. -- Mit friedvollen Grüßen Pete There are two major products that come out o

Re: [XeTeX] Error with Delicious font

2010-11-18 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 17.11.2010 um 21:19 schrieb Pander: XeLaTeX has a problem with Delicious font This cannot be true, because there are two of them: Mac (Type1) and PC (OpenType). Which one did you download? And how did you install it? -- Greetings Pete The future will be much better tomorrow.

Re: [XeTeX] Error with Delicious font

2010-11-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.11.2010 um 01:39 schrieb Pander: I simply put them somewhere fontconfig is finding them. This is not sufficient. You need to update fontconfig's caches. The command is: fc-cache. LuaTeX has its own font mechanisms and automatisms, which might explain your observations. -- Greetin

Re: [XeTeX] Error with Delicious font

2010-11-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 17.11.2010 um 21:19 schrieb Pander: XeLaTeX has a problem with Delicious font Which I can easily share! The Small Caps variant has these glyphs where usually the standard glyphs are! Quite unconventional... These fonts contain just 220 glyphs. They're too problematic to keep them – I

Re: [XeTeX] Error with Delicious font

2010-11-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 17.11.2010 um 21:19 schrieb Pander: XeLaTeX has a problem with Delicious font Just as Herb I can't reproduce your problem. Maybe I was doing things incorrectly, since I first installed the the traditional font variants and added then the heavy and small caps variants, the only thing I

Re: [XeTeX] ligatures in (plain) XeTeX

2010-11-20 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 20.11.2010 um 12:07 schrieb Jean-Claude Raoult: I am not fond of diving into metafont. John already mentioned that some automatic ligatures are activated by using the tex-text mapping when loading the font. The fonts XeTeX uses are better not METAFONT based! These simple fonts have no

Re: [XeTeX] ligatures in (plain) XeTeX

2010-11-20 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 20.11.2010 um 12:07 schrieb Jean-Claude Raoult: and what about st and ct In case they exist in some fonts you could make them available when loading any of these fonts with special options. Here are some: +smcp = small caps +liga = common ligatures (on by default for L

Re: [XeTeX] Anomalies in using feature-enabled OT fonts

2010-11-20 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 20.11.2010 um 16:35 schrieb Takayuki YATO (ZR): I understand your explanation and admit it's logical. But from the grammar of XeTeX I have the impression that XeTeX treats a font with some feature enabled as different from the original font; that is, there are two distinct fonts \tgpNorm and

Re: [XeTeX] Build error on Linux / Fedora 14

2010-11-20 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 20.11.2010 um 23:29 schrieb Petr Tomasek: Is there anything that can be done? Define these variable types in some C header file! You can look into Fedora 14's installed C header files and check whether such type names are used there. "char16_t" obviously is a 16 bit signed "wide" cha

Re: [XeTeX] Arrows with Text

2010-11-21 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 20.11.2010 um 22:24 schrieb A u: now I have a question can I change the thickness of line that gets created using \xrightarrow{} Use a completely different font, use an artificially emboldened font. -- Mit friedvollen Grüßen Pete Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.

Re: [XeTeX] Question about polyglossia and babel

2010-11-22 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 22.11.2010 um 15:40 schrieb Alexander: After upgrade to TL 2010 these commands not work. I see in my console log: (/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/polyglossia/gloss- russian.ldf Package polyglossia Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for `Russian' (

Re: [XeTeX] Build error on Linux / Fedora 14

2010-11-22 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 22.11.2010 um 17:33 schrieb Petr Tomasek: I'll see when I'll have time to dig more deeply in Maybe it's best to start with the configure step. You have it's output in one window and in other windows you can examine the configure shell scripts and their LOG files. Commonly configure sh

Re: [XeTeX] Build error on Linux / Fedora 14

2010-11-22 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 22.11.2010 um 18:19 schrieb Petr Tomasek: Even though there is a libicu available on both F12 and F14 I would bet XeTeX uses it's own ICU copy. (It did compile one at least. And on the F14 the libicu-devel package was not installed first, but even if I installed it, nothing changed with the

Re: [XeTeX] Question about polyglossia and babel

2010-11-23 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 23.11.2010 um 04:32 schrieb Vladimir Lomov: P.S. Something wrong with your TL setup because here I could compile the file without such messages. May be you switch off support for some languages? Yes, that's true! I did not think of this and assumed a failure in polyglossia... -- Greet

Re: [XeTeX] microtype and SVN checkout problem

2010-11-24 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 24.11.2010 um 10:23 schrieb Ulrike Fischer: Perhaps you should at first try simply to update the microtype package to the beta version: http://xetex.tk/mediawiki/index.php/Microtype_package_(preliminary_version) Exactly this is necessary to become able to use micro-typography with XeTeX

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