Re: [XeTeX] xdvipdfmx fails on synthetically-slanted fonts

2010-11-24 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 24.11.2010 um 23:59 schrieb Takayuki YATO (ZR): Strangely enough, when I typeset the same document by usual one-step way, it is converted without error. Why is there such difference? I don't know why, but remember: TeX Live comes with two Inconsolata fonts, a PostScript Type 1–not reall

Re: [XeTeX] xdvipdfmx fails on synthetically-slanted fonts

2010-11-24 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 24.11.2010 um 23:59 schrieb Takayuki YATO (ZR): Strangely enough, when I typeset the same document by usual one-step way, it is converted without error. Why is there such difference? Still no explanation... but: I used DTrace to dtruss xdvipdfmx' behaviour. It obviously finds the font f

Re: [XeTeX] Diacritic characters wrongly positioned

2010-11-25 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 25.11.2010 um 18:28 schrieb Raphael Haase: I have an issue with diacritic characters and possibly XeTeX: Which font are you using? How is it with another font? Where is the source of a minimal example? -- Mit friedvollen Grüßen Pete Stau ist nur hinten blöd, vorne geht's! --

Re: [XeTeX] PDF/X-1a preflight & \special

2010-11-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.11.2010 um 21:51 schrieb Juan Acevedo: --Trimbox \usepackage{atbegshi} \AtBeginShipout{\special{pdf: put @thispage <>}} \pagestyle{empty} \special{pdf: put @thispage <>} \begin{document} --Date Use hyperref (and read its docu

Re: [XeTeX] [luatex] [Tex-nl] Some ligatures Romande ADF Style Std not shown

2010-12-04 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 04.12.2010 um 16:47 schrieb Pander: It's not visible in the OT font with FontForge. -- Greetings Pete You can never know too little of what is not worth knowing at all. – Anon. -- Subscript

Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures no tproberly rendered in Gillius ADF Condensed

2010-12-04 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 04.12.2010 um 17:40 schrieb Joachim Trinkwitz: Because you use a certain tool, it is more correct than other people's? Isn't this a rather silly statement? Well, if you think Linotypes font manager is lying on me, then you know better, I suppose ... (even the fact that several tools sho

Re: [XeTeX] What kind of effect is that?

2010-12-09 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 09.12.2010 um 22:46 schrieb Vadim Radionov: Why can it happen? Because different printer drivers are used? (The admin can stop a printer's queue to, for example, examine what's in there before it's sent to the printer.) Because this or that software converts the PDF to PS? Which the

Re: [XeTeX] What kind of effect is that?

2010-12-09 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 09.12.2010 um 23:40 schrieb Herbert Schulz: Adobe Acrobat/Reader also have a tendency to change the scale of a page to ``fit'' by default. This usually happens equally for each bit, including characters, of the document/image... -- Greetings Pete Every instructor assumes that you

Re: [XeTeX] installing mac font on linux

2010-12-11 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 11.12.2010 um 21:32 schrieb Tim Arnold: "/home/miller/.fonts/ulhi8a". It's apparently a PostScript font... -- Greetings Pete Theory and practice are the same, in theory, but, in practice, they are different. -- Subscriptions, Arc

Re: [XeTeX] installing mac font on linux

2010-12-12 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 12.12.2010 um 00:21 schrieb Tim Arnold: I suppose there's no way to convert to TrueType? There is: FontForge. (Usually your commercial font license does not allow this...) There are free handwriting fonts on the internet, it's also possible that Lucida Handwriting exists in True- or

Re: [XeTeX] installing mac font on linux

2010-12-12 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 12.12.2010 um 18:56 schrieb Tim Arnold: I open the font in fontbook and export the font; tar/gzip the resulting directory and transfer to linux. Maybe fontbook's export converts it from a xelatex-readable format to one thats not. Do you mean with "fontbook" Apple's Font Book applicatio

Re: [XeTeX] installing mac font on linux

2010-12-13 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 13.12.2010 um 17:55 schrieb Joachim Trinkwitz: On my MacBook, Lucida Handwriting is located in /Library/Fonts/ Microsoft, so it's supposedly provided through some MS application installation. Indeed the font file is 0 bytes, because all the font data is located in the so called data fork

Re: [XeTeX] Polyglossia beamer arabic

2010-12-13 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 13.12.2010 um 18:27 schrieb Anas Ghrab: The current roman font does not contain the Arabic script! Please define \arabicfont with \newfontfamily. Are you using a sans-serif font? (This is typically beamer.) Or a typewriter (monospaced) font? Then you would need to use \arabicf

Re: [XeTeX] pdf_link_obj(): passed invalid object.

2010-12-21 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 20.12.2010 um 18:33 schrieb Jérôme Etévé: I use xetex (xelatex) to generate document that can include other pdf files (using the package pdfpages) and when I include some documents, the rendering of my latex file crashes with an error like that: At least *my* copy of the pdfpages documenta

Re: [XeTeX] Xelatex+Tamil+English

2010-12-21 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 21.12.2010 um 07:21 schrieb Sengottuvel: In that Tamil document some of the words are English in that words are comes boxes The boxes signify missing characters. It's reasonable to assume that Tamil fonts support only a basic set of Latin characters. So you better use different fonts

Re: [XeTeX] Getting vinculum in fractions with Asana Math and unicode-math when compiled with xelatex

2010-12-24 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 24.12.2010 um 12:36 schrieb R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar: I am unable to get the horizontal bar or vinculum for the fraction on the left when I compile the file with xelatex, although I can get it when compiled with lualatex. I can't reproduce it with the same software (versions) on Mac O

Re: [XeTeX] Getting vinculum in fractions with Asana Math and unicode-math when compiled with xelatex

2010-12-24 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 24.12.2010 um 18:27 schrieb R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar: 10c10 < l3tl.sty2010/11/17 v2084 L3 Experimental Token Lists --- > l3tl.sty2010/12/18 v2103 L3 Experimental Token Lists 28c28 < l3fp.sty2010/11/25 v2092 L3 Experimental floating-point operations --- > l3fp.

Re: [XeTeX] Building TECkit

2010-12-27 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 27.12.2010 um 20:30 schrieb Dominik Wujastyk: Any suggestions? I've made TECkit successfully in the past (a year ago?). Sprintf is a basic function. Maybe its declaration is guarded by something in its header file. To find out which header files are used you can modify the compilati

Re: [XeTeX] linux libertine and number

2010-12-28 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 28.12.2010 um 11:06 schrieb François Patte: Is it possible to correct this? Yes: set up the maths font used for $7$ accordingly. (In TeX text and maths fonts are different.) Some like the difference of shape between a text 7 and and a maths 7. If you are not among them, then simply

Re: [XeTeX] linux libertine and number

2010-12-28 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 28.12.2010 um 19:44 schrieb François Patte: Multiply 5 by 7: $7\times 5 = 35$ With XeTeX and fontspec loaded you also load xunicode. So you can write as well: Multiply 5 by 7: 7 \texttimes{} 5 = 35 Multiply 5 by 7: 7 × 5 = 35 I see another problem here: Is 5 m

Re: [XeTeX] linux libertine and number

2010-12-29 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 29.12.2010 um 10:14 schrieb François Patte: I was wondering if there would be some fonts feature like: [Numbers=OldStyle], one could imagine: [Numbers=MathNumbers] "MathNumbers" can be found in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP) at U+1D400...1D7FF. -- Greetings Pete Eterni

Re: [XeTeX] xetex is using an .ttf.ignore-font

2010-12-29 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 29.12.2010 um 14:56 schrieb Ulrike Fischer: Only if fontconfig doesn't search in that directory. In miktex fontconfig (which is a miktex specific fontconfig) searches fonts/type1, fonts/truetype and fonts/opentype in all texmf-trees. When MiKTeX's fontconfig works like that in UNIX than

Re: [XeTeX] Page Number Font Issue

2011-01-06 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 06.01.2011 um 19:57 schrieb William Voelker: could it be that I'm making a mistake by using \setromanfont in the \memo command, and should instead use another command? Yes. The \set*font commands can only be used once. \setromanfont[Ligatures=Common]{Bergamo Std} \renewcommand\textit{\

Re: [XeTeX] supplying missing glyphs?

2011-01-08 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 08.01.2011 um 02:30 schrieb Dave Howell: What does "\XeTeXinterchartoks" do, exactly, and is it a better tool for this than making every 'special' character require executing my "invokeglyph" macro? Yes. It allows to set a particular font (family) to serve for a particular range of c

Re: [XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro & XeTex

2011-01-09 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 09.01.2011 um 23:07 schrieb Alessandro Ceschini: \setmainfont{Minion Pro} Have you tried [Script=Cyrillic], [Language=Serbian], combined? (texdoc fontspec) -- Greetings Pete If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. – George W. Bush --

Re: [XeTeX] Custom page size

2011-01-11 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 11.01.2011 um 11:52 schrieb Sven Siegmund: What am I doing wrong in this minimal example? You are not using the geometry package! That's the cause. Using geometry the information about size and orientation is propagated over all stages, into all particles. -- Mit friedvollen Grüßen

Re: [XeTeX] csquotes, polyglossia and biblatex

2011-01-13 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 13.01.2011 um 12:28 schrieb Yves Codet: I'm working on a bibliography using "biblatex" and "polyglossia". As can be seen on the attached PDF (for instance on the first line), the space after a French opening quote is too large, but it's correct before a closing one. Could also work o

Re: [XeTeX] alternate text for line-breaking

2011-01-13 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 13.01.2011 um 19:32 schrieb Bogdan Butnaru: I’d like that to use for a (rather large) document that needs to be adapted (and look good) for several different page sizes. Better get the preliminary version of microtype for XeTeX! XeTeX in TeX Live 2010 is able to perform micro-typography

Re: [XeTeX] supplying missing glyphs?

2011-01-14 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 13.01.2011 um 21:39 schrieb Dave Howell: I'm afraid I don't know what "available with texdoc" means. It meant to run on the command line texdoc XeTeX-reference In TeX Live 2007 it will fail. After installation of TeX Live 2010 or MacTeX 2010 you need to update the installati

Re: [XeTeX] problem with small caps

2011-01-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.01.2011 um 17:30 schrieb Herbert Schulz: \setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Linux Libertine} "Linux Libertine O" is a better choice. It's the OTF version. -- Greetings Pete One cannot live by television, video games, top ten CDs, and dumb movies alone.

Re: [XeTeX] problem with small caps

2011-01-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.01.2011 um 18:58 schrieb Khaled Hosny: Better in what sense? It's OpenType and complete and not PostScript Type 1 and split into a handful of font files, ready for use in "plain old" LaTeX. Could be that's the actual cause for what Adam sees – normal glyphs from a PS font file wit

Re: [XeTeX] problem with small caps

2011-01-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.01.2011 um 21:13 schrieb Khaled Hosny: I thought the font without 'O' was an OpenType font with TrueType outlines, not a Type1 font. Could be! The problem is that TeX Live comes also with the PFB files. The one sort is in /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/ public/lib

Re: [XeTeX] problem with small caps

2011-01-20 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 20.01.2011 um 01:59 schrieb David J. Perry: XeLaTeX will fail when using the non-O fonts. This is not my experience (see above). I use MiKTeX, not TeXlive, so have no idea about other versions that come with the latter. But: isn't XeTeX able to use any font that is installed in the

Re: [XeTeX] Microtype and XeTeX on Linux

2011-01-21 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 21.01.2011 um 19:01 schrieb Chris Wilson: Where can I find the most up to date version of XeTeX for Linux? In TeX Live 2010. Or on xetex.tk, is source form. -- Greetings Pete Sending unsolicited commercial eMail to this account incurs a fee of € 500 per message and acknowledges the

Re: [XeTeX] How can I use IEEEtran class with XeLaTeX?

2011-01-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.01.2011 um 21:56 schrieb Maxim Cournoyer: But this fails ... because of this message in the LOG window: Document Class: IEEEtran 2007/03/05 V1.7a by Michael Shell -- See the "IEEEtran_HOWTO" manual for usage information. -- http://www.michaelshell.org/tex/ieeet

Re: [XeTeX] Unaligned combining diacritic

2011-02-02 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 02.02.2011 um 15:13 schrieb Pander: Is this a font issue, fontspec issue or (Xe)TeX issue? Certainly! When the same algorithm produces with different input fonts so different output results, then it's likely the fault of the fonts. (Just because the members of a font family share one

Re: [XeTeX] substitutions for missing or wrong glyphs

2011-02-02 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 02.02.2011 um 10:40 schrieb Susan Dittmar: Is there a way, other than hacking the font file itself, to tell xetex to take those glyphs from another font? Yes. Make these characters active and bind them to some font(s). Examples where given on this list during the last few months. --

Re: [XeTeX] Velthuis to Roman translit

2011-02-04 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 03.02.2011 um 18:58 schrieb Neal Delmonico: What is involved in writing a XeTeX TEC file? In the TECkit sources you can find the documentation and also samples. (I have them and can send you copies on private notice.) -- Greetings Pete "Klingon function calls do not have 'paramete

Re: [XeTeX] problem rendering unicode Devanagari dependent vowel signs and ligatures

2011-02-04 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 04.02.2011 um 03:45 schrieb Richard Cobbe: To me, it looks like the effects of Script=Devanagari are at least partly font-dependent. Exactly! Adding this option activates the font's particular support for this script. See the fontspec manual! -- Greetings Pete The most exciting

Re: [XeTeX] Velthuis to Roman translit

2011-02-04 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 04.02.2011 um 14:39 schrieb Neal Delmonico: There's the problem. I apparently don't have RomDev.map and tec installed. Doesn't it come with TeXLive? No. If not, how do I get it? From the internet (via Google). The term somadeva is connected to it. Last autumn (in December?) it w

Re: [XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro & XeTex

2011-02-05 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 05.02.2011 um 23:36 schrieb Adam Twardoch (List): On 11-02-05 23:25, Alessandro Ceschini wrote: OK, I got it know. Can you suggest me any workaround? This bug is very annoying since the combination occurs frequently. I think you could search/replace for the combination and insert an addi

Re: [XeTeX] enlarged characters

2011-02-05 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 05.02.2011 um 21:59 schrieb Andrea de Leeuw van Weenen: I need to call the font I am using at larger scales. How do I do that? {\fontsize{30}{12}\selectfont bigger} -- Greetings Pete It's not the valleys in life I dread so much as the dips. – Garfield

Re: [XeTeX] polyglossia + russian + texttt + Courier New error

2011-02-06 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 06.02.2011 um 08:30 schrieb Igor Kotelnikov: The current roman font does not contain the Cyrillic script! TeX Live 2010 comes with a few monospaced fonts which support Cyrillic. First choice: the TeX Gyre fonts. The Cursor font is clone of Courier. The other good choice: Latin Modern

Re: [XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro & XeTex

2011-02-06 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 06.02.2011 um 12:55 schrieb Alessandro Ceschini: Looking on FontForge the kerning set by designers for the combination of glyphs uni0423+uni0431.ital is -53. Previously Peter reported a kerning value of -183. However, I don't know if the units of measurement were the same, though. It was

Re: [XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro & XeTex

2011-02-06 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 06.02.2011 um 14:02 schrieb Alessandro Ceschini: -2ex is OK, it looks remarkably like the output FontForge proposes. You probably mean -0.2ex. 2ex is twice the width of an x. This would make the two characters change positions and sequence... Now, back to the "kerning=mykerns", I heard

Re: [XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro & XeTex

2011-02-06 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 06.02.2011 um 15:44 schrieb Herbert Schulz: Hmmm... I thought 1ex was the height of an `x', not it's width, which makes measuring a width using ex's is kind of strange. A dimension or length is a dimension or length. Do you give the size of a box in ex \times em? Is a height inch short

Re: [XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro & XeTex

2011-02-06 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 06.02.2011 um 20:43 schrieb Alessandro Ceschini: Now, what about the "kerning=mykerns" option that would allow me to set a standard paradigm for this combination without having to look for & add relevant instructions ad infinitum? It's simple: improve XeTeX's code! Add some functions a

Re: [XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro & XeTex

2011-02-06 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 07.02.2011 um 01:21 schrieb Andrew Moschou: The size of an ex as compared to the em varies from font to font, so I don't like using this unit. I chose to use it that the kerning varies with the varying font size. Anyway, lower case x are mostly as high as wide. (More perfect than o

Re: [XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro & XeTex

2011-02-07 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 07.02.2011 um 16:17 schrieb Khaled Hosny: -- Khaled Hosny Egyptian Uhhh... What do you want us to – pity you, send you congratulations, welcome you in the small so-called democratic world, which knows how to handle the whip as well, with hundreds or thousands of want-be Mubaraks?

Re: [XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro & XeTex

2011-02-07 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 07.02.2011 um 17:50 schrieb Khaled Hosny: Huh? Formerly you outroduced yourself as "Arabic localiser", now you seem to have a different job... -- Greetings Pete The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for « entrepreneur ». – Ge

Re: [XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro & XeTex

2011-02-07 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 07.02.2011 um 18:16 schrieb Khaled Hosny: I'm rather jobless Sounds Egyptian... -- Greetings Pete Rain is saved up in cloud banks. -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro & XeTex

2011-02-07 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 07.02.2011 um 19:48 schrieb Paul Isambert: Le 07/02/2011 19:10, Peter Dyballa a écrit : Am 07.02.2011 um 18:16 schrieb Khaled Hosny: I'm rather jobless Sounds Egyptian... Are you trying to make some geopolitical statement or just wielding disparaging remarks, Peter? How di

Re: [XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro & XeTex

2011-02-07 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 07.02.2011 um 20:38 schrieb Khaled Hosny: I found it is more fun to keep living in my mom's basement and play with bytes and bits, Then you're presumingly much younger than I thought of... and it turned out that some crazy people want to pay me for that. Sounds you're luckier than me.

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, fontspec, OTF, and fontdimens

2011-02-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.02.2011 um 05:11 schrieb msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca: If I load a monospace OTF font with fontspec, it works fine at the default size, but when I change the size with LaTeX class-provided commands such as \Large, the spaces between words end up the wrong size. Matthew, XeTeX (and orig

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, fontspec, OTF, and fontdimens

2011-02-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.02.2011 um 19:57 schrieb msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca: Instead of exotic fonts you can use from TeX Live 2010 the GNU Freefonts in: No, I can't. The document in question is a type specimen, and written in a mixture of English and Japanese. Using a different font would defeat the e

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, fontspec, OTF, and fontdimens

2011-02-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.02.2011 um 23:50 schrieb msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca: Ulrike Fischer says that WordSpace should not be used as a "default" feature; but since it fails whenever the standard font-size commands are used, the practical effect is that WordSpace cannot be used at all. You can use WordSpace as

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, fontspec, OTF, and fontdimens

2011-02-20 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 20.02.2011 um 02:12 schrieb msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca: However, if I use XeTeX's default Computer Modern typewriter font by means of the \ttfamily macro, without loading fontspec, then the spaces scale and are not stretchable by default; it's resetting the fontdimens on every size chang

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, fontspec, OTF, and fontdimens

2011-02-20 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 20.02.2011 um 12:56 schrieb Khaled Hosny: XeTeX' Computer Modern default is actually Latin Modern. Without fontspec it loads the PostScript variants of Computer Modern. I'm not sure what this means, but without fontspec (or EU1 fontenc) XeTeX loads exactly the same computer modern fonts as

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, fontspec, OTF, and fontdimens

2011-02-20 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 20.02.2011 um 17:01 schrieb Khaled Hosny: I tried testing your example with a little modification Are you still using fontspec in your file? Without \defaultfontfeatures{}, when Latin Modern is loaded by fontspec, *I* don't see mono-spaced output in the \Large test case. -- Greeting

Re: [XeTeX] OT features -- followup

2011-02-21 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 21.02.2011 um 02:36 schrieb David Perry: COMMENT: similar warnings follow about ligatures not being available. But all these OT features are in the italic font and work correctly in some programs other than XeTeX, and I was asking for them to be applied to portions of the test file that

Re: [XeTeX] Space characters and whitespace

2011-02-22 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 22.02.2011 um 18:26 schrieb Tobias Schoel: 2. How should some ISO- or DIN-norms be interpreted in terms of "how to do this in xetex?"? I don't have these standards, they're a bit expensive. IMO \, is a small space. Maybe the isonums package is useful... -- Mit friedvollen Grüßen Pe

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, fontspec, OTF, and fontdimens

2011-02-27 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 27.02.2011 um 06:32 schrieb Will Robertson: Could we measure the width of an "i" and an "m", and if they're the same we'd be 99% sure it's a monospace font? You could also allow to set a mono(space) or fixed option to the options when declaring a font. (Which might allow to set monospa

Re: [XeTeX] charlint?

2011-03-03 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 03.03.2011 um 18:34 schrieb Dominik Wujastyk: What I'd like, ideally, is a little filter to run on my bib files periodically to clean up any char+non-spacing-accent glyphs. Maybe UnicodeChecker (http://earthlingsoft.net) could help – via its services, so it's for interactive use. -- Gr

Re: [XeTeX] charlint?

2011-03-03 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 03.03.2011 um 21:21 schrieb Dominik Wujastyk: But wot is a Mac? A big and ugly iPad which is good for something. -- Greetings Pete Only useless documentation transcends the first two laws. – Arnold's Third Law of Documentation --

Re: [XeTeX] charlint?

2011-03-03 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 03.03.2011 um 21:32 schrieb Dominik Wujastyk: show improvement, but the r-undercircle character (as in Kr̥ṣṇaśāstrī) results in a blank space. This character does not exist in composed form. You need to "form" it yourself. Best, using a font with COMBINING RING BELOW at U+0325.

Re: [XeTeX] Controlling spacing around macros

2011-03-06 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 06.03.2011 um 12:15 schrieb Bogdan Butnaru: Is this possible in XeLatex? The fontspec documentation describes such a property in chapter 8.3. It was mentioned here recently... -- Greetings Pete Who the fsck is "General Failure," and why is he reading my disk? ---

Re: [XeTeX] Asana Math Developers / Bug Report

2011-03-13 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 13.03.2011 um 15:00 schrieb Tobias Schoel: how can I contact the Asana Math Developers or file bug reports? Using otfinfo -i on the font I can see that Apostolos Syropoulos is responsible: asyropoulos at yahoo DOT com. -- Mit friedvollen Grüßen Pete Seelsorge statt Krankenkasse: d

Re: [XeTeX] Odd font behavior

2011-03-13 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 13.03.2011 um 19:28 schrieb Stephen Moye: Does anyone have any suggestions? Use xdvipdfmx -E to override the font's license! (Which obviously does not allow embedding...) -- Greetings Pete One cannot live by television, video games, top ten CDs, and dumb movies alone.

Re: [XeTeX] Odd font behavior

2011-03-13 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 13.03.2011 um 20:52 schrieb Stephen Moye: Likewise to no avail. Where is the prove that the font *is* embedded? If it's not embedded and not built into the printer then nothing will be printed. (And if you do not allow us to examine your font we can guess some more. I think xdvipdfmx

Re: [XeTeX] xelatex alive?

2011-03-22 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 22.03.2011 um 10:00 schrieb jonathan MERCIER: I would like know if xelatex project is already alive? It is *already*, and it still lives on. someone works on? Yes, a few folks. -- Greetings Pete "By filing this bug report you have challenged the honor of my family. Prepare to d

Re: [XeTeX] Character Variants

2011-03-27 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 27.03.2011 um 18:49 schrieb Bob Beckett: Incidentally, Kozuka Mincho is freely available for Adobe Reader. U+8FBB exists in this and quite a few other fonts, but which font has U +E0100? (And since this character is outside the BMP, the Basic Multilingual Pane, it won't be some usual f

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX in Emacs AUCTeX problem

2011-03-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.03.2011 um 17:17 schrieb Christoph Unger: Where can I look to find out what the problem is? In *scratch* buffer: (getenv "PATH") followed by a newline character after the closing parentheses, i.e. C- j. The value of $PATH in some *shell* or such buffer is not the same whic

Re: [XeTeX] Inlined images?

2011-04-11 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 11.04.2011 um 11:10 schrieb Jérôme Etévé: Is it possible to embed something like base64 encoded image data inlined in LaTeX? Yes! After the \end{document} line. Instead of \includegraphics{whatever}: no. Maybe TeXtures can something like this. There is also an interesting container f

Re: [XeTeX] Inlined images?

2011-04-12 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 12.04.2011 um 10:30 schrieb Jérôme Etévé: Nice, so how do we do that? For what? What do you try to achieve? -- Greetings Pete Sorry my terrible English, my native language Lisp -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List in

Re: [XeTeX] Two font data problems -- newbie question

2011-04-12 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 12.04.2011 um 02:25 schrieb Dan Drake: Running Mac OS 10.5.8 I reloaded the latest texlive release the other day; when I first saw the problem, it was on a 2009 release. Update to TeX Live 2010 (it has an up-to-date version of the microtype package) and then get an HZ enabled XeTeX bi

Re: [XeTeX] When to use which %!TEX

2011-04-13 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 13.04.2011 um 10:10 schrieb Pander: When to use %!TEX TS-program = xelatex Is it only for the file containing the \documentclass or also for all files which are included? When to use %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode I assume it is for all .tex files. Correct? Isn't it documented in the TeX

Re: [XeTeX] When to use which %!TEX

2011-04-13 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 13.04.2011 um 11:48 schrieb Pander: OK, so %!TEX TS-program is only for TeXShop. Is that also the case for %!TEX encoding? As documented. I'm not using TeXShop but Emacs and I was wondering if Emacs interprets %!TEX encoding as well or I need to use something different. GNU Emacs is v

Re: [XeTeX] Text output garbled after system update -- your ideas?

2011-04-14 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 14.04.2011 um 10:43 schrieb Kārlis Repsons: Any advice? Rebuild all font caches with the (fc-cache) -v option to see actually which font files are used. Then make sure that each font (file) is unique, no duplicates are allowed because xe(la)tex can find this and its output driver dv

Re: [XeTeX] Text output garbled after system update -- your ideas?

2011-04-14 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 14.04.2011 um 12:51 schrieb Kārlis Repsons: Could it happen that I really need those old fonts from there, not their new versions, should they appear? Forget the old ones! (Accept the new ones become incompatible to the older XeTeX software.) -- Greetings Pete I hope to die before

Re: [XeTeX] Text output garbled after system update -- your ideas?

2011-04-14 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 14.04.2011 um 20:37 schrieb Kārlis Repsons: can it work without conflicts and is there a risk to loose some functionality? Use the TeX supplied fonts! They are useful for your system and they have all auxiliary files pdfTeX and real tex and latex commands need. The other way round doe

Re: [XeTeX] Two font data problems -- newbie question

2011-04-15 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 15.04.2011 um 01:29 schrieb Dan Drake: Still pursuing other leads on this part of the weirdity. Put the word "draft" among the options with which you load a documentclass. Then you'll find black bars at the right end of over- full lines. Now you can put these words into a "\showhyphen

Re: [XeTeX] Text output garbled after system update -- your ideas?

2011-04-18 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 18.04.2011 um 18:45 schrieb Arash Zeini: This is a known problem with the latest version of Linux Libertine. TeX Live 2010 comes with version 4.8.7. From August 2010. This is almost one year ago. Enough time to test the package. At least a bit better than before. -- Greetings Pet

Re: [XeTeX] unicode characters not showing in xelatex

2011-04-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 18.04.2011 um 21:29 schrieb Jacobo Myerston: \usepackage{fontspec,xltxtra,xunicode} \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text} When you're using this default feature than you don't need to repeat it, as in the next line. \setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX, Mapping=tex-text]{Linux Libertine O} T

Re: [XeTeX] unicode characters not showing in xelatex

2011-04-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.04.2011 um 19:00 schrieb Alan Munn: (As of some recent version of fontspec) Which, another vague assumption, might not exist on Jacobo's PC or Mac... (I do not have it.) -- Greetings Pete A morning without coffee is like something without something else. -

Re: [XeTeX] unicode characters not showing in xelatex

2011-04-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.04.2011 um 19:48 schrieb Jacobo Myerston: Do I have to load this font first? You have to tell XeLaTeX what the symbol \Geneva stands for, for example with \newfontfamily. -- Greetings Pete If it should exist, it doesn't. – Arnold's First Law of Do

Re: [XeTeX] How can I encrypt (limit permissions) in my PDF?

2011-04-24 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 24.04.2011 um 09:24 schrieb Ron Aaron: However, this has two problems. First, it prompts for both owner and user passwords for the PDF, and there does not seem to be any way to specify them in a file or an option. This is an inflexible "security" option. Xdvipdfmx is obviously meant to

Re: [XeTeX] How can I encrypt (limit permissions) in my PDF?

2011-04-24 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 24.04.2011 um 11:50 schrieb Ron Aaron: OK, so this is a known bug? Not to me. My idea was that xdvipdfmx might be doing something that does not succeed in a pipe. -- Greetings Pete Ce qui a été compris n'existe plus. (Paul Eluard) --

Re: [XeTeX] Possible XeLatex bug observed using beamer class

2011-05-04 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 03.05.2011 um 16:29 schrieb Martin Collier: I've found an inconsistency in colour management when using the beamer class if using xelatex compared to the output of other engines. Martin, you're not describing the failure in "colour management" – but there is a difference when I use X

Re: [XeTeX] Oldstyle figures in seperate file

2011-05-05 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 05.05.2011 um 21:22 schrieb William Adams: Make a virtual font. This would work with pdfTeX but not with XeTeX, which does not understand this concept of 7-bit or 8-bit fonts with real crazy encodings. I'd use another font instance for the small caps and the old-style figures and

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeXpdffile in plain XeTeX

2011-05-06 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 06.05.2011 um 20:02 schrieb John Was: Is there some documentation to explain the correct usage of \XeTeXpdffile (preferably with worked examples)? CSTUG-talk.pdf, slides. PicFileSample.tex and XeTeX-notes.tex. From CERN: xetexmain.pdf. -- Greetings Pete Got Mole problems? Call Avoga

Re: [XeTeX] Test for font presence

2011-05-09 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 09.05.2011 um 21:15 schrieb Ron Aaron: It works, but is there an easier way? See the list archive near the end of last august! -- Greetings Pete Clovis' Consideration of an Atmospheric Anomaly: The perversity of nature is nowhere better demonstrated than by the fact that, w

Re: [XeTeX] Test for font presence

2011-05-10 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 10.05.2011 um 07:30 schrieb Ron Aaron: is there a simple way to make xdvipdfmx look for fonts in exactly the same manner as xetex? Teach it to use OS font services instead of TeX mechanisms! -- Greetings Pete Only useless documentation transcends the first two laws.

Re: [XeTeX] Test for font presence

2011-05-10 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 10.05.2011 um 10:53 schrieb Ron Aaron: Was that a sarcastic answer? Not really. It's more of an inability to imagine something else, which is not complicated. How would one go about accomplishing that? Writing code that fits into xdvipdfmx and augments it. -- Greetings Pete E

Re: [XeTeX] Test for font presence

2011-05-10 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 10.05.2011 um 14:09 schrieb Ron Aaron: So the correct answer would have been: "I don't know of a way to do that without changing xdvipdfmx". No. (Could you be so kind to read my answers again? Maybe my English is a bit too bad to express in a comprehensible way what I thought I coul

Re: [XeTeX] xelatex and table of contents

2011-05-11 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 11.05.2011 um 19:05 schrieb Alan Munn: Are babel and xelatex really compatible? Yes, they are – for the supported languages. (At least English, German, French work.) -- Greetings Pete Atheism is a non prophet organization. -- Subs

Re: [XeTeX] Formatting issues involving bidi

2011-05-26 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 26.05.2011 um 06:58 schrieb nathan.sid...@utoronto.ca: Does anyone have any suggestions? Did you update to the newest version of bidi (and other packages) with tlmgr or TLU? Updating could solve a lot of the effects you mention. -- Greetings Pete "Klingons do not believe in indent

Re: [XeTeX] "Options for all fonts" : colo[u]r, and the transparency byte

2011-06-05 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 05.06.2011 um 14:06 schrieb Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd): What am I missing, please ? Mac OS X's deprecated xdv2pdf. -- Greetings Pete Don't force it; get a larger hammer. – Anthony's Law of Force

Re: [XeTeX] "Options for all fonts" : colo[u]r, and the transparency byte

2011-06-05 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 05.06.2011 um 21:24 schrieb Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd): So how is it, I am forced to ask, that an add-on package can achieve something that the underlying engine cannot ? This seems very odd to me. The fontspec package does not use PDF specials which TiKZ/PGF uses. That's my sim

Re: [XeTeX] "Options for all fonts" : colo[u]r, and the transparency byte

2011-06-05 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 05.06.2011 um 21:54 schrieb Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd): So why doesn't it ?! Phil, it does! It passes all \special{}s without touching them into the output file. Whether you're using the xetex or the xelatex command plays no role: you have only access to the xetex engine's trans

Re: [XeTeX] tif inclusion

2011-06-06 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 06.06.2011 um 14:36 schrieb Vadim Radionov: is is true that compression from tif to png (with imagemagic) is lossless? Yes! In both formats all the pixels survive unchanged. Both are not JPEG or MPEG. -- Greetings Pete There are three types of people in this world: those who can

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