Re: [XeTeX] [Off-topic] Persian versus Farsi

2011-06-11 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 11.06.2011 um 16:23 schrieb Vafa Khalighi: Further homosexuality originated from Greece. That's so silly that you better return to kindergarten! Homosexuality exists world-wide as a natural phenomenon, as is the colour of eyes (or the language or the script). Some cultures are great

Re: [XeTeX] Problem with ocrb10.otf ligature 'fi'

2011-06-13 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 12.06.2011 um 22:26 schrieb Pander: I have discovered a problem with ocrb10.otf the ligatures are not workig correctly in xelatex. /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/ocr-b-outline/ ocrb10.otf *of course* does not have the f* ligatures. (You can check this easily

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

2011-06-13 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 06.06.2011 um 09:33 schrieb Tobias Schoel: 3. xdvipmx and xdv2pdf convert TikZ's \special{}s into pdf transparency on all systems. Xdv2pdf seems to produce some strange PDF output on my system (Mac OS X 10.5.8, PPC). The disdvi utility of TeX Live 2011 is able to disassemble an XDV f

Re: [XeTeX] Contextual Ligature Problems with OT Tamil Font Converted to AAT

2011-06-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 18.06.2011 um 23:20 schrieb Blake Wentworth: I would be delighted to know where the source of the initial problem lies You could specify the renderer engine! Fontspec allows \fontspec[Renderer=AAT]{font} (other options are ICU, usable for most fonts, and Graphite, usable for j

Re: [XeTeX] Contextual Ligature Problems with OT Tamil Font Converted to AAT

2011-06-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.06.2011 um 13:53 schrieb Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd): Is this meaningfully true for all platforms ? Of course not. But Blake used Apple Mail to send his message and he also mentions Mac OS X as the OS he uses, where his problems occur. So I tried to use my brain and mentioned t

Re: [XeTeX] Contextual Ligature Problems with OT Tamil Font Converted to AAT

2011-06-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.06.2011 um 15:14 schrieb Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd): Yes, but your mail will be read by others (such as myself) who are unaware of either of these facts, and will then be misled into believing that it should work in their platform. The term "AAT" stands for "Apple Advanced Typogra

Re: [XeTeX] Contextual Ligature Problems with OT Tamil Font Converted to AAT

2011-06-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.06.2011 um 15:58 schrieb Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd): I am not complaining : I am asking for precision, which is another matter entirely. So, here is precision: AAT is a proprietary Mac OS X font technology from Apple (maybe doomed to die). It started as QuickDraw GX, on which

Re: [XeTeX] Roman Numerals as stylistic alternatives

2011-06-20 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.06.2011 um 23:40 schrieb Tobias Schoel: m I the OP? (I don't know that abbreviation and therefore I am confused.) *O*riginal *P*oster. (I hope this posting looks original as well.) Unicode has codepoints for the roman numerals from 1 to 12 (why 12?). So should CXV be stored as an id

Re: [XeTeX] Roman Numerals as stylistic alternatives

2011-06-20 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 20.06.2011 um 16:59 schrieb Tobias Schoel: Are months written with roman numerals? Ask your granddad! (In other languages, for example Polish, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, the month is written in Roman numerals, sometimes with over- and under-strokes, in France and Spain the same wa

Re: [XeTeX] Diacritic marks in various fonts

2011-06-23 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 23.06.2011 um 19:11 schrieb Peter Baker: I can't reproduce the problem, but I'm using the CVS version of Junicode. This could be true! Believe me that I could reproduce the problem (in a XeLaTeX file, with Unicode font and text encoding). I then switched from Junicode to other fonts.

Re: [XeTeX] Isomath, Mathspec and Siunitx

2011-07-05 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 05.07.2011 um 06:56 schrieb Le Farfadet Spatial: . First, it seems that the font Linux Libertine does not have any bold italic characters. First, Michael Niedermair wrote three weeks ago to include into your LaTeX document the line \usepackage{libertine} and it's meant to al

Re: [XeTeX] Isomath, Mathspec and Siunitx

2011-07-05 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 05.07.2011 um 10:36 schrieb le.farfadet.spat...@free.fr: Are you sure you are not mistaking me with someone else? Yes, I am. In the footer of the mails of this list you can find a link to the list's archive. In the middle of June a thread about some too heavy Libertine face started. Re

Re: [XeTeX] epsdice package.

2011-07-15 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 15.07.2011 um 00:57 schrieb Michael Joyner: I am trying to use the epsdice package from inside LyX, and when I switch to using xelatex as the formatting engine, the package malfunctions. This packages is a bit old and meant to be used with the pdfTeX engine. With XeTeX you can:

Re: [XeTeX] epsdice package.

2011-07-16 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 16.07.2011 um 09:38 schrieb Michael Joyner: > As a sort of an aside (could tie into this) Is there a way to specify a > "fallback" font for tetex to use when a glyph is not present in the current > active font? The results of finding in some other font the character would not satisfy the use

Re: [XeTeX] epsdice package.

2011-07-16 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 16.07.2011 um 10:55 schrieb Michael Joyner: > Here is the current results attached as a single page PDF. I'm missing the use of IPA – how do you pronounce these words? -- Greetings Pete Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. – Allen's Law -

Re: [XeTeX] epsdice package.

2011-07-16 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 16.07.2011 um 18:04 schrieb Michael Joyner: Am 16.07.2011 um 09:38 schrieb Michael Joyner: As a sort of an aside (could tie into this) Is there a way to specify a "fallback" font for tetex to use when a glyph is not present in the current active font? The results of finding in some o

Re: [XeTeX] epsdice package.

2011-07-16 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 16.07.2011 um 22:30 schrieb msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca: Bear in mind that the audience for his project is not linguists who might already know IPA, but language learners. Probably British learners, so they would know how "Hee" is pronounced in English. In German it might me transcribed as

Re: [XeTeX] epsdice package.

2011-07-16 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 16.07.2011 um 23:32 schrieb Michael Joyner: How would one leverage that to handle my font defines of (below) for only a fixed range of unicode? You either use a loop to activate the up to 128 characters or you use a font with Cherokee script and characters support to type Cherokee. Or

Re: [XeTeX] epsdice package.

2011-07-17 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 17.07.2011 um 00:42 schrieb Michael Joyner: The font definition I posted has Cherokee glyphs, but I have to fake bold, etc. Try GNU FreeSerif and FreeSans! (My FreeMono has only one Cherokee type face.) -- Greetings Pete Some day we may discover how to make magnets that can poin

Re: [XeTeX] epsdice package.

2011-07-17 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 17.07.2011 um 16:21 schrieb Michael Joyner: > If I wanted to redefine > the UNICODE range for Cherokee Glyphs to match the below, so that I could > leave the rest using standard fonts, by using the \def approach, how would > you do it? Maybe this (untested) works: \newfontfamily\Che

Re: [XeTeX] Microtype and XeTeX on Linux

2011-07-17 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 17.07.2011 um 17:58 schrieb Petr Tomasek: > are the microtype fetures already merged into XeTeX SVN TRUNK, I think they are, but the TeX Live 2010 distribution does not have the new microtype package. The update is available via tlmgr (or TLU on Mac OS X) from the repository http://tlcontri

Re: [XeTeX] epsdice package.

2011-07-18 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 17.07.2011 um 22:59 schrieb Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Rettet): > Peter Dyballa wrote: > >>\def\n{\Cher\n} > > Can't see that working : won't the expansion of > \n involve the expansion of \n, which will involve > the ... (you get the idea). Yes,

Re: [XeTeX] epsdice package.

2011-07-18 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 18.07.2011 um 11:34 schrieb Susan Dietmar: > If I understand correctly, he wants to > construct a loop, where \n contains the loop's counter (and the integer > representation of the character to be replaced, if I understand correctly), > so he does not want to define \n, but define whatever \n

Re: [XeTeX] Background color does not work

2011-08-03 Thread Peter Dyballa
>> After searching on google I found the command >> >> \special{x:backgroundcolor=color} Could be this \special{} is meant for the old Mac OS X output driver xdv2pdf... -- Greetings Pete Globalisation – communism from above. -- Subscriptio

Re: [XeTeX] Error upon install texlive on OpenBSD ports.

2011-08-04 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 04.08.2011 um 15:02 schrieb Alan Jones: > ! LaTeX Error: File `xetex.def' not found. > > Type X to quit or to proceed, > or enter new name. (Default extension: def) Here you could try to invoke, in a second shell, 'sudo texhash' to make your TeX installation aware of all its files. You can

Re: [XeTeX] Error upon install texlive on OpenBSD ports.

2011-08-04 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 04.08.2011 um 22:11 schrieb Peter Dyballa: > Actually it might be possible to use the tlmgr (TeX Live [distribution] > Manager) script to update your TeX installation. Doing so today might be a bit dangerous. See this thread: http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2011-August/02987

Re: [XeTeX] Xetex TexLife and fc-cache

2011-08-10 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 10.08.2011 um 10:28 schrieb John Was: > It's not an intellectually satisfying solution, but could you not yourself be > the first (dummy) customer each day, offering up a file for PDF conversion so > that the initial slow processing happens only to you? It should be easier, and more efficie

Re: [XeTeX] XeLateX problem after updating

2011-08-13 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 13.08.2011 um 06:08 schrieb Neal Delmonico: > ---! /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/web2c/xetex/xelatex.fmt doesn't match > xetex.pool > (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) Did you read the sequence "2 0 0 9"? It tells you that you are *not* using the updated xelatex. > > How do I fix

Re: [XeTeX] XeLateX problem after updating

2011-08-13 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 13.08.2011 um 10:45 schrieb Dominik Wujastyk: > have you tried rebuilding the fmt file? Tlmgr usually does this job. (Also updating the MAP files.) -- Greetings Pete Upgraded, adj.: Didn't work the first time. -- Subscriptions, A

Re: [XeTeX] XeLateX problem after updating

2011-08-13 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 13.08.2011 um 20:01 schrieb Neal Delmonico: > Any suggestions? Please use the updated version! Not the old stuff from 2009. -- Greetings Pete When you meet a master swordsman, show him your sword. When you meet a man who is not a poet, do not show him your poem. –

Re: [XeTeX] Please help me in editing with fancy header in Latex

2011-08-23 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 23.08.2011 um 15:09 schrieb Wilfred van Rooijen: > #> locate SIunits Locate is some non-TeX utility. It is not guaranteed that it will function. Better use the texdoc utility. The command texdoc texdoc should enable you to use texdoc. -- Greetings Pete Without vi there is only

Re: [XeTeX] 64.bit XeTex was::Re: Trying to build microtype-aware xetex

2011-08-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.08.2011 um 09:53 schrieb Keith J. Schultz: > The question is if there is an actual need to still support ATSU at all? This question could probably be answered on some fonts or font technologies related list. Maybe Apple folks could contribute by answering whether Apple is going to

Re: [XeTeX] Microtype (was Re: Trying to build microtype-aware xetex)

2011-08-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.08.2011 um 12:56 schrieb Chris Yocum: > I was just wondering what would be necessary to get micro-type into the > core of XeTeX? The recent XeTeX versions in TeX Live 2010 and 2011 *are* micro-type enabled. > > After looking at the wiki > (http://xetex.tk/mediawiki/index.php/Microtype_pa

Re: [XeTeX] 64.bit XeTex was::Re: Trying to build microtype-aware xetex

2011-08-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.08.2011 um 16:43 schrieb Keith J. Schultz: > ATSU is deprecated and replaced by Core Text for handling unicode as of > Leopard. > > So, xetex has to be refractured or rewritten to use Core Text on the Mac. Why? XeTeX pioneered in the use of Unicode in TeX. Its development has come to

Re: [XeTeX] 64.bit XeTex was::Re: Trying to build microtype-aware xetex

2011-08-31 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 31.08.2011 um 12:02 schrieb Keith J. Schultz: > Nothing is considered stable just yet. The same would be true when you try to port XeTeX from ATSUI to CoreText. > > In other words, xe(la)tex would be the way to go. For awhile. And therefore keep old versions of Mac OS X! Leopard and Snow

Re: [XeTeX] 64.bit XeTex was::Re: Trying to build microtype-aware xetex

2011-08-31 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 31.08.2011 um 16:50 schrieb Jonathan Kew: > Why, is there a problem with running the current (Intel build of) xetex on > 10.7? I wasn't aware of this. And neither me. Because I'm not using Lion (Mac OS X 10.7). > > Seems like you're introducing unnecessary complication and confusion I

Re: [XeTeX] Microtype (was Re: Trying to build microtype-aware xetex)

2011-08-31 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 31.08.2011 um 20:42 schrieb Rolf Schmolling: > So what to do? As Herb mentioned: you need to download and install the "experimental" microtype package from the TLcontrib site. Tlmgr on all platforms and TLU (TeX Live Utility) on modern Mac OS X platforms (Snow Leopard, Lion) can perform th

Re: [XeTeX] 64.bit XeTex was::Re: Trying to build microtype-aware xetex

2011-09-01 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 01.09.2011 um 01:29 schrieb Arthur Reutenauer: > On a related note, are you aware that you should never talk to a llama > wearing your socks inside out? I actually don't care, I prefer to go naked. At least down under. -- Greetings Pete Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so

Re: [XeTeX] fontspec's \setmathrm seems to have no effect

2011-09-01 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 01.09.2011 um 14:27 schrieb Daniel Greenhoe: > So instead of the \setmathrm giving me the font I requested, I seem to > be getting a computer modern font. Why would this be??? Because you don't set your maths in \mathrm! The default for maths is a sans-serif font, because the text usually co

Re: [XeTeX] 64.bit XeTex was::Re: Trying to build microtype-aware xetex

2011-09-01 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 01.09.2011 um 19:44 schrieb Keith J. Schultz: > Woof! Wasn't it “Moof”? Moof.aiff Description: audio/aiff -- Greetings Pete _oo o o _<< \\_/\_, \\_ \\_/\_, (*)/(*) (*) (*) (*) `-(*) -- Subscr

Re: [XeTeX] 64.bit XeTex was::Re: Trying to build microtype-aware xetex

2011-09-01 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 01.09.2011 um 20:13 schrieb Keith J. Schultz: > Furthermore I do not know which compilers are used over at MacTeX as this > does matter > in ways which are far to complicates to discuss here. It's not only a question of compilers – you also need SDKs! If you want to create new binaries whic

Re: [XeTeX] 64.bit XeTex was::Re: Trying to build microtype-aware xetex

2011-09-01 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 01.09.2011 um 21:12 schrieb Keith J. Schultz: > Are you sure you know what you are talking- er- writing about!! Yes. The problem is with libgcc (or libstdc++ or libobjc). You don't need to include it in the static binary, because the target OS has it. Tiger has only the GCC 4.0.1

Re: [XeTeX] 64.bit XeTex was::Re: Trying to build microtype-aware xetex

2011-09-02 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 02.09.2011 um 03:12 schrieb Keith J. Schultz: > So If I follow you right I should build a 64-bit xetex for Tiger! ;-))) Some folks prefer 64-bit applications. Tiger doesn't support that much 64-bit hardware, starting with Mac OS X 10.4.8. Tiger has working ATSUI, so a 64-bit XeTeX based o

Re: [XeTeX] changing font location

2011-09-05 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 05.09.2011 um 01:11 schrieb Tschijnmo Tschau: > kpathsea: Invalid fontname `Gentium Book Basic', contains ' ' This, "kpathsea", indicates that fontspec did not find the font name in the system's font service and therefore delegated the job of finding the font to TeX. It is correct to edit

Re: [XeTeX] using xetex, leaflet and includegraphics

2011-09-15 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 15.09.2011 um 10:13 schrieb Marc Hohl: > I used "xdvi" instead of "dvipdfm" How can you display an XDV (or PDF) file with xdvi? Dvipdfm is neither able to use an XDV file, the intermediary output format of XeTeX, which you usually do not see, because it's piped to xdvipdfmx, which produces

Re: [XeTeX] using xetex, leaflet and includegraphics

2011-09-15 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 15.09.2011 um 19:07 schrieb Zdenek Wagner: > Remember that graphics inclusion is not a job of TeX but a job of the > driver. I know. XeTeX does not produce such a message. It can easily handle PNG and others, without needing a BB or XBB file. This line comes from using dvipdfm. And dvipdfm

Re: [XeTeX] Astrological symbols

2011-09-17 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 16.09.2011 um 22:09 schrieb John Was: > Not a strictly XeTeX issue, but can anyone recommend a font (preferably > Unicode compliant but not absolutely essential) that contains the > astrological symbols (planets, zodiacal signs etc.: mainly Unicode range > 263D and following) and will look

Re: [XeTeX] Xetex and type1 font

2011-09-18 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 18.09.2011 um 22:02 schrieb rhin...@postmail.ch: > This point is quite important, since it is much easier to install a font > in the system as to install it for TeX. Either look into the texmf.cnf files for AFM or FONT related variables or simply invoke: kpsewhich -engine xetex -sho

Re: [XeTeX] Difference between XeLaTeX and LaTeX

2011-09-22 Thread Peter Dyballa
> : >> Hi All, >> >> >> >> Are they any comparisons documents, which shows the difference between >> XeLaTeX and LaTeX typesettings? There can't be any. Both pass the TRIP test. -- Greetings Pete The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for « entrepreneur ».

Re: [XeTeX] Difference between XeLaTeX and LaTeX

2011-09-22 Thread Peter Dyballa
>> >> 2. XeLaTeX cannot use microtypographical extensions but it may change >> in the future. Currently pdflatex or lualatex is needed. > > Actually there are already experimental versions of XeTeX lying around > that have some microtypographical features, see: > http://xetex.tk/mediawiki/index.

Re: [XeTeX] Shadow with Xelatex

2011-09-23 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 23.09.2011 um 18:32 schrieb Jean-Louis Garcin: > And the same list of commands when I typesset with latex instead of xelatex > is succesfull. PSTricks are written for the pdfTeX engine. XeTeX uses a different engine which supports some of the PSTricks. You could try LuaTeX... You could al

Re: [XeTeX] Strange behaviour xelatex/fontspec/Windows

2011-09-25 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 24.09.2011 um 21:20 schrieb rhin...@postmail.ch: > \fontspec[% >Extension=.otf, >UprightFont = *, >BoldFont=*Bold, >ItalicFont=*Italic, >BoldItalicFont=*BoldItalic]{GFSDidot} With XeTeX you certainly don't need this block. I could get your result onl

Re: [XeTeX] Strange behaviour xelatex/fontspec/Windows

2011-09-25 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 25.09.2011 um 10:55 schrieb rhin...@postmail.ch: > Is this solution possible under Windows ? How to implement it ? I prefer not to use MS Windows privately. (The setup for fontconfig is documented, some .CNF files already exist in the distribution.) -- Greetings

Re: [XeTeX] Strange behaviour xelatex/fontspec/Windows

2011-09-26 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 25.09.2011 um 10:55 schrieb rhin...@postmail.ch: > Yes I would prefer not to install GFS Didot in the font > directory of Windows and thus not to use the font service > for this font. There are two or three possible options… You could put the fonts into the same directory as the TeX file.

Re: [XeTeX] default fonts for text and math in xelatex (ubuntu, texlive 2011)

2011-09-29 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 29.09.2011 um 12:34 schrieb peter knezel: > what is the default font setting for text and for math in xelatex? For text it's Latin Modern. You can check the fonts used with the pdffonts utility (from xpdf package). With given \pagestyle{empty} you can exactly determine which fonts are used

Re: [XeTeX] default fonts for text and math in xelatex (ubuntu, texlive 2011)

2011-09-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.09.2011 um 08:48 schrieb peter knezel: > How should I know which of them supports math fonts and which of them is > monospaced (like Courier New)? With the fontconfig package you should have received the file /usr/X11/share/doc/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html (or in some similar path). I

Re: [XeTeX] Odd hyphenations

2011-09-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.09.2011 um 17:26 schrieb NEAL DELMONICO: > I assume the new progs were copied over the old ones. No, Neal, this does never happen. > Is that okay, or should I do a clean install and update to 2011? You should update PATH, MANPATH, INFOPATH instead. Look at /usr/local/texlive! You'll se

Re: [XeTeX] Odd hyphenations

2011-09-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.09.2011 um 19:03 schrieb Neal Delmonico: > How does one do this on a Windows machine? I don't know; and I prefer to use other Windows, those I can open and close. -- Greetings Pete Encryption, n.: A powerful algorithmic encoding technique employed in the creation of computer

Re: [XeTeX] fontspec.sty- xelatex: GUI framework cannot be initialized.

2011-10-04 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 04.10.2011 um 12:01 schrieb Vladimir Lomov: > Don't do that! Please, read carefully l2tabue (search for file > `l2tabue.pdf' or run 'texdoc l2tabue'). It's "l2tabuen". -- Greetings Pete Time flies like an error – but fruit flies like a banana! - (almost) G

Re: [XeTeX] Installing Linux Libertine from TeXLive on Debian

2011-10-06 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 06.10.2011 um 22:33 schrieb Le Farfadet Spatial: > Does anybody have an idea to solve this problem? Don't run fc-cache on the doc(uments) tree but the fonts tree! (/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/fonts) -- Greetings Pete There's no place like ~ – (UNIX Guru)

Re: [XeTeX] Installing Linux Libertine from TeXLive on Debian

2011-10-06 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 06.10.2011 um 23:29 schrieb Pander: > It can also differ to run > fc-cache -f > and > sudo fc-cache -f > so I'd recommend to run both At least this system-wide directory was touched: >> /var/cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory -- Greetings Pete Got Mole problems? Call Avogadro

Re: [XeTeX] Installing Linux Libertine from TeXLive on Debian

2011-10-08 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 08.10.2011 um 03:15 schrieb Le Farfadet Spatial: > I went in the directory, and have run both commands. None of them has given > any output, but I still get the error with Linux Libertine. OK! Did you configure fontconfig to scan the libertine directory? Can you repeat the fc-cache command(

Re: [XeTeX] Runaway argument issues

2011-10-11 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 12.10.2011 um 00:10 schrieb Chris Travers: > texlive-xetex-2007-51.fc13.i686 Now that the 2011 is almost finished you could consider updating to TeX Live 2011… -- Greetings Pete Rain is saved up in cloud banks. -- Subscriptions, Archiv

Re: [XeTeX] IPA characters

2011-10-12 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 12.10.2011 um 16:28 schrieb Hendrik Maryns: > I want to use some IPA characters in my document What you also need is to use a font for "printing" these IPA characters that actually has them! Not all fonts have them. The fontspec default font, Latin Modern, does not. Linux Libertine O/Linux

Re: [XeTeX] IPA characters

2011-10-12 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 12.10.2011 um 17:40 schrieb Tobias Schoel: > the character seems not to be included in Latin Modern (standard with > fontspec). Because it's not IPA (LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA, U+0251). -- Mit friedvollen Grüßen Pete The best way to accelerate a PC is 9.8 m/s² ---

Re: [XeTeX] Always bold math & strange unicode-math behaviour

2011-10-13 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 13.10.2011 um 18:35 schrieb Tobias Schoel: > So what component is the source of problems. Asana Math. It has only a regular face. (Fontspec allows to artificially make a font bold.) -- Mit friedvollen Grüßen Pete To be is to do. – I. Kant To do is to be.

Re: [XeTeX] Compilation errors with xmltex files with XeLaTeX

2011-10-14 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 14.10.2011 um 12:03 schrieb Suresh Avvarulakshmi, Integra-PDY, IN: > I was trying to compile the XMLTeX source files in XeLaTeX application. OK, you know that these files exist somewhere. Can you tell us where they exist? -- Greetings Pete <] o

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-18 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 18.10.2011 um 10:30 schrieb Chris Travers: > Is there any way to manually create this file? TeX Live comes with a utility, fmtutil-sys. It allows to create FMT files for the *system*. Private FMT files can be created with fmtutil. The former is kind of a wrapper for the latter, so the only

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-18 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 18.10.2011 um 15:43 schrieb Chris Travers: > Given that server software that I work with usually has at least a > five year support cycle, what are those reasonable limits? For TeX I'd think in decades. And support in the way TeX understands this term is constant development and constant upd

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-18 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 18.10.2011 um 16:39 schrieb Chris Travers: > Here's a breakdown of OS support for TexLive versions for anyone interested: > > Debian Lenny: TexLive 2007 > Debian Squeeze: TexLive 2009 > Debian Sid: TexLive 2009 > Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: TexLive 2009 > Red Hat Enterprise 6: TexLive 2007 > That

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.10.2011 um 12:19 schrieb Chris Travers: > If RHEL 6 (released about a year ago) is sticking to TeXLive 2007, we all > have problems. The only problem is that of understanding. It's like the fifth wheel or the tool to change wheels that come with new car. They're not really usable, they'

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.10.2011 um 16:09 schrieb Chris Travers: > However, it seems > to me that this community here doesn't really care about the kinds of > environments where this sort of document processing occurs. Or this community knows how to get back to functioning state. Or uses test or development areas

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.10.2011 um 16:21 schrieb Herbert Schulz: > I don't think packages in updated TeX Live installations are changed > arbitrarily but rather in response to bug fixes that others, and possibly not > all users, have observed. Indeed! Usually new (possibly bugful) features enter stage when a ne

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-20 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 20.10.2011 um 12:32 schrieb Petr Tomasek: > This is the best way to hell. Native packages should be used and not some > stupid external blob! Can it be that you see stupidity because you can't see tlmgr and that the blob is similar to any Linux distribution? What keeps you from installing T

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-20 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 20.10.2011 um 12:53 schrieb Chris Travers: > However, statically linking things strikes me as even worse from a > stability/security perspective (which is what is critical with server > software). It means that if there is a bug in any of the libraries > you have possibly linked to, you have

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-20 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 20.10.2011 um 13:24 schrieb Chris Travers: > So if libz needs a security update, I can get it without replacing > everything else What do you gain with that? What is the difference between overwriting 5 MB or 50 MB of disk space? -- Greetings Pete Bake pizza not war! ---

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-20 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 20.10.2011 um 13:32 schrieb Susan Dittmar: > Could you tell me how to do that for openSUSE from the top of your head? No. I never created the specification for an RPM or DEB package in Linux (I think I edited a few of them). Once it's created the package manager will build the package and p

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-20 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 20.10.2011 um 16:12 schrieb Chris Travers: > Not disturbing other dependencies that production software depends on. It can't. It does not carry shared libraries, DLLs, or such, that make ld_config or such go mad. TeX Live is like the universe: it's self-contained. And expanding... -- G

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-20 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 20.10.2011 um 16:54 schrieb Chris Travers: > One of the other commentors talks about documents that don't render on > all versions of TexLive. If a client of mine is depending on this > working, upgrading the various stuff from CTAN in order to get a > security fix in an underlying program is

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-20 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 20.10.2011 um 17:08 schrieb Petr Tomasek: > And that's exactly what's wrong and what needs to be changed... Yes, I wouldn't stand the pain when the big rip will happen. This will feel like the middle ages. Before this we will get very bloated, which should hurt as well. I also prefer the bi

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-21 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 21.10.2011 um 00:51 schrieb Chris Travers: > I'm not the one mixing things up. What I am saying is perhaps a bit > different. If you are tying the .sty upgrades to binary upgrades, > then an upgrade in a binary requires .sty upgrades, and these can > break document generation systems. Neith

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-21 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 21.10.2011 um 01:42 schrieb Chris Travers: > At the time a large portion of the industry was writing software > statically linked against zlib I think it wasn't zlib, it was versions of zlib, presumingly dozens. > > If TexLive had been around in 2002 and was statically linking to zlib, > it

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-21 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 21.10.2011 um 09:40 schrieb Chris Travers: > Am I reading this wrong? No, but you you're choosing the wrong candidates, those from the old and smelling Linux packages. -- 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 re

Re: [XeTeX] TECkit map for Latin alphabet to Unicode IPA

2011-10-24 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 24.10.2011 um 00:57 schrieb Daniel Greenhoe: > I am talking about these for example ... > T ==> theta ('124) > A ==> script A ('101) > @ ==> schwa ('100) > 2 ==> turned V ('062) > D ==> Eth ('104) > E ==> epsilon ('105) > N ==> right-tail n ('357) > S ==> Esh ('123) >

Re: [XeTeX] TECkit map for Latin alphabet to Unicode IPA

2011-10-25 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 25.10.2011 um 20:12 schrieb Andy Lin: > %These two lines are for xunicode, if you use it instead > %\newfontface\doulos{Doulos SIL} > %\def\useTIPAfont{\doulos} > \newfontface\tipafont[Mapping=xetex-textipa]{Doulos SIL} And another option is to turn this font declaration (similar to {\rmfamil

Re: [XeTeX] TECkit map for Latin alphabet to Unicode IPA

2011-10-27 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 27.10.2011 um 10:06 schrieb Daniel Greenhoe: > If I can do this conversion from the command line, why can't fontspec > handle it correctly? That is, before fontspec tries to interpret a > sequence beginning with "\" as a command, why can't it first check to > see if the sequence is up for repl

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] Ftuture state of XeTeX in TeXLive

2011-10-28 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 28.10.2011 um 13:58 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: > If nothing else, if nobody adapts > the code, it might stop working with next version of Mac OS X or a > version after that. Mac OS X is not the world. Classic Mac OS was the basis for the first XeTeX development. When Apple decides to change its

Re: [XeTeX] TECkit map for Latin alphabet to Unicode IPA

2011-10-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.10.2011 um 02:12 schrieb Daniel Greenhoe: > For example the "b" with a small circle under it > (voiceless b) is quite important in Chinese. Any suggestions for > typesetting glyphs with diacritics? With COMBINING RING BELOW, U+0325? -- Greetings Pete Engineer: a mechanism for converti

Re: [XeTeX] TECkit map for Latin alphabet to Unicode IPA

2011-10-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.10.2011 um 10:11 schrieb Daniel Greenhoe: > How do I in general put, for example, U+0325 below U+0062, > while still maintaining proper alignment (e.g. the bottom of the "b" > (U+0062) with a ring (U+0325) below it is still aligned with the > bottom of an adjacent "c" (U+0063) with nothing

Re: [XeTeX] TECkit map for Latin alphabet to Unicode IPA

2011-10-31 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 31.10.2011 um 19:06 schrieb Andy Lin: > IIRC (and I might not), Calibri, Meiryo, and Tahoma(Windows Vista or > later) should have at least partial support of IPA characters. My > fallback font is Lucida Sans Unicode. I checked my own font repertoire. The Tahoma I have (Version 5.01.2x) has th

Re: [XeTeX] How to Convert Devanagari (sanskrit) text to Telugu Text

2011-11-03 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 03.11.2011 um 13:46 schrieb A u: > /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/fonts/misc/xetex/fontmappings/ The correct pathname would be: /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/fonts/misc/xetex/fontmapping. Since your files are local additions to the TeX distribution it's better you save them in

Re: [XeTeX] How to Convert Devanagari (sanskrit) text to Telugu Text

2011-11-03 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 03.11.2011 um 16:57 schrieb Zdenek Wagner: > doubling "fonts" in texmf-local/fonts/fonts/misc/... will be a problem. Bad mistake, indeed. Too many interrupts might excuse this faux-pas... > The output of strace could help. Mac OS X comes without strace. But it has DTrace... -- Greetings

Re: [XeTeX] How to Convert Devanagari (sanskrit) text to Telugu Text

2011-11-03 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 03.11.2011 um 23:53 schrieb A u: > I checked line number 54 and it looks like this "U+092F > U+0C2F" To me it looks like U+092E > U+0C2EU -- Greetings Pete Remember: use logout to logout. -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List inf

Re: [XeTeX] How to Convert Devanagari (sanskrit) text to Telugu Text

2011-11-03 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 04.11.2011 um 00:04 schrieb A u: > I am attaching the tex file that I am working with along with pdf output and > log file. You would have found the cause of the failures if would have looked into the LOG file... Firstly you are obviously using TeX Live 2010. So installing the teckit files

Re: [XeTeX] How to Convert Devanagari (sanskrit) text to Telugu Text

2011-11-03 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 04.11.2011 um 01:13 schrieb Zdenek Wagner: > 2011/11/4 Peter Dyballa : >> >> Am 03.11.2011 um 23:53 schrieb A u: >> >>> I checked line number 54 and it looks like this "U+092F > U+0C2F" >> >> To me it looks like >> >>

Re: [XeTeX] How to Convert Devanagari (sanskrit) text to Telugu Text

2011-11-03 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 04.11.2011 um 00:04 schrieb A u: > I created new map file and it did not give any errors. but I am still > getting blank pdf. By using the correct TEC file's name I get something Indic with a Latin page number 1. The fonts used are, according to pdfinfo: name

Re: [XeTeX] Synching PDF paper size with typesetting size

2011-11-05 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 05.11.2011 um 19:06 schrieb Karljurgen Feuerherm: > Typesets fine... But the output PDF is still letter size Either set \pdfpagewidth=176truemm \pdfpageheight=250truemm or use the geometry package! -- Mit friedvollen Grüßen Pete I hope to die before I *have* to use Micr

Re: [XeTeX] Synching PDF paper size with typesetting size

2011-11-05 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 05.11.2011 um 19:06 schrieb Karljurgen Feuerherm: > Typesets fine... But the output PDF is still letter size There are two more options, of course, because it's a (well) known problem: xelatex -papersize=b5 … # don't know by heart what's supported xdvipdfmx -p b5 … # do

Re: [XeTeX] Trouble with the new Xetex

2011-11-06 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 06.11.2011 um 02:15 schrieb Andrew Gollan: > The Invalid glyph is > actually the result of a \=V in one place, but the \=y is being printed as > a spiral in the PDF if that is remove V with macron does not exist in Unicode (but U with macron does, so it looks bad, until you invent a good mac

Re: [XeTeX] Trouble with the new Xetex

2011-11-06 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 06.11.2011 um 12:41 schrieb Andrew Gollan: > It used to work. Yes! I too remember that I could typeset documents in Palatino Linotype with XeLaTeX. Actually I still can! Sorry, I'm a bit busy with other things today… But what I've found is that your use of composed characters with macro

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