Re: [XeTeX] Segfault when trying to use Hoefler Text on OS X 10.6

2010-03-05 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 24.02.2010 um 23:47 schrieb Herbert Schulz: > > On Feb 24, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Philipp Stephani wrote: > >> Am 24.02.2010 um 20:13 schrieb Philipp Stephani: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm trying to use Hoefler Text on OS X 10.6, but xelatex s

Re: [XeTeX] EuroTeX 2009 proceedings

2010-03-20 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 20.03.2010 um 00:33 schrieb Peter Dyballa: > > Am 20.03.2010 um 00:13 schrieb David Perry: > >> When I started learning TeX, I could find only one editor, TeXworks, that >> was Unicode-aware. And that is still the case, although I see that >> TeXnicCenter has now rolled out an alpha versio

Re: [XeTeX] EuroTeX 2009 proceedings

2010-03-20 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 20.03.2010 um 00:41 schrieb Peter Baker: > Peter Dyballa wrote: >> >> Am 20.03.2010 um 00:13 schrieb David Perry: >> >>> When I started learning TeX, I could find only one editor, TeXworks, that >>> was Unicode-aware. And that is still the case, although I see that >>> TeXnicCenter has no

Re: [XeTeX] Emacs (was: EuroTeX 2009 proceedings)

2010-03-20 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 20.03.2010 um 08:17 schrieb Janusz S. Bień: > On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 Peter Baker wrote: > > [...] > >> Emacs hasn't been Unicode-aware for a whole long time; > > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html > > Emacs has quite good basic UTF-8 support starting from version 21.3 > > Emacs

Re: [XeTeX] Emacs

2010-03-20 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 20.03.2010 um 09:43 schrieb Philiрp Rеichmuth: > In general, however, both TeX and Emacs have been quite > a bit behind the curve. TeX still is in many ways (BibTeX comes to mind). > XeTeX is the big exception. This is only true for LaTeX, ConTeXt is a fairly modern system. -

Re: [XeTeX] accented character ṛ within \section {ṛ}

2010-04-26 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 26.04.2010 um 21:23 schrieb Herbert Schulz: > > On Apr 26, 2010, at 11:44 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:11:52PM -0400, Peter Baker wrote: >>> This is because Junicode does not have precisely the same character >>> set in all faces. >> >> That is one reason I person

Re: [XeTeX] Mathspec and babel make xelatex hang

2010-05-13 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 13.05.2010 um 05:21 schrieb Andrew Moschou: > Actually, now that I think about it, it might have something to do with the > active character: ". Both German babel and mathspec define it and there might > be an incompatibility. Try using polyglossia instead of babel: The latter was written w

Re: [XeTeX] Weird character swap when using xelatex+fontspec+listings

2010-05-30 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 30.05.2010 um 19:44 schrieb Eelis van der Weegen: > When I compile the attached t.tex with xelatex I get the attached t.pdf, > in which the big pi has somehow switched positions with 'a'. What's > going on here? :) The listings package hasn't been updated for a long time and is completely Un

Re: [XeTeX] \botmark and \firstmark not working for me ...

2010-08-01 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 01.08.2010 um 09:28 schrieb Ron Aaron: > On Sunday 01 August 2010 10:16:27 Paul Isambert wrote: > >> Indeed, the \mark won't end up on the main vertical list. In the latest >> TUGboat issue, Hans Hagen writes about this and proposes a nice >> solution... but with LuaTeX! > > Hmm. I really n

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

2010-08-17 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 17.08.2010 um 10:31 schrieb Peter Dyballa: > Has Thunderbird a way to send a message to this list without usurping an > existing thread? Posting a new message (without using the answer function) to xetex@tug.org should start a new thread. --

Re: [XeTeX] OldStyle symbols with Hoefler Text?

2010-08-19 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 19.08.2010 um 16:51 schrieb Alan Munn: > On Aug 18, 2010, at 1:44 PM, chagrins wrote: > >> With Adobe Garamond Pro, when I use >> >> \defaultfontfeatures{Numbers={Proportional,OldStyle}} >> >> ...it also outputs "lowercase" symbols - for example, the dollar sign >> matches the numbers. >>

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

2010-09-08 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 08.09.2010 um 08:46 schrieb Wilfred van Rooijen: > Hi all, > >> But why ? What exactly do you dislike about the use >> of >> sans serif for headings ? To my mind, and in a >> scientific >> as opposed to artistic context, sans serif headings with >> serif prose seem absolutely normal and fin

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation "initiative"

2010-09-11 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 10.09.2010 um 19:24 schrieb Michiel Kamermans: > and I personally jumped straight into xelatex because the internet told me it > was the only unicode-aware flavour of TeX That is not correct, LuaTeX is Unicode-based as well. > making the choice ridiculously easy. It's not at all "ridiculous

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation "initiative"

2010-09-11 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 11.09.2010 um 20:27 schrieb Michiel Kamermans: > Hi Philipp, >>> and I personally jumped straight into xelatex because the internet told me >>> it was the only unicode-aware flavour of TeX >>> >> That is not correct, LuaTeX is Unicode-based as well. >> > > Sure, but LuaTeX wasn't aro

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation "initiative"

2010-09-12 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 12.09.2010 um 04:12 schrieb Will Robertson: > On 2010-09-12 05:11:54 +0930, Philipp Stephani said: > >> OpenType Math is still in a very early stage in XeTeX and has so many bugs >> that it is not ready for production use. > > Thanks for the vote of confidence.

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation "initiative"

2010-09-12 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 12.09.2010 um 10:22 schrieb Apostolos Syropoulos: >> greatly diminished. OpenType Math is still in a very early stage in XeTeX >> and >> has so many bugs that it is not ready for production use. > > I think this is a wrong statement: OpenType Math is by itself in early stage. > Only > two

Re: [XeTeX] wspr's realscripts & updated xelatex templates

2010-09-14 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 14.09.2010 um 16:44 schrieb Joel C. Salomon: > I’ve not been following the recent back-and-forth regarding which > XɘLaTeX packages are now obsolete, and which are compatible with LuaLaTeX. > > Right now my personal style files files have lines like these: > \ifxetex > \Re

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-26 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 26.09.2010 um 06:13 schrieb David Perry: > "Some editors, _mainly on Linux,_ support digraphs, two letters that are > combined into one [not on] character." The compose function is hardly ever > used on OS X or Windows; He doesn't refer to the Compose key, but to editor support, which is

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-26 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 26.09.2010 um 15:56 schrieb Axel Kielhorn: > Is the compose feature you mention the same as dead keys? No. Compose is a key available only from the X Window System. After hitting Compose (it is not a modifier key), you can enter a known key sequence to get a non-ASCII character; e.g., - - -

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-26 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 26.09.2010 um 15:56 schrieb Axel Kielhorn: >> Some operating systems or application offer "input systems" or "input >> methods" which allow to enter non-standard characters. >> >> XeTeX also supports UTF-16 encodings. \XeTeXdefaultencoding{CharsetName} and >> \XeTeXinputencoding{CharsetName}

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-26 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 26.09.2010 um 16:44 schrieb David Perry: >> On a Mac I can type \texttt{option-u u} to get an ü > Mac OS has the best systemwide support for non-English characters, and has > for a long time. Windows provides only a very awkward ALT key method that > requires typing decimal or hex numbers.

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-26 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 27.09.2010 um 01:16 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: > Abstract: lshort needs a chapter/section about Unicode on its own. >> From what I experience here, a lot of TeX users are so brain-washed to > use \v{c} and alike Well: this is the official way to enter the character č, as described in lshort.pdf,

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-27 Thread Philipp Stephani
- Ursprüngliche Mail > Von: Axel Kielhorn > An: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms > Gesendet: Montag, den 27. September 2010, 16:45:18 Uhr > Betreff: Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort > > > Am 26.09.2010 um 19:11 schrieb Michiel Kamermans: > > > Windows users use things li

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-27 Thread Philipp Stephani
- Ursprüngliche Mail > Von: Axel Kielhorn > An: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms > Gesendet: Montag, den 27. September 2010, 16:46:00 Uhr > Betreff: Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort > > > Am 26.09.2010 um 18:10 schrieb Peter Dyballa: > > > > > Am 26.09.2010 um 15:56 sc

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-28 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 28.09.2010 um 02:20 schrieb David J. Perry: > As a relative newcomer to Xe(La)TeX, and proponent of Unicode and > multilingual computing for 15+ years, I was very surprised by the lack of > Unicode support in the TeX world. I think what lshort and other tutorials > need is a very clear and

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-28 Thread 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 – the Unicode Emacs (and any of its variants

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-29 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 29.09.2010 um 21:26 schrieb Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd): > > > Tobias Schoel wrote: > >> I wouldn't recommend anything other than kile for linux users. for me it >> offers the fastest way of texing. >> >> I tried emacs when we got the task of learning and testing a bit of lisp >> in u

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-02 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 01.10.2010 um 08:25 schrieb Tobias Schoel: > Hi, > > of course, any document has structure and formatting, even plain txt-files > have. That's not the point. The point I made, and you wrote it yourself: > - In TeX you explicitly state the structure/format. In TeX you cannot state the struct

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-02 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 01.10.2010 um 00:49 schrieb Elliott Roper: >> As far a documentation is concerned look at the LaTeX Companion for packages. > ..and that's where I get a bit taken aback. The book arrives last Saturday. I > head for the Index for the bits I really need. > XeTeX - nada > fontspec - zip > Unicode

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-02 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 01.10.2010 um 00:14 schrieb 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. I didn't talk about American students. What I describe

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-02 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 30.09.2010 um 20:12 schrieb Elliott Roper: > What I'm lacking is a set of beginner documents that ties all the TeX zoo > together. Do I have to read source to find the definitive answer to which > package has what package as a pre-requisite? Yes, and that won't change until LaTeX becomes a s

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-02 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 30.09.2010 um 17:33 schrieb Axel Kielhorn: >> The attractiveness to using LaTeX to exchange documents (in the past, >> and to a large extent, even now) is that you can be sure that the >> source file can be read by your computer, even if you don't have the >> same fonts or language support (EOL

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-02 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 30.09.2010 um 16:01 schrieb Keith J. Schultz: > With Tex et al. the structure/formatting commands are in document verbatim. > When using TeX et al. you are more aware of what you are doing I don't know if that is really true. It's relatively easy to find out the current style of a character/p

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-02 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 30.09.2010 um 12:27 schrieb Keith J. Schultz: > The same should be true of xelshort. It should: I find your list very useful, but it seems to focus more on the differences between XeLaTeX and pdfLaTeX. What I have in mind is a document that should be readable for beginners who have never use

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-02 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 30.09.2010 um 09:36 schrieb Tobias Schoel: > Hi, > > there are three kinds of people who should learn TeX&Co: > - those who absolutely need TeX, because no other system let's them produce > the documents they have to (all this linguistis and co. [don't take offense, > I have no idea of the p

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-02 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 30.09.2010 um 00:42 schrieb Alan Munn: > > On Sep 29, 2010, at 5:59 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote: > >> >> Am 29.09.2010 um 23:40 schrieb Philipp Stephani: >> >>> reality is approximately as follows: Users who read beginner documents such >>> as ls

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-02 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 02.10.2010 um 21:22 schrieb Alan Munn: > On Oct 2, 2010, at 2:47 PM, Philipp Stephani wrote: > >> Am 30.09.2010 um 09:36 schrieb Tobias Schoel: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> there are three kinds of people who should learn TeX&Co: >>> - th

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-02 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 02.10.2010 um 21:52 schrieb Paul Isambert: > Le 02/10/2010 21:22, Alan Munn a écrit : >> On Oct 2, 2010, at 2:47 PM, Philipp Stephani wrote: >> >>> Am 30.09.2010 um 09:36 schrieb Tobias Schoel: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> ther

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-02 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 02.10.2010 um 23:56 schrieb Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd): > > > Philipp Stephani wrote: > >> Indeed I've already seen questions in LaTeX forums on how to achieve Word's >> math typesetting quality in LaTeX. > > Could you please c

Re: [XeTeX] hyperref broken??

2010-10-03 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 03.10.2010 um 06:12 schrieb David Perry: > I just updated MiKTeX; I noticed that both hyperref and memoir were included > in the update. Now my book (which uses memoir) won't compile. > > The following lines have been in my preamble for months without change: > > \usepackage[hypertex, >

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-03 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 03.10.2010 um 10:00 schrieb Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd): > > > Philipp Stephani wrote: > >> Here (in German): >> http://www.golatex.de/latex-mathe-font-fuer-bildschirm-t3664.html >> >> Although I have to admit that in that case the quality i

Re: [XeTeX] Problem changing default fonts

2010-10-03 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 03.10.2010 um 10:07 schrieb 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}) > > > Thi

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-03 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 03.10.2010 um 10:14 schrieb Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd): > > > Philipp Stephani wrote: > >> In TeX you cannot state the structure because TeX is a low-level > > typesetting system that offers only a few low-level primitives > > and a macro language.

Re: [XeTeX] hyperref broken??

2010-10-03 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 03.10.2010 um 14:02 schrieb David Perry: > Heiko, > > Thank you for the reply. > > On 10/3/2010 4:41 AM, Heiko Oberdiek wrote: > >> This is correct. XeTeX is used to generate PDF, `hypertex' is >> a driver for DVI mode. You can easily omit the option, because >> XeTeX is automatically detec

Re: [XeTeX] hyperref broken??

2010-10-03 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 03.10.2010 um 15:52 schrieb Will Robertson: > (Sent quickly. Please excuse brevity.) > > On 03/10/2010, at 11:41 PM, Philipp Stephani wrote: > >> Am 03.10.2010 um 14:02 schrieb David Perry: >> >>> If I omit the option, or use 'xetex' in place o

Re: [XeTeX] Very nasty bug with accented greek capitals in some fonts (TL 2010)

2010-10-05 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 05.10.2010 um 11:59 schrieb Nikos Platis: > Consider the following minimal file: > > --- > \documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article} > \usepackage{fontspec} > \setmainfont{Candara} > \begin{document} > ά Ά έ Έ ή Ή ί Ί ϊ Ϊ ΐ ό Ό ύ Ύ ϋ Ϋ ΰ ώ Ώ > \end{document} > --- > > Using a ful

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

2010-10-17 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 17.10.2010 um 08:25 schrieb Roland Kuhn: > > On Oct 17, 2010, at 00:53 , Herbert Schulz wrote: > >> >> On Oct 16, 2010, at 5:11 PM, Roland Kuhn wrote: >> >>> I wanted to try out different approaches to the french hyphenation problem >>> involving apostrophes, thereby including >>> >>> \u

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

2010-10-17 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 17.10.2010 um 11:27 schrieb Roland Kuhn: > > On Oct 17, 2010, at 11:04 , Philipp Stephani wrote: > >> >> Am 17.10.2010 um 08:25 schrieb Roland Kuhn: >> >>> >>> On Oct 17, 2010, at 00:53 , Herbert Schulz wrote: >>> >>>>

Re: [XeTeX] bug in fontspec?

2010-10-18 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 18.10.2010 um 19:21 schrieb Khaled Hosny: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 07:00:24PM +0200, Pablo Rodríguez wrote: >> Hi Will, Khaled and others, >> >> as Ulrike Fischer has noticed >> (http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2010-October/018895.html), fontspec >> enters in a loop italics are defined as sla

Re: [XeTeX] bug in fontspec?

2010-10-18 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 18.10.2010 um 20:09 schrieb Pablo Rodríguez: > On 10/18/2010 07:21 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 07:00:24PM +0200, Pablo Rodríguez wrote: >> [...] >> I have no idea how this would be fixed, but github issue tracker[1] is the >> proper place to report bug, at least to make

Re: [XeTeX] \textsuperscript and \textsubscript size

2010-11-06 Thread Philipp Stephani
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? minimal example please, latex.ltx does explicitly switch to the script size, but of course any package can override that --

Re: [XeTeX] accent circumflex with unicode-math

2010-11-22 Thread Philipp Stephani
- Ursprüngliche Mail > Von: Tobias Schoel > An: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms > Gesendet: Montag, den 22. November 2010, 7:18:19 Uhr > Betreff: [XeTeX] accent circumflex with unicode-math > > The accents have different width. This might be wanted in text mode, but

Re: [XeTeX] accent circumflex with unicode-math

2010-11-22 Thread Philipp Stephani
- Ursprüngliche Mail > Von: Khaled Hosny > An: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms > Gesendet: Montag, den 22. November 2010, 14:43:02 Uhr > Betreff: Re: [XeTeX] accent circumflex with unicode-math > > A bit simpler workaround that imitates TeX behaviour (unless someone