[XeTeX] gloss-russian.ldf bug

2010-05-25 Thread Vadim Radionov
Dear all, After upgrade to version [2010/03/23 v1.1.1] of polyglossia, i cannot switch the family of what comes to running head: compare this and the same without \setdefaultlanguage{russian} \documentclass{book} \usepackage{polyglossia} \setdefaultlanguage{russian} \setmainfont{CharterITC} \make

Re: [XeTeX] gloss-russian.ldf bug

2010-05-26 Thread Vadim Radionov
Thank you, Ulrike and Vladimir, Setting \russianfont to nothing solves the problem. But is there any reason to pass this assignment to the user? Vadim On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Ulrike Fischer wrote: > Am Wed, 26 May 2010 13:56:33 +0900 schrieb Vladimir Lomov: > > > ** Va

Re: [XeTeX] Question about polyglossia and babel

2010-05-31 Thread Vadim Radionov
Vladimir, You know, that Russian babel short-hands do slightly more than just insert a glyph from the font: they adjust the spacing around the em-dash (and the length of the dash, too), and allow hyphenation of adjacent words (in case of hyphens). So even in the case of Unicode input we need some

[XeTeX] latin numerals in Russian

2010-06-29 Thread Vadim Radionov
Dear all, What is the right way to change Russian numerals produced by \alph{subsection} to latin? I'm trying to do it with \setdefaultlanguage[numerals=latin]{russian} with no effect. This option is not mentioned in the manual, but there's some code in gloss-russian.ldf that is probably assumed

Re: [XeTeX] latin numerals in Russian

2010-06-29 Thread Vadim Radionov
wrote: > ** Vadim Radionov [2010-06-29 15:30:12 +0400]: > > > Dear all, > > > > What is the right way to change Russian numerals produced by > > \alph{subsection} to latin? I'm trying to do it with > > \setdefaultlanguage[numerals=latin]{russian} with no

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

2010-10-04 Thread Vadim Radionov
Dear all, I installed texlive-2010 recently (parallel to my old texlive tree). With new xelatex processing goes considerably slower (about 5 times). And, even worse, i've got wrong kerning (with coexisting older version = XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996-patch1 (Web2C 7.5.6) everything still wor

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

2010-10-10 Thread Vadim Radionov
Hello again, I would be very grateful if someone help me with this problem. Two examples of (presumably) right (test1.pdf) and wrong (test.pdf) kerning are attached. What can be done to investigate and fix it? Thank you in advance Vadim On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Vadim Radionov wrote

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

2010-10-10 Thread Vadim Radionov
Hi, Peter, Sorry for annoying citing (I was not sure how to post to the same thread rather then to start a new one, so i replied to my own messafe) and whitespace. > Instead of citing the whole old message it could have been interesting to > see the different sources which lead to so different ou

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

2010-10-10 Thread Vadim Radionov
> Do Cyrillic small capital letters exist? I would have thought they're > typical Latin... Only few cyrillic letter have different capital shapes, probably that's why they are no so popular. Anyway, many perfect modern fonts have them. > I don't have fontspec version 2.x around, but Will wrote th

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

2010-10-11 Thread Vadim Radionov
Hi, Vladimir, My question was not about kerning in this commercial font. It was about 2 instances of xetex that gave 2 different result. And i asked how i can figure out what's wrong with one of them (texlive 2010). >> also gives good kerning with xetex > I don't understand here. Kerning is alway

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

2010-10-12 Thread Vadim Radionov
Hi, Vladimir, Thank you for your assistance. > Ok. you could check if this problem of engine or driver (xdvipdfmx) in > following way: > 1. Make pdf with xetex from TL2009: >  $ xetex test.tex > Save pdf as, for example, test_2009.pdf > > 2. Make pdf with xetex from TL2010: >  $ xetex test.tex >

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

2010-10-12 Thread Vadim Radionov
xdvipdfmx -vv for both cases log-old Description: Binary data log-tl2010 Description: Binary data -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

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

2010-10-12 Thread Vadim Radionov
Hi, Vladimir, > From you results I could deduce that something wrong goes with xetex > from TL2010. You could enable kpathsea debugging and record used files > (-recorder, -kpathsea-debug=1 or 2 or 3, but beware it will generate a > lot of outout) to compare them. I am not so sure now. Before I

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

2010-10-12 Thread Vadim Radionov
Hi, Vladimir, > From you results I could deduce that something wrong goes with xetex > from TL2010. You could enable kpathsea debugging and record used files > (-recorder, -kpathsea-debug=1 or 2 or 3, but beware it will generate a > lot of outout) to compare them. I did this and found nothing sus

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

2010-10-12 Thread Vadim Radionov
Hi, Peter, > IMO it looks like some bug somewhere. This could be XeTeX and this could be > xdvipdfmx. Create, empty page, one XDV file with TL '09 and another one with > TL '10. By "patching" the XDV files you could disassemble with, for example, > dvitype, because they are very DVI-sh. (Or send t

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

2010-10-13 Thread Vadim Radionov
> XeTeX does not work correctly, it stumbles over an error. What makes you > assume that the output could then be correct? Sorry, I missed it. Where was the error -- except for wrong kerning in the output? > BTW, texlive/2010/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf is the configuration file read by > *TeX utiliti

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

2010-10-13 Thread Vadim Radionov
I finally found the explanation. Mea culpa, it was in the kerning in the font. All 3 lookup tables contained kerning -50 for small caps Cyrillic `t' and `a', and the was another one of -60 in kerning classes, which gave the total of -210. I'm not sure if it is allowed and what should be the defaul

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

2010-10-13 Thread Vadim Radionov
> Are all those lookup tables assigned to the 'kern' feature within the same > script and language system? If so, then they're cumulative. If the lookups > are each assigned to a different script/language, then they shouldn't all be > applied at the same time. Thank you, Jonathan, Yes, they we

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

2010-10-18 Thread Vadim Radionov
Hi, Jonathan, I asked my font vendor and they explained that when specific kerning pair accompanies a kerning class, it work as "class exception" rather than a correction to the kerning for classes. There are several words about it in Opentype specification. (Unfortunately, I didn't find anything

Re: [XeTeX] Problems with spacing in math formulae

2010-10-19 Thread Vadim Radionov
> I can reproduce it and while ago have seen it in a posted sample > somewhere on the web. I don't know what is special about Euler's > display summation to trigger such a bug (if it is actually a bug), text > style summation is just fine. In displaystyle, the sub- and superscripts are exactly on

[XeTeX] WordSpace in SizeFeatures

2010-10-27 Thread Vadim Radionov
Dear list members, Is it possible to set different interword space for different font sizes? I tried the following, but it doesn't work. \documentclass{book} \usepackage{polyglossia} \setmainfont[SizeFeatures={{Size=-10,LetterSpace=-10,WordSpace={20,1,1}},{Size=10-,WordSpace={1.1,1,1}}}]{TeX Gyre

Re: [XeTeX] WordSpace in SizeFeatures

2010-10-28 Thread Vadim Radionov
-10-27 22:11:47 +1030, Vadim Radionov > said: > >> Is it possible to set different interword space for different font >> sizes? >> SizeFeatures={ >> {Size=-10,LetterSpace=-10,WordSpace={20,1,1}}, >> {Size=10-,WordSpace={1.1,1,1}}} > > I am afraid that t

[XeTeX] Fonts in running heads

2010-10-30 Thread Vadim Radionov
Dear all, I once again have a problem with fonts in running heads, but the previous recipe doesn't work now. Can you clarify for me what's happening? With \setdefaultlanguage{russian} the footer on the first page is set in sans-serif font (which is active when the page is being output) while with

Re: [XeTeX] Fonts in running heads

2010-10-30 Thread Vadim Radionov
Thank you, Khaled. Now I probably understand how to set it correctly -- until next case. As a side-effect, compilation now goes way faster! Vadim On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 08:08:41PM +0400, Vadim Radionov wrote: >> Dear all, >

[XeTeX] combined accents

2010-11-30 Thread Vadim Radionov
Dear all, Excuse me for raising similar question again. I'm trying to typeset acute over amacron (u+0101 u+0301; \' u+0101; a u+0304 u+0301) and the result is satisfying only with DejaVu font. What is the right way to type it? What should I change in other fonts (I need the last one, actually) fo

Re: [XeTeX] combined accents

2010-12-01 Thread Vadim Radionov
rds (negative kern value) and put it in a raisebox.  That is a big > nuisance, of course. > > David > > - Original Message - From: "Vadim Radionov" > > To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" > Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 7:4

[XeTeX] hyphenmins for default language

2010-12-06 Thread Vadim Radionov
Dear all, Consider the following example. The default value of righthyphenmin (2 in Russian) depends on the order in which language declarations occur: just transpose lines 4 and 5. Is it OK? Yours, Vadim \documentclass{book} \usepackage{xltxtra} \usepackage{polyglossia} \setdefaultlanguage{ru

[XeTeX] What kind of effect is that?

2010-12-09 Thread Vadim Radionov
Dear all, I have a weird effect trying to print the text typeset with xelatex in Newton (proprietary) font. Everything looks fine on the screen (in Adobe Reader or other viewer), but on the print (from Acroread or by lpr with CUPS) some letters appear shrunk to some noticeable factor (scanned ima

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

2010-12-15 Thread Vadim Radionov
Hi, Peter, I made several tests: I tried several drivers that go with Ubuntu 10.4, accessing the printer over LAN and connected directly to my laptop. (The best for this document was "HP LaserJet 2300 Foomatic/Postscript".) The effect depends mostly on the resolution set when printing -- the eff

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

2011-02-27 Thread Vadim Radionov
Will, Thank you for this patch, i've been waiting for it since months ago. Yours, Vadim On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Will Robertson wrote: > On 2011-02-20 03:51:03 +1030, msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca said: > > Manually setting \fontdimen3 and \fontdimen4 seems to correctly change the >> spa

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

2011-02-27 Thread Vadim Radionov
But still there are things to be improved. If i want to change WordSpace locally, I have to add some other dummy feature (say, LetterSpace=0), or this change of inter-word space will be applied globally to the current font. Vadim On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Vadim Radionov wrote: > W

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

2011-02-27 Thread Vadim Radionov
er feature uses another instance of the same font, which can have different fontdimens -- but that's exactly what i want. Yours, Vadim On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Will Robertson wrote: > On 27/02/2011, at 8:12 PM, Vadim Radionov wrote: > > > But still there are things to b

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

2011-02-28 Thread Vadim Radionov
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Will Robertson wrote: > On 27/02/2011, at 8:12 PM, Vadim Radionov wrote: > > > But still there are things to be improved. If i want to change WordSpace > locally, I have to add > > some other dummy feature (say, LetterSpace=0), or this change

[XeTeX] tif inclusion

2011-06-06 Thread Vadim Radionov
Dear all, Is it possible to include tif images with xelatex and graphics.sty ? I tried with the one saved from GIMP with no compression, lzw and others; xelatex finds the file, but shows 3 error messages: - ! Unable to load picture or PDF file 'figs-test/test-gimp-2.t

Re: [XeTeX] tif inclusion

2011-06-06 Thread Vadim Radionov
Thank you, Martin, Sorry for off-topic: is is true that compression from tif to png (with imagemagic) is lossless? Yours, Vadim On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Martin Schröder wrote: > 2011/6/6 Vadim Radionov : > > Is it possible to include tif images with xelatex and graphics.sty ?

[XeTeX] mathspec and polyglossia

2012-03-08 Thread Vadim Radionov
Dear list members, I have a problem using mathspec with Greek key together with polyglossia with some languages, probably those using " shorthands. Check the following example (with and without (Greek) or Russian language selection): \documentclass{minimal} \usepackage{mathspec} \setmathsfont(Dig

Re: [XeTeX] mathspec and polyglossia

2012-03-09 Thread Vadim Radionov
thout "-shorthands or > without mathspec. It's probably easier to work without mathspec, if you can > work with unicode-math instead (saying: you can use a suitable font). > > > On 08.03.2012 22:43, Vadim Radionov wrote: > >> Dear list members, >> >> I hav

[XeTeX] LetterSpace and line breaking

2013-05-14 Thread Vadim Radionov
Dear list memers, I encountered a problem: setting LetterSpace parameter somehow breaks line breaking mechanism. Consider the following example (in Russian); the 1st variant without \mbox has obvious break point missed. (I'm aware that letter spacing is strongly discouraged in English texts, supp

Re: [XeTeX] LetterSpace and line breaking

2013-05-15 Thread Vadim Radionov
; 2013/5/14 Vadim Radionov : > > Dear list memers, > > > > I encountered a problem: setting LetterSpace parameter somehow breaks > line > > breaking mechanism. Consider the following example (in Russian); the 1st > > variant without \mbox has obvious break point mi

Re: [XeTeX] Khmer font problem

2013-06-03 Thread Vadim Radionov
Thank you, Khaled! I'll wait for TL'2013 release. Regards, Vadim On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 12:54:41PM +0400, Vadim Radionov wrote: > > Dear list members, > > > > I'm working on a Khmer dictionary (lacki