OOPS I meant to send this off-list. My apologies. K
>>> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 3:29 PM, in message <4cd81756.94ab.00c...@wlu.ca>, "Karljurgen Feuerherm" <kfeuerh...@wlu.ca> wrote: > Hi again, > > With respect to the problem you mentioned to me... I was speaking with the > colleague who put me on to Linux Libertine in the first place; he thinks it > may have to do with the fact that the ligatures are stored in the PUA, and > that consequently if another font is applied one might get the characters > reinterpreted with whatever other glyphs are in there. > > I don't know whether that is likely to be the case or not, but it's a > thought for you to pursue if you wish. > > best > > K > >>>> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 3:49 PM, in message > <6cc89569-309d-4c81-9143-e1c324001...@mq.edu.au>, Ross Moore > <ross.mo...@mq.edu.au> wrote: >> Hello Karljurgen, >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On 07/11/2010, at 2:51 AM, "Karljurgen Feuerherm" <kfeuerh...@wlu.ca> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I have a peculiar problem that's driving me crazy. >>> >>> I'm using a MacBook Pro under Snow Leopard and MacTex, installed a few >>> months back. >>> >>> I have a XeTeX source file (see below) which compiled fine, and >>> produced a nice PDF. I then copied four lines from the PDF and pasted >>> them into MS Word so I could run a character count. >> >> Why use Word for the character count? >> In a terminal, the wc command will do this, returning the number of lines, >> words and characters. >> E.g. wc myfile.tex will give these numbers. >> Or if your sources have lots of TeX macros, then copy from the PDF and paste > >> into a TextEdit document, or into any text editor application and save as >> text. >> Then run wc on that. >> >> Just keep clear of Word, when you don't really need it. >> >> >>> Word told me there >>> was a problem (Bad Font) with the font (Linux Libertine O) and that it >>> would try to disable the font. >>> >>> Thanks >> >> Thank you for sharing this experience. >> By the way, if Libertine is your font, and you are extracting text from >> PDFs, would you please check a problem that someone else reported recently. >> This was concerning ligatures not copying correctly; the ff fi fl ffl ffi >> ligatures would not paste as the separate letters, from Acrobat Reader as > the >> PDF browser, but as capitals U, V, ... according to their glyph position in >> the Type1 font. This was using dvips+gs and the libertine.sty package, > rather >> than XeTeX, but it would be good to have evidence that it works fine using >> other methods. >> >>> >>> K >> >> Hope this helps, >> >> Ross >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: >> http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
