Hi James, On 22/12/2010, at 9:56 AM, James Crippen wrote:
> I’m using ExPex (not yet in CTAN, http://www.math.neu.edu/ling/tex/) > for linguistic examples in XeLaTeX and I’ve encountered a bad > interaction between it and unicode-math. Here’s a Minimal Working > Example™: > > - - - cut here - - - > > \documentclass{article} > \usepackage{fontspec} > \usepackage{unicode-math} > \usepackage{expex} I don't have the expex package, but can still tell you the cause of the problem. In unicode-math-table.tex there is a line: \UnicodeMathSymbol{"02AA5}{\gla }{\mathrel}{greater-than beside less-than}% I don't know why the macro is called \gla here, but I would be even more critical of the expex package for its use of short macro names for complicated tasks. The risk of a clash with another package, using the same name quite naturally for a symbol (as here) or letter o in a foreign language, is just too great. I'd object to all these macro names in your example: \pex \a \gla \glb \glc \xe and the \begingl \endgl should be done as \begin{gl} and \end{gl} else there can be complications when combined with other LaTeX environments. Furthermore, I'd advise against it being accepted at CTAN until these issues are fixed properly. > > \begin{document} > > \pex > \a > \begingl > \gla mea mater sus mala est / > \glb my mother pig bad is / > \glc{‘my mother is a bad pig’} > \endgl > \a > \begingl > \gla mea mater sus mala est / > \glb wander mother pig apple eats / > \glc{‘wander, mother, the pig is eating the apples’} > \endgl > \xe > > \end{document} Now having said everything above, your easiest workaround is to adjust the preamble as follows: >> \documentclass{article} >> \usepackage{fontspec} >> \usepackage{unicode-math} >> \let\gla\relax >> \usepackage{expex} or as >> \documentclass{article} >> \usepackage{fontspec} >> \usepackage{expex} >> \let\expexgla\gla >> \usepackage{unicode-math} >> \let\gla\expexgla At least one of these should work to skip over the problem, provided you do not also want to use \gla as a math character. Other macro names may need to be treated similarly. Without the expex.sty package, I cannot tell. > > - - - cut here - - - > > To get the correct output, comment out the \usepackage{unicode-math}. > The wrong result is that line breaking fails to occur and the / shows > up in the output. > > There is another incorrect output that I am having trouble getting an > MWE to show. In this case the beginning of a multiline example (the > thing started by \begingl) has the characters "><" at the beginning of > the first line. I think this may be something inside of ExPex’s > crossreference tagging (it uses <...> for xref tags) but I haven’t > figured it out. > > Can someone who knows unicode-math figure out what is going wrong? I’d > like to be able to use that package but this buggy interaction is > preventing me because I need ExPex more than I do unicode-math. > > I am reporting this here because although it’s likely that there is > some assumption in ExPex being violated, I think people who work on > unicode-math are more likely to figure it out than the ExPex > maintainer. > > Thanks, > James Crippen Hope this helps, Ross ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ross Moore ross.mo...@mq.edu.au Mathematics Department office: E7A-419 Macquarie University tel: +61 (0)2 9850 8955 Sydney, Australia 2109 fax: +61 (0)2 9850 8114 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
