Am 19.02.2011 um 19:57 schrieb msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca:
Instead of exotic fonts you can use from TeX Live 2010 the GNU
Freefonts in:
No, I can't. The document in question is a type specimen, and
written in
a mixture of English and Japanese. Using a different font would
defeat
the entire purpose; ...
My suggestion was not that you change the font for productive work but
that you (and we) can test your theory of the different behaviour of
TT and OT fonts. Which I could not find.
But even if I pretend that the GNU FreeFonts are acceptable, when I
try it
with the OTF version of FreeMono XeTeX still makes the interword space
stretchable after each LaTeX size command. Do you have an
installation
that does not do that - where you can use a plain LaTeX font size
command
and have the interword space afterward be scaled to the new size but
NOT
stretchable?
No. I tested all the mono-spaced fonts that are available at the
moment. The TT font Lucida Sans Typewriter behaves like the others.
A major goal of XeTeX is to support languages other than English -
including languages such as Japanese that are written in the Han
script.
地球の人々は全部英語を読みません。Typesetting in
such languages is
traditionally monospace; "don't use monospace fonts" or "accept that
spacing will be stretchable and therefore wrong when you use monospace
fonts" are not limitations XeTeX can sustain. "You must reset the
spacing
after every size change" is a workaround I can live with in the short
term, but it is not a solution.
It seems clear to me that this is a bug, though I'm not sure yet
whether
it's better considered as a bug in the XeTeX engine or in the fontspec
package, because it's not clear where the stretchability is being set.
A fix is desirable – have you tested zhspacing (http://code.google.com/p/zhspacing/
)? Maybe it has a solution for you...
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Greetings
Pete
A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no
longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take
away.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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