Dear Sri Wagner, I am not very sure what all I did, but now it is coming properly. I got the text and everything seems to have come as intended, except some overflow on the right margin which I will have to correct manually. But this is a big relief for me since I was struggling under the weight of aleph for a long time.
Thank you all the same and warm regards from the tropics. Sasi On 28/06/2014, xetex-requ...@tug.org <xetex-requ...@tug.org> wrote: > Send XeTeX mailing list submissions to > xetex@tug.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > xetex-requ...@tug.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > xetex-ow...@tug.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of XeTeX digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Problem with Malayalam book class using xelatex (Sasi Kumar) > 2. Re: Problem with Malayalam book class using xelatex > (Zdenek Wagner) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 21:36:21 +0530 > From: Sasi Kumar <sasi....@gmail.com> > To: xetex <xetex@tug.org> > Subject: [XeTeX] Problem with Malayalam book class using xelatex > Message-ID: > <caozpsvs8o1xxbijjlgdfj3sf3-klhvjea2ht_14mupt5xm0...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hello everyone, > > I had written a book using aleph and it was compiling properly till I > changed my laptop and installed everything afresh. Then it developed > several problems, some of which I could solve with help. But there > still remained some problem and finally, I decided to use xelatex. > Thus, I modified the code to suit xelatex and compiled. It compiled > without any error and gave a pdf output. But the pdf file contained > only boxes and no text. I used my favourite Rachana font with old > style letters. I am giving the entire preamble below. Could someone > tell me what I could be doing wrong? I have Rachana installed on my > system and use it to create documents occasionally with Libre Office. > In fact, I have been usng xelatex with Rachana font for writing > articles without any problem. Thus this looks rather strange! > > Thank you in advance for any help. > > Regards, > Sasi > > My preamble: > > \documentclass[a5paper,11pt,openany]{book} > \oddsidemargin=-1in > \topmargin=-1in > \usepackage{graphicx} > \let\footruleskip\undefined > \usepackage{fancyhdr} > \usepackage{multicol} > \usepackage[paperheight=22.225cm,,paperwidth=14.2875cm,lmargin=15mm,tmargin=20mm]{geometry} > \textheight=16cm > \textwidth=11cm > \usepackage{url} > \usepackage{polyglossia} > \newfontfamily \mayalamfont[Script=Malayalam]{Rachana} > \setromanfont{DejaVu Serif} > > \usepackage{makeidx} > \usepackage{caption} > \setcounter{tocdepth}{0} > \usepackage{balance} > \makeatletter > \def\thickhrule{\leavevmode \leaders \hrule height 1ex \hfill \kern \z@} > \def\position{\centering} > > \renewcommand{\@makechapterhead}[1]{% > \vspace*{10\p@}% > {\parindent \z@ \position \reset@font > {\centering\LARGE \thechapter . #1} > \par\nobreak > \vspace*{5\p@}% > \interlinepenalty\@M > \par\nobreak > \vspace*{2\p@}% > \vskip 5mm > }} > \makeatother > > \makeatletter > > \renewcommand\chapter{% > \vskip 25mm > \@afterindentfalse > \secdef\@chapter\@schapter} > \makeatother > > \makeatletter > \renewcommand\section{\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@}% > {-3.5ex \@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}% > {2.3ex \@plus.2ex}% > {\normalfont}} > \makeatother > \setlength{\parindent}{8mm} > \newcommand{\dash}{\raisebox{2pt}{\rule{3mm}{0.5pt}}} > \newcommand{\chem}[1]{\ensuremath\mathrm{#1}} > \lefthyphenmin=3 > \righthyphenmin=3 > \setlength{\parskip}{0cm} > > \makeindex > \pagenumbering{roman} > \def\thepage{{ \roman{page}}} > > \makeatletter > \DeclareOldFontCommand{\rm}{\normalfont\rmfamily}{\mathrm} > \DeclareOldFontCommand{\sf}{\normalfont\sffamily}{\mathsf} > \DeclareOldFontCommand{\tt}{\normalfont\ttfamily}{\mathtt} > \DeclareOldFontCommand{\bf}{\normalfont\bfseries}{\mathbf} > \DeclareOldFontCommand{\it}{\normalfont\itshape}{\mathit} > \DeclareOldFontCommand{\sl}{\normalfont\slshape}{\@nomath\sl} > \DeclareOldFontCommand{\sc}{\normalfont\scshape}{\@nomath\sc} > \makeatother > %================================ BODY =================================== > > \begin{document} > > -- > V. Sasi Kumar > Free Software Foundation of India > Please see: http://swatantryam.blogspot.com/ > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 18:48:29 +0200 > From: Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wag...@gmail.com> > To: "XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion." <xetex@tug.org> > Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Problem with Malayalam book class using xelatex > Message-ID: > <cac1phyy-pjot4psgaygao4limwytbq8+kelyjqkobwmzndc...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" > > Namaste Sasi, > > could you send me a sample document, not just a preamble? I do have Rachana > installed but I do not know Malayalam, I need something to test. > > > 2014-06-27 18:06 GMT+02:00 Sasi Kumar <sasi....@gmail.com>: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> I had written a book using aleph and it was compiling properly till I >> changed my laptop and installed everything afresh. Then it developed >> several problems, some of which I could solve with help. But there >> still remained some problem and finally, I decided to use xelatex. >> Thus, I modified the code to suit xelatex and compiled. It compiled >> without any error and gave a pdf output. But the pdf file contained >> only boxes and no text. I used my favourite Rachana font with old >> style letters. I am giving the entire preamble below. Could someone >> tell me what I could be doing wrong? I have Rachana installed on my >> system and use it to create documents occasionally with Libre Office. >> In fact, I have been usng xelatex with Rachana font for writing >> articles without any problem. Thus this looks rather strange! >> >> Thank you in advance for any help. >> >> Regards, >> Sasi >> >> My preamble: >> >> \documentclass[a5paper,11pt,openany]{book} >> \oddsidemargin=-1in >> \topmargin=-1in >> \usepackage{graphicx} >> \let\footruleskip\undefined >> \usepackage{fancyhdr} >> \usepackage{multicol} >> >> \usepackage[paperheight=22.225cm,,paperwidth=14.2875cm,lmargin=15mm,tmargin=20mm]{geometry} >> \textheight=16cm >> \textwidth=11cm >> \usepackage{url} >> \usepackage{polyglossia} >> \newfontfamily \mayalamfont[Script=Malayalam]{Rachana} >> \setromanfont{DejaVu Serif} >> >> \usepackage{makeidx} >> \usepackage{caption} >> \setcounter{tocdepth}{0} >> \usepackage{balance} >> \makeatletter >> \def\thickhrule{\leavevmode \leaders \hrule height 1ex \hfill \kern \z@} >> \def\position{\centering} >> >> \renewcommand{\@makechapterhead}[1]{% >> \vspace*{10\p@}% >> {\parindent \z@ \position \reset@font >> {\centering\LARGE \thechapter . #1} >> \par\nobreak >> \vspace*{5\p@}% >> \interlinepenalty\@M >> \par\nobreak >> \vspace*{2\p@}% >> \vskip 5mm >> }} >> \makeatother >> >> \makeatletter >> >> \renewcommand\chapter{% >> \vskip 25mm >> \@afterindentfalse >> \secdef\@chapter\@schapter} >> \makeatother >> >> \makeatletter >> \renewcommand\section{\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@}% >> {-3.5ex \@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}% >> {2.3ex \@plus.2ex}% >> {\normalfont}} >> \makeatother >> \setlength{\parindent}{8mm} >> \newcommand{\dash}{\raisebox{2pt}{\rule{3mm}{0.5pt}}} >> \newcommand{\chem}[1]{\ensuremath\mathrm{#1}} >> \lefthyphenmin=3 >> \righthyphenmin=3 >> \setlength{\parskip}{0cm} >> >> \makeindex >> \pagenumbering{roman} >> \def\thepage{{ \roman{page}}} >> >> \makeatletter >> \DeclareOldFontCommand{\rm}{\normalfont\rmfamily}{\mathrm} >> \DeclareOldFontCommand{\sf}{\normalfont\sffamily}{\mathsf} >> \DeclareOldFontCommand{\tt}{\normalfont\ttfamily}{\mathtt} >> \DeclareOldFontCommand{\bf}{\normalfont\bfseries}{\mathbf} >> \DeclareOldFontCommand{\it}{\normalfont\itshape}{\mathit} >> \DeclareOldFontCommand{\sl}{\normalfont\slshape}{\@nomath\sl} >> \DeclareOldFontCommand{\sc}{\normalfont\scshape}{\@nomath\sc} >> \makeatother >> %================================ BODY >> =================================== >> >> \begin{document} >> >> -- >> V. 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