Christopher Creutzig said this at Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:55:41 +0200:
Salvete,
since mail directly to Adam Lindsay does not seem to get through (I
never got a reply, even when asking if it had got through, so I'm
assuming it didn't), sorry to everyone not interested in XeTeX.
After upgrading
not entirely accurate, but XeTeX now supports 85% of the important
dvipdfmx specials, so the next spec-xtx will inherit from dvipdfmx.
best,
adam
Christopher Creutzig said this at Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:55:41 +0200:
Salvete,
since mail directly to Adam Lindsay does not seem to get through (I
Nikolai Weibull said this at Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:32:23 +0200:
I'm sorry to barge in on this discussion, but this XeTeX thing? Are you
running Mac OS X to use it, or is there an easy way to get it working on
UN*X? I tried finding information on setting it up on UN*X, but it
didn't seem there was
Hans Hagen said this at Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:50:07 +0200:
how exactly do you define a font:
Hoefler Text: Ligatures=Diphthongs at 10pt
This first one, thank goodness.
It complicates some of your more sophisticated font-handling macros (such
as not being able to say \showfont[Hoefler Text],
Hi Hans, Victor, all.
I've been feeling the Unicode love with XeTeX, and I explored lang-* as a
major test case for internationalised text. I uncovered a few bugs along
the way.
In OpenType fonts, \i doesn't compose well with accents, unlike normal
TeX fonts. Therefore a couple more definitions
Adam Lindsay said this at Thu, 21 Oct 2004 08:15:14 +0100:
I had the toughest time getting strings like \v!january to switch
language. I found that this change (from \currentmainlanguage) fixed the
inability to \ShowLanguageValues. In lang-lab:
\def\labellanguage{\defaultlanguage\currentlanguage
Sebastian Sturm said this at Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:03:05 +0200:
I'd like to access Fourier's upright greek
alphabet, especially the large omega. However, the font including that
character doesn't seem to be used in math-fou.tex.
I'm not a big fourier user, but the key is with the definition of
Mojca Miklavec said this at Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:10:46 +0200:
Thanks a lot to both of you. It finally works. The line I had to change
was in miktex.ini. (I never had to bother about MikTeX specific issues
till now and I didn't expect the problem to lie so deep in the system.)
I found it bad to
Hans Hagen said this at Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:33:19 +0200:
if ( $TeXExecutable =~ /etex|
eetex|pdfetex|pdfeetex|pdfxtex|xpdfetex|eomega|aleph/io ) {
$TeXPrefix = *;
}
Mind adding xetex to that list on your next release? :)
--
Nikolai Weibull said this at Fri, 3 Sep 2004 17:34:35 +0200:
At least some of the glyphs came out alright, but a lot of them are
missing. For the rest I get little gray squares.
I think you're going to have to convert a lot more than just the U+30xx
vector... Japanese covers a whole lot of
Steffen Wolfrum said this at Fri, 20 Aug 2004 20:57:05 +0200:
Well, I'd love to use aleph - no doubt! But, as I work with MacOS(X)
I fear I have to find a solution that will work for pdfetex.
Could someone help me?
Hmm. What's your timeframe?
I'm working on XeTeX drivers for ConTeXt that
Henning Hraban Ramm said this at Sat, 21 Aug 2004 20:37:18 +0200:
Am 21.08.2004 um 20:04 schrieb Adam Lindsay:
For those not aware, XeTeX is a very interesting eTeX variant that
hooks
into MacOSX's advanced typography. It's Unicode-native, and uses native
Mac fonts without any TeXFont-y
Mats Broberg said this at Sun, 25 Jul 2004 12:01:03 +0200:
- I don't quite understand how ConTeXt:ers deal with solid PMS spot
colours
Mats, have a look at:
http://pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/msplit.pdf
Disclaimer: I haven't used spot colours yet, but I know it's in a manual. :)
--
Hans Hagen said this at Thu, 15 Jul 2004 08:42:18 +0200:
i will do that once i have made an xml alternative of the underlying
styles (interface)
Ooh, I'll definitely be interested in that.
also, i will use this demo to show apple that some pdf work is is needed
on the mac -)
heh, good. I, for
Don't be discouraged, Matt.
I think your tool is really nifty--it's precisely one of those if I have
time, I'll learn about VPLs projects that I wanted to have realised at
some point. Your solution goes far beyond the FontSite500 support, as far
as I can see.
cheers,
adam
Matt Gushee said this
Hans Hagen said this at Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:46:52 +0200:
if you're happy with type-flx (we can make a synonym btw)
Oh, no synonym needed for my part (not deployed in a major project).
Are you happy with the approach? Do you reckon the 5.16667pt and 6.0pt x-
height will be sufficient? (Lucida in
Hey Patrick, all,
I like the wiki a lot. Thanks for getting it going! It's a nice, quick
way to get hints out there.
As a result, I wrote up a little font-usage hack that wasn't quite big
enough for a MyWay, but that I wanted to share with folks:
Found this in my archives. Is that sufficient, or (ick) does the table float?
adam
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Henning Hraban Ramm said this at Thu, 27 May 2004 18:15:05 +0200:
I'd be glad if you could write together these tricks.
But my installation is so messy (Fink stuff, a lot of self-compiled
stuff and several different ports stuff...) that I probably should wait
until I set up a clean Panther
Hans Hagen said this at Wed, 26 May 2004 19:16:17 +0200:
At 18:39 26/05/2004, you wrote:
Hans Hagen said this at Wed, 26 May 2004 18:23:16 +0200:
great! i'll see if i can hook in my menus and thingies
Your menus and thingies in (public) ConTeXt are already there. I actually
stuck them in the
Helmut Schwertner said this at Tue, 25 May 2004 20:24:58 +0200:
the example further down works fine with the latex standard fonts and
e.g. eulervm, but not with fourier. Could somebody help me?
Hello, Helmut:
Try adding the following lines. They would normally go into math-fou.tex.
Hi all.
I've revisited the euler support scripts with an eye towards bold math. I
think I have it right now.
I tried applying the same techniques to computer-modern math in order to
get bold math going for the TeX default font, and it seems not to switch
back to the right font after a grouped
Adam Lindsay said this at Thu, 1 Apr 2004 11:52:54 +0100:
When I do \showfont[zd], however, I see something resembling
Unicode vector 0x27nn. All it would take is a re-encoding to put the
glyphs in the right place.
Hey, does this PDF file work for everyone?
No fonts are embedded in its 19Kb
:
It works on a PC with Windows XP and AcrobatReader 6.0, looks great.
Willi
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 01.04.04, um 19:07 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Adam Lindsay:
Hey, does this PDF file work for everyone?
No fonts are embedded in its 19Kb, but it gives a good outline of what's
Stefan Wachter said this at Wed, 31 Mar 2004 18:17:29 +0200:
thanks for the help. After extracting the typescript code into a
seperate typescript file everything works fine!
Ah, I remembered what Patrick did, now:
\usetypescript[adobekb][texnansi]
\usetypescript[times][texnansi]
Also, Steffen (and other Mac OS X users):
Check out the most recent version of the PDF plug-in here:
http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/
Although it's a for-pay product, it handles links (and therefore in-
browser navigation of the Pragma site!) pretty well, now.
I also found the fifteen.pdf
Hans Hagen said this at Mon, 29 Mar 2004 20:38:51 +0200:
Check out the most recent version of the PDF plug-in here:
http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/
Although it's a for-pay product, it handles links (and therefore in-
browser navigation of the Pragma site!) pretty well, now.
interesting
Henning Hraban Ramm said this at Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:00:41 +0200:
Hm, it *is* a pay-product, but only for company use:
PDF Browser Plugin 2 is free for private use at home
for not-for-profit activities and for use at educational
institutions for not-for-profit activities.
Very true! I use it as
Otared Kavian said this at Tue, 2 Mar 2004 10:18:52 +0100:
We need your help in tracking down a possible bug with the
Apple Preview.app when printing the Metafun manual (pdf)
Indeed. I got the same blurry. results... Otared, be sure to fill out the
survey at the website with your printer
Otared Kavian said this at Tue, 2 Mar 2004 12:11:44 +0100:
In other, related news, I notice that Apple's Preview.app has trouble
with ConTeXt-generated (er, pdfTeX, I suppose) bookmarks. They appear
fine, but the bookmarks, when clicked, don't go to the right places.
Bookmarks from other sources
Otared Kavian said this at Tue, 2 Mar 2004 17:26:51 +0100:
Actually I tried the file with a slight modification (see below) and
I don't see, regarding the clickability of the resulting pdf file,
any difference between what happens in Acrobat 6 and Preview.app
OK, I'm still not making myself
Thanks. The \doifmode as one of the tokens to prepend seems to work!
adam
Hans Hagen said this at Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:12:47 +0100:
At 12:35 10/02/2004, you wrote:
\doifmode {atl} {\LocalSetup[interaction,sansheadings]}
Where should I put it?
normally, in your cont-sys.tex, or, in cont-sys.tex
:41 AM, Adam Lindsay quoted Hans
Hagen saying:
- i still have to find something that cannot be done in tex (apart from
page by page made up documents but that's a different game anyway)
Actually, when automated layout styles break down here or simply won't
raise up to the customer's quality
John McChesney-Young said this at Sat, 10 Jan 2004 09:18:07 -0800:
I've also been following the French hyphenation thread with some
interest; my outputs of all the samples posted so far (with TeXShop
1.34) have unfortunately displayed A-macroncopyright symbol for
the original e-aigue, and the
Hans Hagen said this at Tue, 6 Jan 2004 15:01:30 +0100:
The $ mishandling probably is a bug (using Beta from 18 Dec).
can you try:
\chardef\XMLtokensreduction\plustwo
and see if it's better then?
Nope. That one doesn't work. Still get:
select=[EMAIL PROTECTED] = \bgroup \$\egroup
Hans Hagen said this at Mon, 5 Jan 2004 21:12:16 +0100:
and of course a \showXMLfile{name.xml}
The advantage of this method is that too wide lines are handled better i.e.
they are properly indented
Thanks, Hans.
I tried that a little following your suggestion. It has some trouble with
'$' in
Hi Hans. Thanks for the reply.
Hans Hagen said this at Sat, 3 Jan 2004 23:38:02 +0100:
In unic-ini:
\chardef\utfunihashmode=0 % 1 = enabled
Actually, if I understand things correctly, '1' means disabled, which
is what I preferred, having not yet created any unicode vectors. So the
internal
For those who are curious, a demo doc is up on the site as well,
visualising as many of the symbols from symb-uni that I could find...
http://homepage.mac.com/atl/tex/AppleSymbolsDemo.pdf
Adam Lindsay said this at Mon, 5 Jan 2004 14:23:28 +:
Hi everyone.
There's a new My Way up on my site
Peter Münster said this at Sun, 4 Jan 2004 19:09:38 +0100:
* What should I do to use the latin9 encoding?
I copied regi-il1.tex with the appropriate changes to regi-il9.tex but it
does not work. Anyway: when I get a working il9-file in my private ConTeXt
directory, how should I name it?
Peter,
Gonçalo,
Extended ASCII is relatively uninformative without some information on
which encoding you're actually using (ASCII is normative from 0-127).
I'll guess you mean '§' (Section mark), which, judging from regi-win and
regi-il1, is my guess for the character you mean. (On the mac, it's 'ß'
or
Hi, folks,
I've been struggling through, trying to learn Unicode in ConTeXt. It's
been instructive, at least. (Hope to make a MyWay about it...)
There are a few weird things that made it difficult to learn, and I was
wondering if someone could help explain why things are the way they are.
In
That would be the .pdfsync file. Clearly the specs have been made
available to some people, but I don't see them publically.
Attached is the one generated from the sync demo. It's not a very
transparent format, though.
Jérôme, where is the pdfsync specification?
adam
Hans Hagen said this at
Tobias Burnus said this at Wed, 17 Dec 2003 20:07:56 +0100:
(a) I fail somehow to produce bookmarks (or 'outlines') for the Acrobat
Reader. I tried
\placebookmarks[chapter,section,subsection]
\starttext
\chapter{foo}
\stoptext
but the outline is completely empty.
Tobias,
Add:
Is this another way of saying that there's a new version (+ beta) on the
site? :)
Hans Hagen said this at Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:32:29 +0100:
At 13:55 10/12/2003, you wrote:
This would also make much easier to give acces to context to
beginer (without the need of texmf experience).
There is
Hans Hagen said this at Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:58:55 +0100:
bold math and mixed bold math; only defined for lucida (dunno other bold
math fonts yet)
Very cool.
I'm trying it with Euler, and it almost works. However, the [size]
typescript finds the namespace too crowded... well, as far as I can
John Culleton said this at Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:39:05 -0500:
texfont.pl \
--fontroot=/u/usr/TeX/texmf-local \
--sourcepath=/tmp/fonts \
--vendor=adobe \
--collection=agaramond \
--makepath --install
John,
I'm not sure... I tend to use texfont one given way, and don't change my
use patterns
Thomas A. Schmitz said this at Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:09:45 +0100:
On Monday, November 17, 2003, at 10:59 AM, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
make sure \protectbufferstrue is set in cont-sys.tex
Thanks, Patrick. \protectbufferstrue is uncommented (I guess that's the
default, isn't it?). Does the
David,
Which operating system are you on?
All I can think of as the easy way is the possibility listed in cont-sys:
% Some styles default to Lucida Bright. You can overload
% Lucida by Times cum suis. Watch out, the pos collection
% is not scaled relatively.
%
% \definetypescriptsynonym [lbr]
That still didn't work, but it was a lot clearer to figure out what to do.
So with a little help from the Camel book, I figured out how to wrap the
conditional 'use' in a way that works (well, compiles) on my (non-Win32)
system at least:
my $IsWin32;
BEGIN {
$IsWin32 = ($^O =~ /MSWin32/i);
Hans Hagen said this at Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:54:46 +0200:
i.e. we don't need the -Expert here because it can live in a typeface; but
how to deal with Black and Semi?
And Light? (and ExtraLight and ExtraBlack?)
Hmm. You're asking us?
I always assumed, since I came to the ConTeXt game relatively
Hans Hagen said this at Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:46:56 +0200:
let's tell you a little secret:
www.pragma-ade.com/context/cont-bas.tex
Yeah, I just noticed cont-bas.zip just yesterday how long has that
been there?
For a while I've been asking myself what would the minimal texmf tree for
John,
First off, make sure you don't already have the font buried somewhere. I
found Charter SC (faked) in my TeXLive 7 installation:
\showfont[bchrc8t]
Ah, but there's a typo/omission in type-enc.tex. That particular line
should be:
\definefontsynonym [ec-bchr8a-capitalized-800] [bchrc8t]
Jens-Uwe Morawski said this at Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:45:13 +0200:
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 00:29:27 +0100
Adam Lindsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did anyone get Scriptina to install? The pltotf step in texfont still
hangs.
I did using fontinst. If you (or anyone else) wish i can send an archive
Ed L Cashin said this at Fri, 13 Jun 2003 17:12:13 -0400:
I always use explicit hyphen like this:
Don't second|-|guess me.
If it really is always, you can save a little effort with:
\setuphyphenmark[sign=-]
(This relates to an issue I mentioned earlier: anyone notice how these
compound word
Sytse Knypstra said this at Thu, 12 Jun 2003 11:12:01 +0200:
Let's say I want to start mediaplayer with the file MyMusic.wav.
Well, for this specific example, why not \useexternalsoundtrack (core-fig)?
Acrobat seems to support a fair number of media types in a cross-platform
way, which could get
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