[NTG-context] \XeTeX\ misbehaving

2020-12-04 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
Hans, just accidentally, I discovered that \XeTeX\ misbehaves: \starttext \input{zapf} \XETEX\ \input{knuth} \stoptext BTW, this is the MWE after I saw http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/luametatex.pdf#page=15. I hope it helps, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX, ConTeXt and font/filename quote char

2012-12-29 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 02:50:06PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: On 12/23/2012 7:29 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: Hi all, Some people have been complaining that it is not possible to use XeTeX with filenames containing parenthesis because XeTeX treats it as filename quote char and this it gets

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX, ConTeXt and font/filename quote char

2012-12-23 Thread Hans Hagen
On 12/23/2012 7:29 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: Hi all, Some people have been complaining that it is not possible to use XeTeX with filenames containing parenthesis because XeTeX treats it as filename quote char and this it gets stripped. Anyway, after some searching it turned out this was added in

[NTG-context] XeTeX, ConTeXt and font/filename quote char

2012-12-22 Thread Khaled Hosny
Hi all, Some people have been complaining that it is not possible to use XeTeX with filenames containing parenthesis because XeTeX treats it as filename quote char and this it gets stripped. Anyway, after some searching it turned out this was added in 2004 for ConTeXt to workaround some MetaPost

Re: [NTG-context] (XeTeX) trouble debugging a Missing number error

2012-12-07 Thread Lars Huttar
In response to Hans Hagen and Wolfgang Schuster's messages of Dec. 5, Just to let you know, in response to your messages, I am working a small, self-contained example that reproduces the problem. However I have been asked to focus on a different project for a few days, so ... please don't

[NTG-context] (XeTeX) trouble debugging a Missing number error

2012-12-05 Thread Lars Huttar
Hi all, I'm working with some code that was developed by someone else. The document I'm typesetting is now giving the following error: ! Missing number, treated as zero. to be read again \otr:1:27 \OTRSETdoifcellelse ...er #1:\number #2\endcsname

Re: [NTG-context] (XeTeX) trouble debugging a Missing number error

2012-12-05 Thread Hans Hagen
On 12/5/2012 11:19 AM, Lars Huttar wrote: Hi all, I'm working with some code that was developed by someone else. The document I'm typesetting is now giving the following error: ! Missing number, treated as zero. to be read again \otr:1:27 \OTRSETdoifcellelse ...er

Re: [NTG-context] (XeTeX) trouble debugging a Missing number error

2012-12-05 Thread Lars Huttar
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Re: [NTG-context] (XeTeX) trouble debugging a Missing number error

2012-12-05 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 05.12.2012 um 16:46 schrieb Lars Huttar lars_hut...@sil.org: /Hans Hagen wrote (///Wed Dec 5 14:10:12 CET 2012/):/ On 12/5/2012 11:19 AM, Lars Huttar wrote: / Hi all, / /... / / // // % Abbreviations

Re: [NTG-context] xetex and attachment: troubles

2009-04-10 Thread Hans Hagen
Jesse Alama wrote: Any progress on this? As of 2009-04-09, attachments with xetex still behave as Andrea described on 2008-03-31. (I'm using the xetex in the minimals.) i didn't look into it; it's mostly a dpx backend issue btw, not that much related to xetex Hans

Re: [NTG-context] xetex and attachment: troubles

2009-04-09 Thread Jesse Alama
Any progress on this? As of 2009-04-09, attachments with xetex still behave as Andrea described on 2008-03-31. (I'm using the xetex in the minimals.) Jesse Andrea Valle va...@di.unito.it writes: Thanks Mojca, Hans, ok, I've understood. :) -a- On 3 Apr 2008, at 12:17, Hans Hagen

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX font feature selection

2009-03-15 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 15:33, John Hughes wrote: What is the correct way of selecting a font and using OpenType features? I have tried \definetypeface[linlib][rm][Xserif][Linux Libertine][features=oldstyle] \setupbodyfont[linlib, 12pt] but the output prints Computer Modern (and not with

[NTG-context] XeTeX font feature selection

2009-03-14 Thread John Hughes
What is the correct way of selecting a font and using OpenType features? I have tried \definetypeface[linlib][rm][Xserif][Linux Libertine][features=oldstyle] \setupbodyfont[linlib, 12pt] but the output prints Computer Modern (and not with old-style numerals). The font seems to work without the

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and/or LuaTeX?

2009-02-01 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: attached a more efficient variant Hello Hans, I don't know anything about right-to-left typesetting, but is the result of this desired? (not sure if I copy-pasted properly) \sethebrew test \ConTeXt\ הָלַך test Mojca

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and/or LuaTeX?

2009-02-01 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 7:54 PM, J.A.J. Pater wrote: My guess was incorrect. I copy-pasted the underneath text into my test file and I got good results. No tXeTnoC. So here it just works like a charm. I'm sorry. I accidentally commented out \setcharactermirroring[1]

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and/or LuaTeX?

2009-01-31 Thread J.A.J. Pater
Thanks very much Hans! I will start reading everything about fonts next week. J.A.J. Pater wrote: I've already send a mail in reply to Hans, but it was to big since I attached the TTF. I don't know if the moderator will approve of posting fonts. But it can also be found on the web:

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and/or LuaTeX?

2009-01-31 Thread J.A.J. Pater
So what I wanted was just: \environment heb-sty \starttext test1 {\switchtotypeface [hebrew] הָלַך} test2 \stoptext Thanks again! I'll be using MarkIV for my thesis with XeTeX as a fallback option. Adriaan. ___

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and/or LuaTeX?

2009-01-31 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: attached a more efficient variant Hello Hans, I don't know anything about right-to-left typesetting, but is the result of this desired? (not sure if I copy-pasted properly) \sethebrew test \ConTeXt\ הָלַך test Mojca PS: I get tXeTnoC. I

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and/or LuaTeX?

2009-01-31 Thread J.A.J. Pater
It works OK here: \sethebrew test3 \ConTeXt\ הָלַך test4 gives = test4 הָלַך test3 ConTeXt This is the way the macro is meant to be! I guess the tXeTnoC is indeed a result of improper copy-pasting. Unicode works with invisible formatting characters used to control bidirectional typesetting.

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and/or LuaTeX?

2009-01-31 Thread J.A.J. Pater
My guess was incorrect. I copy-pasted the underneath text into my test file and I got good results. No tXeTnoC. So here it just works like a charm. Grtz, Adriaan. On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: attached a more efficient variant Hello Hans, I don't know anything

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and/or LuaTeX?

2009-01-31 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 7:54 PM, J.A.J. Pater wrote: My guess was incorrect. I copy-pasted the underneath text into my test file and I got good results. No tXeTnoC. So here it just works like a charm. I'm sorry. I accidentally commented out \setcharactermirroring[1] while switching between

[NTG-context] XeTeX and/or LuaTeX?

2009-01-30 Thread J.A.J. Pater
I'm was planning to write my master thesis in XeLaTeX until I discovered that ConTeXt can use the XeTeX engine. I need to use a lot of Hebrew - so Right to Left typing - and some linguistic glyphs and stuff. But from the wiki I understand there are still some issues with ConTeXt's

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and/or LuaTeX?

2009-01-30 Thread Yue Wang
Hi, Like the bookmarks may result in some strangeness in certain documents Can someone tell me what kind of strangeness? Many features like dvi / metapost may produce strange result. you can search the mailing list and you can find plenty of them. And XeTeX can't use certain specials and

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and/or LuaTeX?

2009-01-30 Thread J.A.J. Pater
Thanks for the answers! Especially the tip about searching the mailing list! And if not, why should (or shouldn't) I use MarkIV over XeTeX? Since XeTeX does not provide most of the LuaTeX features. Does LuaTeX support right to left utf-8 Hebrew typing with ttf/otf fonts? Would it be (much)

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and/or LuaTeX?

2009-01-30 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:12 PM, J.A.J. Pater jajpa...@gmail.com wrote: Does LuaTeX support right to left utf-8 Hebrew typing with ttf/otf fonts? Would it be (much) more complicated than in XeTeX? LuaTeX has more features for RTL than XeTeX because it's one of the goals of the LuaTeX project.

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and/or LuaTeX?

2009-01-30 Thread Hans Hagen
J.A.J. Pater wrote: And now on this list there is a lot of talk about LuaTeX and Mark IV. So I wonder: Is it possible to use MarkIV and XeTeX engine at the same time? And if not, why should (or shouldn't) I use MarkIV over XeTeX? you could use both at the same time, but xetex uses mkii and

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and/or LuaTeX?

2009-01-30 Thread Hans Hagen
J.A.J. Pater wrote: Thanks for the answers! Especially the tip about searching the mailing list! And if not, why should (or shouldn't) I use MarkIV over XeTeX? Since XeTeX does not provide most of the LuaTeX features. Does LuaTeX support right to left utf-8 Hebrew typing with ttf/otf

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and/or LuaTeX?

2009-01-30 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:29 AM, J.A.J. Pater wrote: I'm was planning to write my master thesis in XeLaTeX until I discovered that ConTeXt can use the XeTeX engine. I need to use a lot of Hebrew - so Right to Left typing - and some linguistic glyphs and stuff. But from the wiki I understand

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and/or LuaTeX?

2009-01-30 Thread J.A.J. Pater
I've already send a mail in reply to Hans, but it was to big since I attached the TTF. I don't know if the moderator will approve of posting fonts. But it can also be found on the web: http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsiid=EzraSIL_Home So the moderator can drop my last

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX, Adobe Garmond dash, quotes, etc.

2008-11-21 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 6:40 AM, Bart C. Wise wrote: Mojca, Thanks for all you time in helping out. I'm still having problems. The \quote and \quotation work. However, as you pointed out, the en, em and apostrophe do not work. In addition, [features=default] did not compile, but

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX, Adobe Garmond dash, quotes, etc.

2008-11-21 Thread Bart C. Wise
I think the error I got was not having enough sleep :-) because I worked on it this morning and it's working. I'll tack on my current file below. The font features does not seem to make any difference. However, I took the same typescript and modified it for the Tallys font and I can turn

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX, Adobe Garmond dash, quotes, etc.

2008-11-21 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Bart C. Wise wrote: I think the error I got was not having enough sleep :-) because I worked on it this morning and it's working. I'll tack on my current file below. The font features does not seem to make any difference. However, I took the same typescript

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX, Adobe Garmond dash, quotes, etc.

2008-11-21 Thread Bart C. Wise
Fontforge shows no ligatures for Adobe Garamond; however, it does show ligatures for the Tallys fonts. So that probably explains why there are no ligatures. However, the font has a lot of kerning pairs, but I don't seem to be able turn those on/off with the \definefontfeature directive as I

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX, Adobe Garmond dash, quotes, etc.

2008-11-21 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 21.11.2008 um 18:25 schrieb Bart C. Wise: Fontforge shows no ligatures for Adobe Garamond; however, it does show ligatures for the Tallys fonts. So that probably explains why there are no ligatures. However, the font has a lot of kerning pairs, but I don't seem to be able turn

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX, Adobe Garmond dash, quotes, etc.

2008-11-21 Thread Bart C. Wise
On Friday 21 November 2008 11:11:39 am Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 21.11.2008 um 18:25 schrieb Bart C. Wise: Fontforge shows no ligatures for Adobe Garamond; however, it does show ligatures for the Tallys fonts. So that probably explains why there are no ligatures. However, the font

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and lmtypewriter10-regular

2008-11-20 Thread Hans Hagen
Bart C. Wise wrote: I'm running TeXLive 2008. When I compile for XeTeX (texexec --xtx) I get the following output that appears to be generating the lmtypewriter10-regular font. The bad part is that this is very slow. The part that's even worse, it does this probably 20...30...40 times?

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX, Adobe Garmond dash, quotes, etc.

2008-11-20 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:14 AM, Bart C. Wise wrote: The code below is used to load the Adobe Garmond fonts. The problem is that quotes (``) produces two single quotes. Similar with dashes: an en dash produces to dashes, an em dash likewise produces three dashes. What am I doing wrong

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX, Adobe Garmond dash, quotes, etc.

2008-11-20 Thread Bart C. Wise
Mojca, Thanks for all you time in helping out. I'm still having problems. The \quote and \quotation work. However, as you pointed out, the en, em and apostrophe do not work. In addition, [features=default] did not compile, but [feature=default] did. Here's what I'm working with:

[NTG-context] XeTeX and lmtypewriter10-regular

2008-11-19 Thread Bart C. Wise
I'm running TeXLive 2008. When I compile for XeTeX (texexec --xtx) I get the following output that appears to be generating the lmtypewriter10-regular font. The bad part is that this is very slow. The part that's even worse, it does this probably 20...30...40 times? A compilation takes 145

[NTG-context] XeTex Mara Font

2008-11-18 Thread Bart C. Wise
I am currently trying to get the mara font loaded into XeTeX. Here's some information about the font (via fontforge): file: marafont.ttf Fontname: MaraFontNFPlain: Family Name: MaraFontNF Plain: (yes, the colons are in the name) I've tried a couple of ways, using both the fontname and the

Re: [NTG-context] XeTex Mara Font

2008-11-18 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
I've tried a couple of ways, using both the fontname and the family name, both with and without the ending semi-colons; however, it fails at compile time. Have you tried prepending name: to the font name, like I explained yesterday? Arthur

Re: [NTG-context] XeTex Mara Font

2008-11-18 Thread Bart C. Wise
I tried prepending name and it didn't work. I also tried file:marafont, but that didn't work either. Your code yesterday was great and I have not tried to plug in the mara font into a typescript. There are some fonts that I just want to put in one section of the text without having to write

Re: [NTG-context] XeTex Mara Font

2008-11-18 Thread Bart C. Wise
I also tried plugging it into the typescript (not what I want), but that didn't work either. I tried both the name: and the file: options. Still lost, Bart On Tuesday 18 November 2008 11:54:49 am Arthur Reutenauer wrote: I've tried a couple of ways, using both the fontname and the family

Re: [NTG-context] XeTex Mara Font

2008-11-18 Thread Bart C. Wise
One thing of possible interest is that when I load the font in fontforge, I get the following warning: Bad Font Name The Postscript font name MaraFontNF Plain: is invalid. It should be printable ASCII, must not contain (){}[]%/ or space and must be shorter than 63 characters. Is the colon at

Re: [NTG-context] XeTex Mara Font

2008-11-18 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
Is the colon at the end of the name a problem? No, the message says the problem is with the space character, but it is of little concern here (XeTeX doesn't use PostScript font names at all). Is it the font from http://www.perry.com/disney/indy/marafont.html? It seems to have quite a number

Re: [NTG-context] XeTex Mara Font

2008-11-18 Thread Bart C. Wise
That seems to work. I just renamed the fontname and family (removing the colon), generated a new ttf and loaded that into the system. So this works: \definetypeface[MaraFontNFPlain][rm][Xserif][MaraFontNFPlain] \starttext \startfont[MaraFontNFPlain] This is a test. \stoptext And yes, the url

Re: [NTG-context] XeTex Mara Font

2008-11-18 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
One quick question (again expressing my ignorance). Why can't I take the code above and change it to the following: \definetypeface[Mara][rm][Xserif][MaraFontNFPlain] \starttext \startfont[Mara] This is a test. \stoptext I have no idea ... Does it really not work? Arthur

Re: [NTG-context] XeTex Mara Font

2008-11-18 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 18.11.2008 um 23:00 schrieb Arthur Reutenauer: One quick question (again expressing my ignorance). Why can't I take the code above and change it to the following: \definetypeface[Mara][rm][Xserif][MaraFontNFPlain] \starttext \startfont[Mara] This is a test. \stoptext I have no

Re: [NTG-context] XeTex Mara Font

2008-11-18 Thread Bart C. Wise
Wolfgang, This one does work. Thanks again, Bart On Tuesday 18 November 2008 03:28:45 pm Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 18.11.2008 um 23:00 schrieb Arthur Reutenauer: One quick question (again expressing my ignorance). Why can't I take the code above and change it to the following:

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX old style numerals

2008-10-19 Thread Mohamed Bana
I ought to mention small caps doesn't work with the last approach. Wolfgang Schuster wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Mohamed Bana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So ... can someone provide a sample file of a document that uses old style by default? Clearly the following doesn't work;

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX old style numerals

2008-10-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Jeff Smith wrote: \definefontfeature[bodyfeatures][method=node,script=latn,language=dflt,liga=yes,onum=yes,kern=yes,trep=yes,dlig=yes] I get the onum and dlig working with this, but, like I said, the trep doesn't work. If I am not mistaken, it's this feature

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX old style numerals

2008-10-18 Thread Jeff Smith
Thank you Mojca for this quick reply! I didn't expect one right away, so I'm glad I'm not the only one not wanting to leave ConTeXt aside even during the weekend. ;-) So tlig it is. Thanks again! Jeff On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 17:56, Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX old style numerals

2008-10-11 Thread Mohamed Bana
So ... can someone provide a sample file of a document that uses old style by default? Clearly the following doesn't work; \definetypeface[myface][rm][Xserif][Minion Pro] % i've also tried %\definetypeface[myface][rm][Xserif][Warnock Pro] \definetypeface[myface][ss][Xsans][Myriad Pro]

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX old style numerals

2008-09-21 Thread Hans Hagen
Yue Wang wrote: The problem is that that's only a dirty trick that is not supposed to work and might stop working in the future, so I would rather try not to rely on it. A better interface for XeTeX typescripts (something similar to fontspec) is missing heavily. I prefer use opentype

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX old style numerals

2008-09-20 Thread Hans Hagen
Mohamed Bana wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Mohamed Bana wrote: Hi guys, Why doesn't this definition use the old style numerals that come with the font? It seems to use the latin modern font when I try to use \os. Small caps are working fine. \os is

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX old style numerals

2008-09-20 Thread Yue Wang
The problem is that that's only a dirty trick that is not supposed to work and might stop working in the future, so I would rather try not to rely on it. A better interface for XeTeX typescripts (something similar to fontspec) is missing heavily. I prefer use opentype features than add

[NTG-context] XeTeX old style numerals

2008-09-19 Thread Mohamed Bana
Hi guys, Why doesn't this definition use the old style numerals that come with the font? It seems to use the latin modern font when I try to use \os. Small caps are working fine. I'd like all the numbers in the document to be typeset in old style numerals unless I tell it otherwise, btw how

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX old style numerals

2008-09-19 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Mohamed Bana wrote: Hi guys, Why doesn't this definition use the old style numerals that come with the font? It seems to use the latin modern font when I try to use \os. Small caps are working fine. I'd like all the numbers in the document to be typeset

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and precise font sizes

2008-07-10 Thread Neiaglov Dmitry
you mis-googled :-) http://www.google.com/cse?q=gentiumcx=016640200293943433883:w-6slqs1kjgcof=FORID:0sa=Special+Search I really couldn't think that problem was font-dependent :) following code should be work. \starttypescript[serif][gentium-basic] \definefontsynonym[Serif]

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and precise font sizes

2008-07-10 Thread Hans Hagen
Neiaglov Dmitry wrote: you mis-googled :-) http://www.google.com/cse?q=gentiumcx=016640200293943433883:w-6slqs1kjgcof=FORID:0sa=Special+Search I really couldn't think that problem was font-dependent :) following code should be work. \starttypescript[serif][gentium-basic]

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and precise font sizes

2008-07-10 Thread Diego Depaoli
2008/7/10 Neiaglov Dmitry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: you mis-googled :-) http://www.google.com/cse?q=gentiumcx=016640200293943433883:w-6slqs1kjgcof=FORID:0sa=Special+Search I really couldn't think that problem was font-dependent :) Indeed... I pointed you to the very helpful 'special search' box in

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and precise font sizes

2008-07-10 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Neiaglov Dmitry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you mis-googled :-) http://www.google.com/cse?q=gentiumcx=016640200293943433883:w-6slqs1kjgcof=FORID:0sa=Special+Search I really couldn't think that problem was font-dependent :) following code should be work.

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and precise font sizes

2008-07-10 Thread Neiaglov Dmitry
\starttypescript[serif][gentium-basic] \definefontsynonym[Serif] [GentiumBasic] \definefontsynonym[SerifItalic][GentiumBasicItalic] \definefontsynonym[SerifBold] [GentiumBasicBold] \definefontsynonym[SerifBoldItalic][GentiumBasicBoldItalic] \stoptypescript Cool, that

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and precise font sizes

2008-07-10 Thread Hans Hagen
Neiaglov Dmitry wrote: \starttypescript[serif][gentium-basic] \definefontsynonym[Serif] [GentiumBasic] \definefontsynonym[SerifItalic][GentiumBasicItalic] \definefontsynonym[SerifBold] [GentiumBasicBold] \definefontsynonym[SerifBoldItalic][GentiumBasicBoldItalic]

[NTG-context] XeTeX and precise font sizes

2008-07-09 Thread Neiaglov Dmitry
Hello there! I was googling around, but couldn't really figure out how to use OpenType fonts with ConTeXt and XeTeX with precise sizes in points. I am trying to create a subsection style with Gentium 24pt. I am creating a typeface like it's recommended in the documentation: \definetypeface

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and precise font sizes

2008-07-09 Thread Diego Depaoli
2008/7/10 Neiaglov Dmitry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello there! I was googling around, you mis-googled :-) http://www.google.com/cse?q=gentiumcx=016640200293943433883:w-6slqs1kjgcof=FORID:0sa=Special+Search OpenType fonts with ConTeXt and XeTeX with precise sizes in points. I am trying to create a

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and precise font sizes

2008-07-09 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 1:02 AM, Diego Depaoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/10 Neiaglov Dmitry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello there! I was googling around, you mis-googled :-) http://www.google.com/cse?q=gentiumcx=016640200293943433883:w-6slqs1kjgcof=FORID:0sa=Special+Search OpenType fonts

[NTG-context] XeTeX in ConTeXt

2008-05-24 Thread Charles Doherty
Dear all, I have tried to upgrade ConTeXt using sudo ctxtools --updatecontext followed by sudo texmfstart texexec --make en and sudo texmfstart texexec --make --xetex en Following the upgrade a normal ConTeXt document runs perfectly but when I run XeConTeXt through TeXShop I get the readout

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX in ConTeXt

2008-05-24 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Charles Doherty wrote: Dear all, I have tried to upgrade ConTeXt using sudo ctxtools --updatecontext followed by sudo texmfstart texexec --make en and sudo texmfstart texexec --make --xetex en Following the upgrade a normal ConTeXt document runs

Re: [NTG-context] xetex and attachment: troubles

2008-04-03 Thread Andrea Valle
Thanks Mojca, The problem is not the --xtx switch, but the lack of support for the underlying (xdvipdfmx) driver. Sorry, please remember I'm very far from there... I was just meaning: the problem is in xetex engine? I googled a bit and found the following slides:

Re: [NTG-context] xetex and attachment: troubles

2008-04-03 Thread Andrea Valle
Thanks Mojca, Hans, ok, I've understood. :) -a- On 3 Apr 2008, at 12:17, Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Andrea Valle wrote: Thanks Mojca, The problem is not the --xtx switch, but the lack of support for the underlying (xdvipdfmx) driver.

Re: [NTG-context] xetex and attachment: troubles

2008-04-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Andrea Valle wrote: Thanks Mojca, The problem is not the --xtx switch, but the lack of support for the underlying (xdvipdfmx) driver. Sorry, please remember I'm very far from there... I was just meaning: the problem is in xetex engine? I googled a bit

Re: [NTG-context] xetex and attachment: troubles

2008-04-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Andrea Valle wrote: Thanks Mojca, The problem is not the --xtx switch, but the lack of support for the underlying (xdvipdfmx) driver. Sorry, please remember I'm very far from there... I was just meaning: the problem is in xetex

Re: [NTG-context] xetex and attachment: troubles

2008-04-02 Thread Andrea Valle
Sorry, but I would need a solution, or at least to know if there's nothing to do. Any hints? Best Thanks -a- On 31 Mar 2008, at 17:28, Andrea Valle wrote: Dear all, I'm using xetex with fun (as suggested and discussed on the mailing list). I'm revising a previously created document

Re: [NTG-context] xetex and attachment: troubles

2008-04-02 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Andrea Valle wrote: Dear all, I'm using xetex with fun (as suggested and discussed on the mailing list). I'm revising a previously created document which used attachment command. (the one documented here:

[NTG-context] xetex and attachment: troubles

2008-03-31 Thread Andrea Valle
Dear all, I'm using xetex with fun (as suggested and discussed on the mailing list). I'm revising a previously created document which used attachment command. (the one documented here: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ Verbatim_text#A_different_approach_to_formatting_and_code_colorization )

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX: faked bold slanted + request for ppc users

2008-03-10 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, I just wanted to let you know that XeTeX now supports both faking bold and slanted (and the binaries on the garden minimals have that feature already). It's generally a bad idea to use it, but in case that you need it only for small portions of text (if you

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX: faked bold slanted + request for ppc users

2008-03-10 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, I just wanted to let you know that XeTeX now supports both faking bold and slanted (and the binaries on the garden minimals have that feature already). It's generally a bad idea to use it, but in case

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX: faked bold slanted + request for ppc users

2008-03-10 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 10 Mar 2008, at 1:50 pm, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, I just wanted to let you know that XeTeX now supports both faking bold and slanted (and the binaries on the garden minimals have that feature already).

[NTG-context] XeTeX: faked bold slanted + request for ppc users

2008-03-09 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, I just wanted to let you know that XeTeX now supports both faking bold and slanted (and the binaries on the garden minimals have that feature already). It's generally a bad idea to use it, but in case that you need it only for small portions of text (if you really have no other way out),

[NTG-context] XeTeX vs. luatex

2008-02-01 Thread Gour
Hi! After moving to emacs I decided to settle on ConTeXt markup and want to use Unicode engine. Luatex is advancing very nicely and I wonder is there any reason to use XeTeX over luatex, i.e. what features are missing (if any) in regards to regarding font-handling in luatex in comparison with

[NTG-context] xetex/luatex AUCTeX

2007-12-25 Thread Gour
Hi! Is it possible to 'teach' AUCTeX to use xetex and/or luatex as TeX engine for ConTeXt? I see entry for Omega, but all the attempts for luatex/xetex do not work :-( Sincerely, Gour signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [NTG-context] [XeTeX] ec-lmr12 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file

2007-11-05 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 05.11.2007 um 09:30 schrieb Dalyoung Jeong: Mon Nov 5 16:56:15 graph.ssu.ac.kr xdv2pdf[21489] Error: WARNING: Type1 font data returned by OFAStreamPSDownload isn't in the correct format required by the Adobe Type 1Font Format specification. ... Output written on test-font.pdf (1

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX after ctxtools

2007-09-16 Thread Andrea Valle
(Thanks Hans) On 15 Sep 2007, at 18:43, Hans Hagen wrote: Andrea Valle wrote: \enableregime[utf] this one is not needed, xetex is utf Ok. I read some infos on the wiki but I was a bit confused. So: - if I encode in utf-8 I don't have to specify regime \enableregime[utf] - if I encode

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX after ctxtools

2007-09-16 Thread Andrea Valle
I was happy with old install, with bugs and xetex low level commands :-) So, er, which strategy you gurus suggest? Reinstall from scratch (old) TeXLive 2007 waiting for a new release? I have that project of typesetting our journal which will start in a month. (I'd like to use system fonts,

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX after ctxtools

2007-09-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 9/16/07, Andrea Valle wrote: On 15 Sep 2007, at 18:43, Hans Hagen wrote: \enableregime[utf] this one is not needed, xetex is utf Ok. I read some infos on the wiki but I was a bit confused. So: - if I encode in utf-8 I don't have to specify regime \enableregime[utf] - if I encode in

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX after ctxtools

2007-09-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 9/16/07, Andrea Valle wrote: I was happy with old install, with bugs and xetex low level commands :-) So, er, which strategy you gurus suggest? Reinstall from scratch (old) TeXLive 2007 waiting for a new release? That's one possibility, of course. You can also download any ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX patch

2007-09-16 Thread Andrea Valle
Really thanks a lot Mojca for the help. I replaced the two files, I found two copies of font-ini.tex and replaced them all. Then: texexec --make --all texexec --make --all --xetex (I guess the first is useless if I execute the second, isn't it?) YES! Alleluja, alleluja, it works, no

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX patch

2007-09-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 9/16/07, Andrea Valle wrote: Then: texexec --make --all texexec --make --all --xetex (I guess the first is useless if I execute the second, isn't it?) You need the first one for pdfTeX and the second one for XeTeX. (If you only work with XeTeX, then you don't need the first one, and for

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX after ctxtools

2007-09-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Andrea Valle wrote: (Thanks Hans) On 15 Sep 2007, at 18:43, Hans Hagen wrote: Andrea Valle wrote: \enableregime[utf] this one is not needed, xetex is utf Ok. I read some infos on the wiki but I was a bit confused. So: - if I encode in utf-8 I don't have to specify regime

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX after ctxtools

2007-09-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Another possibility would be to use LuaTeX. It should work OK, but again, there is no 100% guarantee (I created some newspaper with it back in June and besides all the problems I had every now and then, it was pre-alpha after all, our color laser at university still

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX after ctxtools

2007-09-15 Thread Hans Hagen
Andrea Valle wrote: Thanks Hans texexec --xetex myfile.tex is broken too: ** WARNING ** Invalid CMap ** ERROR ** pdf_ref_obj(): passed invalid object. (what's the difference between --xtx and --xetex?) depends on theversion of texexec; nowadays we always use dvipdfmx so there

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX after ctxtools

2007-09-15 Thread Andrea Valle
Thanks Hans Hmm, if you mean it can depend of Optima (a part from the fact that it has worked perfectly before) the following breaks in the same way: \enableregime[utf] \setuppapersize[S6][S6] \starttext \startitemize \item nome dell'insegnamento (es. $\to$ Storia del cinema) \item settore

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX after ctxtools

2007-09-15 Thread Hans Hagen
Andrea Valle wrote: \enableregime[utf] this one is not needed, xetex is utf \starttext \startitemize \item nome dell'insegnamento (es. $\to$ Storia del cinema) \item settore scientifico-disciplinare (SSD, es. $\to$ l-art/06) \item numero di crediti (cfu, es. $\to$ 10) \stopitemize La

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX after ctxtools

2007-09-15 Thread Mojca Miklavec
(I'm sorry for the delayed answer.) On 9/15/07, Hans Hagen wrote: Andrea Valle wrote: ** WARNING ** Invalid CMap ** ERROR ** pdf_ref_obj(): passed invalid object. i wonder what that object is .. and who generates the ref, could be a special but you do nothing special in the example so i'm

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX after ctxtools

2007-09-15 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: PS: to be honest, I'm still using the XeTeX version from TeXLive 2007 which is a bit old. I remember that Jonathan has promissed to look into the problem described above some time ago (\font\a=rm-lmr12 vs. \font\a=rm-lmr12 at 12pt), but I have no idea about what has

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX after ctxtools

2007-09-15 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: (I'm sorry for the delayed answer.) On 9/15/07, Hans Hagen wrote: Andrea Valle wrote: ** WARNING ** Invalid CMap ** ERROR ** pdf_ref_obj(): passed invalid object. i wonder what that object is .. and who generates the ref, could be a special but you do nothing special

[NTG-context] XeTeX after ctxtools in MacTeX was: xetex and external pdf stretching

2007-09-14 Thread Andrea Valle
Thanks Mojca, Yes, having the standard mactex I had an old ConTeXt version. On 13 Sep 2007, at 14:47, Mojca Miklavec wrote: ctxtools --updatecontext Done it. Now I'm using: texexec --version TeXExec | version 6.2.0 - 1997-2006 texec --check 2007.09.13 21:15 I've made also: texexec

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX after ctxtools in MacTeX was: xetex and external pdf stretching

2007-09-14 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/9/14, Andrea Valle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks Mojca, Yes, having the standard mactex I had an old ConTeXt version. On 13 Sep 2007, at 14:47, Mojca Miklavec wrote: ctxtools --updatecontext Done it. Now I'm using: texexec --version TeXExec | version 6.2.0 - 1997-2006 texec

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX after ctxtools in MacTeX was: xetex and external pdf stretching

2007-09-14 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 9/14/07, Andrea Valle wrote: YES. Thanks Mojca, Wolfgang. Stretching problem solved updating ConTeXt. Great! Do you still experience any speed problems now? (I have a feeling that Hans has removed dependency on ImageMagic, but I didn't try to uninstall it to check if that was true.) I also

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