[XeTeX] [OT] Free fonts for fontspec examples?

2010-07-12 Thread Will Robertson
Dear all, I'm trying to improve the examples in the fontspec manual. As well as improving the examples already there, I'd like to eliminate the use of any non-free fonts so that others can compile the manual without trouble. I've got a few areas I'm stuck on, since my font repertoire isn't

Re: [XeTeX] Problems splitting double-columns in xetex

2010-07-12 Thread Ron Aaron
On Monday 12 July 2010 10:31:19 Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Hmm, can't see those in your PDF (perhaps because I can't ?yet? read Hebrew); can you identify them, and their placement, please ? At the bottom of the first page, hugging the last line of the English, there are two odd

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] TeXLive Pretest - XeTeX segfaults on LInux 64

2010-07-12 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 12 Jul 2010, at 09:21, ulrik.vi...@arcor.de wrote: I did check with ldd, but I don't have the exact ouput at hand. AFAIK, the XeTeX-modified ICU library was statically linked. Only stuff like fontconfig or zlib was dynamically linked. I am running Ubuntu 10.4 on AMD 64, but I haven't

Re: [XeTeX] [OT] Free fonts for fontspec examples?

2010-07-12 Thread Yves Codet
Hello. Le 12 juil. 10 à 09:15, Will Robertson a écrit : Dear all, I'm trying to improve the examples in the fontspec manual. As well as improving the examples already there, I'd like to eliminate the use of any non-free fonts so that others can compile the manual without trouble.

Re: [XeTeX] Problems splitting double-columns in xetex

2010-07-12 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 12 Jul 2010, at 09:26, Ron Aaron wrote: On Monday 12 July 2010 11:16:48 Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Fascinating : can you send me an example that does this using only English text, and ideally does not use fonts that don't come with TeX Live 2010 (since I can't process your

Re: [XeTeX] Problems splitting double-columns in xetex

2010-07-12 Thread Ron Aaron
On Monday 12 July 2010 11:57:36 Jonathan Kew wrote: In this case, you probably meant to say: \setbox\spliteng\vsplit\engbox to \pageremaining% \setbox\splitheb\vsplit\hebbox to \pageremaining% Oh, how embarrassing :( Thank you, I *knew* it was something simple ... -- For privacy,

Re: [XeTeX] PDF Media, Trim, and Bleed boxes in XeTeX

2010-07-12 Thread William Adams
On Jul 10, 2010, at 3:38 PM, Chris Yocum wrote: I have a feeling that this is a rather naive/dumb question but I will raise it nonetheles. I have been looking into creating pre-press quality (PDF X-1a at least) PDFs via XeLaTeX. It seems that most things are there: embedded fonts (pdffonts

Re: [XeTeX] PDF Media, Trim, and Bleed boxes in XeTeX

2010-07-12 Thread Chris Yocum
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/10 12:10, William Adams wrote: On Jul 10, 2010, at 3:38 PM, Chris Yocum wrote: I have a feeling that this is a rather naive/dumb question but I will raise it nonetheles. I have been looking into creating pre-press quality (PDF X-1a

Re: [XeTeX] [OT] Free fonts for fontspec examples?

2010-07-12 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 04:45:49PM +0930, Will Robertson wrote: Dear all, I'm trying to improve the examples in the fontspec manual. As well as improving the examples already there, I'd like to eliminate the use of any non-free fonts so that others can compile the manual without trouble.

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] TeXLive Pretest - XeTeX segfaults on LInux 64

2010-07-12 Thread Martin Schröder
2010/7/12 Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard m...@elzevir.fr: so I think his answer is that it is *not* doable to ship 32 bit XeTeX on LinUX64, since the user would need a 32-bit version of the dynamically linked libraries. Which is the norm on OpenSUSE. :-) Best Martin

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] TeXLive Pretest - XeTeX segfaults on LInux 64

2010-07-12 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2010/7/12 Martin Schröder mar...@oneiros.de: 2010/7/12 Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard m...@elzevir.fr: so I think his answer is that it is *not* doable to ship 32 bit XeTeX on LinUX64, since the user would need a 32-bit version of the dynamically linked libraries. Which is the norm on OpenSUSE. :-)

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] TeXLive Pretest - XeTeX segfaults on LInux 64

2010-07-12 Thread Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard
Le 12/07/2010 10:21, ulrik.vi...@arcor.de a écrit : I wouldn't assume that the problem is with dynamic linking per se. The crash has probably nothing to do with dynamic linking indeed. Reinhard was replying to this paragraph: Would it be a feasible idea to supply Linux32 binaries for XeTeX on

Re: [XeTeX] [OT] Free fonts for fontspec examples?

2010-07-12 Thread Will Robertson
On 2010-07-12 18:33:54 +0930, Alexey Kryukov anagn...@yandex.ru said: On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:45:49 +0930 Will Robertson wrote: - Historical style (hist) You can try my Theano Old Style font (http://www.thessalonica.org.ru/en/theano.html), which has some historical forms implemented both

Re: [XeTeX] [OT] Free fonts for fontspec examples?

2010-07-12 Thread Will Robertson
On 2010-07-12 22:01:42 +0930, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org said: On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 04:45:49PM +0930, Will Robertson wrote: 1. Does anyone know of any free fonts that have optical size variants? Latin Modern. Oh! It's like the purloined letter, hiding in plain sight. Thanks,

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] TeXLive Pretest - XeTeX segfaults on LInux 64

2010-07-12 Thread Jonathan Kew
I have just checked-in a patch to the xetex and texlive source trees to fix the xetex segfault that was occurring with \XeTeXdelcode on some systems. This brings the xetex version number to 0.9997.4. Anyone who has been experiencing this problem is welcome to build and test the new version to

Re: [XeTeX] [OT] Free fonts for fontspec examples?

2010-07-12 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:00:00AM +0930, Will Robertson wrote: On 2010-07-12 18:33:54 +0930, Alexey Kryukov anagn...@yandex.ru said: On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:45:49 +0930 Will Robertson wrote: - Historical style (hist) You can try my Theano Old Style font

Re: [XeTeX] [OT] Free fonts for fontspec examples?

2010-07-12 Thread Peter Baker
On 07/12/2010 11:44 AM, Will Robertson wrote: If you typeset the word λόγου with and without 'hist' you will see a difference. Thanks for the suggestion; unfortunately I think these fonts only have historical ligatures (hlig) rather than historical alternates (hist). Cheers, Will I've

Re: [XeTeX] [OT] Free fonts for fontspec examples?

2010-07-12 Thread David Perry
Will Robertson wrote: But please note that this feature is essentially deprecated: it is better for a font designer to use stylistic sets instead. Why? If they are historical forms isn't it better to give them a meaningful OpenType feature name? I think what Alexey is referring to is

[XeTeX] XeLaTex and Armenian

2010-07-12 Thread Adam McCollum
Hi, I'm new to XeLaTex, but I've done some simple documents with Greek, Arabic, and Hebrew. Today, however, I tried one with some Armenian text but had no luck at all. Armenian seems not to be recognized. What am I missing? An example is below. Thanks in advance for any help. Best

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTex and Armenian

2010-07-12 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Dear Adam -- I'm new to XeLaTex, but I've done some simple documents with Greek, Arabic, and Hebrew. Today, however, I tried one with some Armenian text but had no luck at all. Armenian seems not to be recognized. What am I missing? I don't know ! I know next to nothing about XeTeX,

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] TeXLive Pretest - XeTeX segfaults on LInux 64

2010-07-12 Thread Karl Berry
\setromanfont{XITS} \setmathfont{XITS Math} For the future: it is much easier to debug problems (any problems) if they can be reproduced using fonts that are included in TL. Installing system fonts is not easy, versions are likely to be different, etc. At any rate, hoping that

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTex and Armenian

2010-07-12 Thread Fr. Michael Gilmary
Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Dear Adam -- I'm new to XeLaTex, but I've done some simple documents with Greek, Arabic, and Hebrew. Today, however, I tried one with some Armenian text but had no luck at all. Armenian seems not to be recognized. What am I missing? I don't know ! I

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] TeXLive Pretest - XeTeX segfaults on LInux 64

2010-07-12 Thread Reinhard Kotucha
On 12 July 2010 Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote: Le 12/07/2010 10:21, ulrik.vi...@arcor.de a écrit : I wouldn't assume that the problem is with dynamic linking per se. The crash has probably nothing to do with dynamic linking indeed. Reinhard was replying to this paragraph: Would