Hi Zdenek,
I do not think anybody disputes the fact that characters are not glyphs.
The confusion arises that a character in CS is well defined and has a
history.
To be more exact it is just one byte in size so that there can be only
256 characters.
Keith J. Schultz wrote:
Me I am almost 50 and have been around computers since the 80s.
First was a Apple IIe, at the university we used a main frame.
My first computer was a Clary 404, with 8K of magnetic core memory,
a magnetic card reader and/or teletype as input device,
Keith J. Schultz wrote:
I do not think anybody disputes the fact that characters are not glyphs.
The confusion arises that a character in CS is well defined and has a
history.
To be more exact it is just one byte in size so that there can be only
256 characters.
bhutex wrote:
I don't really understand why this discussion.
Have not you read the article in TUG Boat. Don is planning to bring out a new
TeX called iTeX*. Actually the * is a sound of bell - ding!!
But it may not be free. But it can handle all types of output formats, all
languages etc.
2011/11/19 Ross Moore ross.mo...@mq.edu.au:
Hi Zdenek,
On 19/11/2011, at 10:30 AM, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
/ActualText is your friend here.
You tag the content and provide the string that you want to appear
with Copy/Paste as the value associated to a dictionary key.
I do not know whether
2011/11/19 Keith J. Schultz keithjschu...@web.de:
Hi Zdenek,
I do not think anybody disputes the fact that characters are not
glyphs.
The confusion arises that a character in CS is well defined and has a
history.
To be more exact it is just one byte in size so that
Am Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:30:58 +0100 schrieb Zdenek Wagner:
/ActualText is your friend here.
You tag the content and provide the string that you want to appear
with Copy/Paste as the value associated to a dictionary key.
I do not know whether the PDF specification has evolved since I read
it
2011/11/19 Ulrike Fischer ne...@nililand.de:
Am Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:30:58 +0100 schrieb Zdenek Wagner:
/ActualText is your friend here.
You tag the content and provide the string that you want to appear
with Copy/Paste as the value associated to a dictionary key.
I do not know whether the
Dear Folks,
I have just received an email about a free Unicode font: Erler Dingbat.
The web page at
http://ffdingbatsfont.com/erler/index.html
states, inter alia,
Quote
For the first time in the entire history of Unicode standard, the full
encoding range for dingbats (U + 2700 –
Karljürgen G. Feuerherm, PhD
Undergraduate Advisor
Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies
Wilfrid Laurier University
75 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5
Tel. (519) 884-1970 x3193
Fax (519) 883-0991 (ATTN Arch. Classics)
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 3:39 AM, in message
OUCH! I have been hit by a veteran truck drivers truck. ;-))
I concede!
I am curious if many still know what a XX-bit word is. Is that term even still
used?
Turn Unicode needs to be clean up it has become to fragmented.
regards
Keith.
Am 19.11.2011 um 09:39 schrieb Philip TAYLOR:
Am 19.11.2011 um 13:51 schrieb Zdenek Wagner:
2011/11/19 Keith J. Schultz keithjschu...@web.de:
As for getting junk when copying unicode, just copy between to text
using different fonts, where one font does
not contain the glyph.
When performing copypaste or text search
On 2011-11-19 14:25, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
Perhaps this can be of use:
https://github.com/wspr/fontspec/issues/121
Am 19.11.2011 um 13:51 schrieb Zdenek Wagner:
2011/11/19 Keith J. Schultz keithjschu...@web.de
mailto:keithjschu...@web.de:
As for getting junk when copying
2011/11/19 Pander pan...@users.sourceforge.net:
On 2011-11-19 14:25, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
Perhaps this can be of use:
https://github.com/wspr/fontspec/issues/121
As Khaled wrote, it belongs to the engine. ZWJ and ZWNJ are used in
Indic scripts and they work fine since I started to use
Print shops often require pdf files containing color to be encoded
using CMYK colorspace values.
Version 2.11 of the xcolor package says that cmyk is supported by
Postscripts directly (page 8). So if I simply specify
\usepackage[cmyk]{xcolor}
in the preamble and compile with XeTeX/XeLaTeX, is
Am 19.11.2011 um 23:03 schrieb Daniel Greenhoe:
Version 2.11 of the xcolor package says that cmyk is supported by
Postscripts directly (page 8). So if I simply specify
\usepackage[cmyk]{xcolor}
in the preamble and compile with XeTeX/XeLaTeX, is that sufficient to
ensure the resulting pdf
2011/11/19 Daniel Greenhoe dgreen...@gmail.com:
Print shops often require pdf files containing color to be encoded
using CMYK colorspace values.
Version 2.11 of the xcolor package says that cmyk is supported by
Postscripts directly (page 8). So if I simply specify
\usepackage[cmyk]{xcolor}
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Peter Dyballa peter_dyba...@web.de wrote:
It seems so!
XeTeX/XeLaTeX can be invoked with --no-pdf.
The created XDV file gives hints that CMYK is used (color push cmyk 4
values).
That is good news. And that was a clever method for checking. I did
not think of
2011/11/20 Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wag...@gmail.com:
No.
LCMS is a good choice.
LCMS is Little Color Management System?
(http://www.color.org/opensource.xalter)?
1. It ensures that the colours you specify in the document will be converted
to cmyk.
However, the corrections are wrong.
2.
2011/11/20 Daniel Greenhoe dgreen...@gmail.com:
2011/11/20 Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wag...@gmail.com:
No.
LCMS is a good choice.
LCMS is Little Color Management System?
(http://www.color.org/opensource.xalter)?
Yes.
1. It ensures that the colours you specify in the document will be converted
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Keith J. Schultz keithjschu...@web.de wrote:
OUCH! I have been hit by a veteran truck drivers truck. ;-))
I concede!
I am curious if many still know what a XX-bit word is. Is that term even
still used?
It will fade out of use until someone decides we need
2011/11/20 Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wag...@gmail.com:
Printed colour samples are commercially available.
They are printed on different types of papers and CMYK values are given.
Is there any such thing available in book form? That is, could you
make a recommendation? Here in Taiwan, there is
I am using pstricks to produce a book cover. Before sending it off to
the print house, I want it exactly (or with a very tight tolerance
anyways) centered on an A3 sized page. To help with that, I use the
geometry package. In an effort to check if everything is really
centered, I use the showframe
On 11/19/2011 10:39 PM, Daniel Greenhoe wrote:
But one thing that concerns me is that there
is an extra vertical line that appears about 2.5mm to the right of the
text body frame box. Can somebody tell me, what is that line? Can I
eliminate it somehow?
It's the showframe option. There is
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Axel E. Retif axel.re...@mac.com wrote:
It's the showframe option.
There is also a very thin horizontal line at the top of the page.
Commenting out showframe, both disappear.
But I want the showframe option. In particular, I want the geometry
package to put a
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Daniel Greenhoe dgreen...@gmail.com wrote:
But one thing that concerns me is that there
is an extra vertical line that appears about 2.5mm to the right of the
text body frame box. Can somebody tell me, what is that line? Can I
eliminate it somehow? Here is a
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