Re: Google Disk (was: XeLaTeX to Word/OpenOffice - the state of the art?)

2019-03-17 Thread Andrew Cunningham
gt; > K > > > >> You should use the pdfx package and prepare for PDF/A-2b or -2u. > >> This fixes many of these things that affect conversions, as well as > Accessibility and Archivability. > >> > >> It's not fully tagged PDF, but handles many other technical issues. > >> > > > Hope this helps. > > Ross > > -- Andrew Cunningham lang.supp...@gmail.com

Re: [XeTeX] discovering script support

2016-06-20 Thread Andrew Cunningham
On Tuesday, 21 June 2016, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wag...@gmail.com> wrote: > otfinfo --scripts font-file.otf ... unless the font is using the DFLT script -- Andrew Cunningham lang.supp...@gmail.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List in

Re: [XeTeX] graphite-info.tex

2016-06-16 Thread Andrew Cunningham
or: > > \font\x = "MyFont:Ligatures=Common;Ligatures=Rare;Ligatures=Historical" > > To work around this, I _think_ it also lets you specify features by ID (like for OpenType fonts), so you should be able to do > > \font\x = "Padauk:+ulon" > >

Re: [XeTeX] New feature REQUEST for xetex

2016-02-23 Thread Andrew Cunningham
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Re: [XeTeX] New feature REQUEST for xetex

2016-02-22 Thread Andrew Cunningham
Simon, On 23 February 2016 at 14:12, Simon Cozens <si...@simon-cozens.org> wrote: > On 23/02/2016 13:54, Andrew Cunningham wrote: > > PDF/UA for instance leaves the question deliberately ambigious. > > ActualText is the way to make the content accessible, but develope

Re: [XeTeX] New feature REQUEST for xetex

2016-02-22 Thread Andrew Cunningham
to PDFs that doesn't suffer the same problems as PDF documents. Andrew -- Andrew Cunningham lang.supp...@gmail.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] New feature REQUEST for xetex

2016-02-22 Thread Andrew Cunningham
will >>> need to check out and build the code from there. After some time, if no >>> major problems show up, I expect to merge it to the master branch, and then >>> to the TeXLive source tree. >>> >>> Feedback welcome.. >>> >>> JK >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: >>> http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex >>> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: >> http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex >> >> > > > > -- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > > > > > -- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > > -- Andrew Cunningham lang.supp...@gmail.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] New feature REQUEST for xetex

2016-02-22 Thread Andrew Cunningham
It would probably more than double, i was under the impression that ActualText was a tag attrubute, so extensive tagging would be needed, and actual text added to the tags. But the question is how to practically make use of ActualText if there is a visible text layer. PDF/UA for instance leaves

Re: [XeTeX] stacking diacritics without mark-to-mark

2014-03-12 Thread Andrew Cunningham
Although personaly I'd consider such a solution a poor hack compared to a well designed font that is fit for purpose. Andrew On 13/03/2014 10:51 AM, maxwell maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu wrote: On 2014-03-12 14:47, Joshua and Amy wrote: I'm typesetting with XeLaTeX, using fontspec, and calling a

Re: [XeTeX] xetex and the unicode bidirectional algorithm.

2013-12-10 Thread Andrew Cunningham
8 On 11/12/2013 5:27 AM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@cscott.net wrote: ..which is indeed the issue I am attempting to deal with (trying to put the discussion back on track) -- a bunch of user authored content which looks correct to a native speaker when using the unicode bidi algorithm

Re: [XeTeX] xetex and the unicode bidirectional algorithm.

2013-12-04 Thread Andrew Cunningham
the language tags to the article titles. Hope this helps regards Keith. -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Andrew Cunningham Project Manager, Research

Re: [XeTeX] Fwd: Telugu typesetting

2013-06-16 Thread Andrew Cunningham
Is there documentation available that lists which zcripfs are supportsd, or is it a case of just testing to se if various scripts work? On 17/06/2013 8:28 AM, Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wag...@gmail.com wrote: You should write Script=Telugu with capital T in your font declaration. 2013/6/16 Jamal

Re: [XeTeX] Fonts without proper combining diacritic placement

2013-06-02 Thread Andrew Cunningham
On 03/06/2013 1:24 AM, BPJ b...@melroch.se wrote: Sure, but you also need to find fonts which contain the characters you need! Very true. But usually I've found that combining diacritic support isn't the limitation, its acfually finding the necessary base characters and glyph combinations I

Re: [XeTeX] Fonts without proper combining diacritic placement

2013-06-01 Thread Andrew Cunningham
Ir is still better to use fonts that have properly designed diacritics than rely on a hack for diacritic placement jn fonts that weren't designed for it. On 02/06/2013 3:49 AM, Dominik Wujastyk wujas...@gmail.com wrote: Sometimes dreams come true :-)

Re: [XeTeX] how to do (better) searchable PDFs in xelatex?

2012-10-14 Thread Andrew Cunningham
This is the nature of the PDF format. It is a preprint format the focuses on glyphs rather than characters It partly depends on the font, and the OT features being used. In theory you can have ActualText in the PDF, but once you move to complex scripts all bets are off. Without a complete

Re: [XeTeX] how to do (better) searchable PDFs in xelatex?

2012-10-14 Thread Andrew Cunningham
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Re: [XeTeX] VIQR pre-processor wrotten in (Xe)TeX ?

2011-11-25 Thread Andrew Cunningham
hard, and perhaps impossible, for her to do the same in Unicode. ** Phil. -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Andrew Cunningham Senior Project Manager, Research and Development Vicnet

Re: [XeTeX] VIQR pre-processor wrotten in (Xe)TeX ?

2011-11-23 Thread Andrew Cunningham
/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/fonts/misc/xetex/fontmapping there are some mapping examples that you can see. -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.:  http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Andrew Cunningham Senior Project Manager

Re: [XeTeX] Greek XeLaTeX

2010-10-12 Thread Andrew Cunningham
. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.:  http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Andrew Cunningham Senior Project Manager, Research and Development Vicnet State Library of Victoria