Re: [XeTeX] PDF V1.6 too recent

2013-01-11 Thread Chris Travers
area. Very annoying though I agree. Best wishes, Chris travers Thought that was cool? Try the iPhone App or Grab Some Stickers. App Store PayPal $1/sticker Play it again or Create one yourself. Very useful. Not. Philip Taylor

Re: [XeTeX] The future of XeTeX

2012-08-04 Thread Chris Travers
. Personally, I would like to help, but I have to wait until Autumn: in the summer one cannot think clearly especially when it is too hot. Great. In your estimation, what can the community do to help support you getting started here? Best Wishes, Chris Travers

Re: [XeTeX] The future of XeTeX

2012-08-02 Thread Chris Travers
it is at though. Best Wishes, Chris Travers -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-19 Thread Chris Travers
128-bit words and then will pop in again ;-) Best Wishes, Chris Travers -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-15 Thread Chris Travers
. The advantage of this approach is that people who don't want to worry about what sort of whitespace is in text files they are inputting don't have to worry about it, and that those who do have an easy way of determining if a layout issue is caused by non-breaking spaces. Best Wishes, Chris Travers

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-15 Thread Chris Travers
2011/11/15 Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wag...@gmail.com: 2011/11/15 Mike Maxwell maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu: On 11/15/2011 5:39 AM, Chris Travers wrote: My recommendation is: 1)  Default to handling all white space as it exists now. 2)  Provide some sort of switch, whether to the execution of XeTeX

Re: [XeTeX] nbsp; in XeTeX

2011-11-14 Thread Chris Travers
strike against that language, for example, from a semantic clarity perspective despite the fact that this was ironically a decision that was made in order to support semantic clarity. TeX files are never simple plain text files, and I don't think we should pretend that they are. Best Wishes, Chris

Re: [XeTeX] nbsp; in XeTeX

2011-11-14 Thread Chris Travers
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Petr Tomasek toma...@etf.cuni.cz wrote: Using different color. Do we really want to tie XeTeX users to a small number of editors? Chris Travers -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http

Re: [XeTeX] nbsp; in XeTeX

2011-11-14 Thread Chris Travers
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 2:35 AM, Philip TAYLOR p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk wrote: Chris Travers wrote: On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Petr Tomasektoma...@etf.cuni.cz  wrote: Using different color. Do we really want to tie XeTeX users to a small number of editors? No.  But nor do we want

Re: [XeTeX] nbsp; in XeTeX

2011-11-14 Thread Chris Travers
, actually break lines? Best Wishes, Chris Travers -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] nbsp; in XeTeX

2011-11-14 Thread Chris Travers
in comparison to VIM. Best Wishes, Chris Travers -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] nbsp; in XeTeX

2011-11-14 Thread Chris Travers
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 3:26 AM, Philip TAYLOR p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk wrote: Chris Travers wrote: Ok, so why don't we have a similar macro here?  Something like: \obeynbsps See above : there are /some/ things that TeX does that transcend category codes (which are the basis for \obeylines

Re: [XeTeX] nbsp; in XeTeX

2011-11-14 Thread Chris Travers
of a feature which is on by default, and requires color highlighting of whitespace in an editor to debug. If it is off by default, then when you see the on switch, at least you know where problems might be. Best Wishes, Chris Travers -- Subscriptions

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] Future state of XeTeX in TeXLive

2011-10-29 Thread Chris Travers
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 1:57 AM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk wrote: Mu EUR 0,02 : Chris Travers wrote: A couple things I'd point out.  TeX makes it possible to create beautiful books.  LaTeX makes it possible to create beautiful books easily. but encourages users

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-21 Thread Chris Travers
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:22 AM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk wrote: Chris Travers wrote: If TexLive had been around in 2002 and was statically linking to zlib, it would have been affected too.  TeX does not link against zlib but LaTeX and XeTeX do. Similarly

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-20 Thread Chris Travers
2011/10/20 Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wag...@gmail.com: 2011/10/20 Petr Tomasek toma...@etf.cuni.cz: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 03:14:56PM +0200, Ulrike Fischer wrote: Am Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:43:57 -0700 schrieb Chris Travers: This has all been very helpful.  At least I have things narrowed down

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-20 Thread Chris Travers
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:05 AM, Peter Dyballa peter_dyba...@web.de wrote: Am 20.10.2011 um 12:53 schrieb Chris Travers: However, statically linking things strikes me as even worse from a stability/security perspective (which is what is critical with server software).  It means

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-20 Thread Chris Travers
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Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-20 Thread Chris Travers
for such a tool. The thing is, though, just because it's a good tool for some environments doesn't mean it's a good tool for everything. Not everything is a nail, and not even all nails need the same kinds of hammers.. Best wishes, Chris Travers

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-20 Thread Chris Travers
PCI-DSS compliance quite a bit harder and more burdensome. Best Wishes, Chris Travers -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-20 Thread Chris Travers
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Peter Dyballa peter_dyba...@web.de wrote: Am 20.10.2011 um 13:24 schrieb Chris Travers: So if libz needs a security update, I can get it without replacing everything else What do you gain with that? What is the difference between overwriting 5 MB or 50

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-20 Thread Chris Travers
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Peter Dyballa peter_dyba...@web.de wrote: Am 20.10.2011 um 16:12 schrieb Chris Travers: Not disturbing other dependencies that production software depends on. It can't. It does not carry shared libraries, DLLs, or such, that make ld_config or such go

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-20 Thread Chris Travers
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Peter Dyballa peter_dyba...@web.de wrote: Am 20.10.2011 um 16:54 schrieb Chris Travers: One of the other commentors talks about documents that don't render on all versions of TexLive.  If a client of mine is depending on this working, upgrading the various

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-20 Thread Chris Travers
. It seems for those of us with a longer memory, extensive static linking is asking for trouble Best Wishes, Chris Travers -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-19 Thread Chris Travers
it for another 5-6 (For example RedHat supports versions of PostgreSQL that are up to 7 years old, backporting security fixes from newer ones). Obviously things are more dire than that with RHEL 6 and TexLive... Best Wishes, Chris Travers -- Subscriptions

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-19 Thread Chris Travers
must. The fact that they are outdated makes no difference. Best Wishes, Chris Travers -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-19 Thread Chris Travers
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Ulrike Fischer ne...@nililand.de wrote: Am Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:59:16 -0700 schrieb Chris Travers: This matches my needs very well.  If my clients are running accounting systems, the last thing I want is an upgrade of TexLive to break their ability to generate

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-19 Thread Chris Travers
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 6:10 AM, Peter Dyballa peter_dyba...@web.de wrote: Am 19.10.2011 um 12:19 schrieb Chris Travers: If RHEL 6 (released about a year ago) is sticking to TeXLive 2007, we all have problems. The only problem is that of understanding. It's like the fifth wheel

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-19 Thread Chris Travers
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 7:13 AM, Chris Travers chris.trav...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Joseph Wright joseph.wri...@morningstar2.co.uk wrote: The 'expiry date' in LaTeX2e was there for good reasons, and reflected a desire to avoid buggy and out-of-date software

[XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-18 Thread Chris Travers
Hi all; I need to generate the xelatex.fmt file. Apparently Fedora doesn't create these files. It is not a new issue, I have had issues with the latex.fmt files not created in the past. Is there any way to manually create this file? Best Wishes, Chris Travers

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-18 Thread Chris Travers
. ### This is a summary of all `failed' messages and warnings: `xetex -ini -jobname=xelatex -progname=xelatex -etex xelatex.ini' failed Any idea of what I do about this? Best Wishes, Chris Travers -- Subscriptions, Archive

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-18 Thread Chris Travers
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 6:07 AM, Susan Dittmar susan.ditt...@gmx.de wrote: Quoting Chris Travers (chris.trav...@gmail.com): ! LaTeX source files more than 5 years old!. Any idea of what I do about this? I did not follow the thread closely. Are you the administrator of the system? If so, I'd

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-18 Thread Chris Travers
argue about whether these distros are too shy about upgrades, but users don't like to hear that their shiny rpm or .deb requires that they also track down large dependencies from external sources not in any repository for their distro. Best Wishes, Chris Travers

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-18 Thread Chris Travers
in these environments? Best Wishes, Chris Travers -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-18 Thread Chris Travers
and outlined why, and folks decided to push the issue. What I don't understand is what is to be gained by pushing the issue. Best Wishes, Chris Travers -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

[XeTeX] Runaway argument issues

2011-10-11 Thread Chris Travers
characters. Removing the \textbf{} from around the problem phrase ends up having it rendered as Descripciendhead, suggesting several more bytes are being assumed to be part of the character than actually are. Best Wishes, Chris Travers

Re: [XeTeX] Runaway argument issues

2011-10-11 Thread Chris Travers
Two further notes: I am using utf-8 as the input encoding, and setting a main font doesn't help. Also [chris@chris-dev2 xetex_test]$ rpm -q texlive-xetex texlive-xetex-2007-51.fc13.i686 Best Wishes, Chris Travers -- Subscriptions, Archive

Re: [XeTeX] Runaway argument issues

2011-10-11 Thread Chris Travers
beyond the scope of this list :-) Best Wishes, Chris Travers -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] Runaway argument issues

2011-10-11 Thread Chris Travers
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Peter Dyballa peter_dyba...@web.de wrote: Am 12.10.2011 um 00:10 schrieb Chris Travers: texlive-xetex-2007-51.fc13.i686 Now that the 2011 is almost finished you could consider updating to TeX Live 2011… Less of an option when trying to support applications