Re: [XeTeX] generating a booklet pdf a4 to a5 in XeLaTeX

2013-12-02 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 01.12.2013 um 21:45 schrieb NMPOST7: ! Package polyglossia Error: The current roman font does not contain the Malaya lam script! (polyglossia)Please define \malayalamfont with \newfontfamily. I don't see this, I see that you are using a KOMA-Script option when loading

Re: [XeTeX] generating a booklet pdf a4 to a5 in XeLaTeX

2013-12-02 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 02.12.2013 um 08:22 schrieb NMPOST7: ! Package polyglossia Error: The current roman font does not contain the Malaya lam script! (polyglossia)Please define \malayalamfont with \newfontfamily. I am sure this happened with your older mal-sample.tex file… Your recent

Re: [XeTeX] generating a booklet pdf a4 to a5 in XeLaTeX

2013-12-01 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 01.12.2013 um 04:10 schrieb NMPOST7: As I am doing documentation in Malayalam using XeLaTeX I woul appreciate any help in changing the script that generates the booklet Have you tried the command 'texdoc -l booklet'? And have you tried the booklet package? It's also possible to try

Re: [XeTeX] generating a booklet pdf a4 to a5 in XeLaTeX

2013-12-01 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 01.12.2013 um 12:38 schrieb NMPOST7: It's also possible to try 'texdoc -l a5' and then try the a5comb package… How do this. I am not following the flow. This is no flow. Texdoc is a command to find documentation inside the TeX installation, Texdoc also allows to open a programme to

Re: [XeTeX] generating a booklet pdf a4 to a5 in XeLaTeX

2013-12-01 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 01.12.2013 um 21:10 schrieb NMPOST7: The document uses KOMASCRIPT. Then you just need to read the documentation! It has hundreds of options you can tweak. They are sorted in paragraphs in the documentation. And KOMASCRIPT has an eye on book binding (could be even two). (I don't remember

Re: [XeTeX] Problems in Devanagari typing.

2013-11-24 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 24.11.2013 um 15:43 schrieb S. venkataraman: \usepackage{ifxetex} \RequireXeTeX In your example you do not need these. The ifxetex package offers to \ifxetex … \else … \fi, is unknown to me, it looks like a command to be used in a class file. \usepackage{fontspec}

Re: [XeTeX] Problems in Devanagari typing.

2013-11-24 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 24.11.2013 um 17:27 schrieb Khaled Hosny: Huh? There were a few times problems with Indian scripts reported on this list and I have not yet realised a new version of XeTeX… Sure, would be nice if they were solved now! Are they? What are Mr. Venkataraman's problems based on then? --

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX -- arXiv.org

2013-11-15 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 15.11.2013 um 00:47 schrieb Michael Manthey: What do I do to get arXiv.org to accept TeX output from LyX, for example, XeTeX ? Why can't you ask arXiv.org this question? XeTeX has only one useful output format: PDF. There isn't so much we can do… -- Greetings Pete Email is a

Re: [XeTeX] Malayalam typesetting using XeLaTeX assigning a key to a character

2013-11-15 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 15.11.2013 um 18:04 schrieb NMPOST7: How can a key be assigned to a character? With http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsiid=ukelele. -- Mit evolutionären Grüßen Pete Evolutiono __o _o _ °\___o /0~ -\,

Re: [XeTeX] Malayalam typesetting using XeLaTeX

2013-11-14 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 14.11.2013 um 08:37 schrieb NMPOST7: Now, I need to fix the paper size 'texdoc tlmgr' will point you to sudo tlmgr option paper a4 -- Mit friedvollen Grüßen Pete 0 %-/\_//

Re: [XeTeX] Malayalam typesetting using XeLaTeX

2013-11-14 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 14.11.2013 um 11:22 schrieb Zdenek Wagner: I always set the paper size in the document via my zwpagelayout package, alternatively the geometry package can also be used. That much effort every time is not necessary. And it may fail to achieve the desired effect… The default set by tlmgr

Re: [XeTeX] Malayalam typesetting using XeLaTeX

2013-11-14 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 14.11.2013 um 12:55 schrieb Zdenek Wagner: Without the a4paper option the document would be set for letter size paper. When you later use your package or geometry then you cannot guarantee that every package loaded (afterwards) gets informed that it is working on a differently sized

Re: [XeTeX] Malayalam typesetting using XeLaTeX

2013-11-13 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 14.11.2013 um 00:28 schrieb NMPOST7: Thank you. However, where is devanagarinumerals.map located? /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/fonts/misc/xetex/fontmapping/xetex-devanagari/devanagarinumerals.map (I tried the whereis command to no avail. Whereis is meant to find a command line

Re: [XeTeX] how to set fixed font size and baselineskip

2013-09-25 Thread Peter Dyballa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 25.09.2013 um 17:23 schrieb François Patte: Is there a way to fix these sizes in a \newfontfamily command? No. Just use the NFSS2 means (\fontsize{44}{60pt}\selectfont or such)! - -- Greetings Pete Email is a wonderful thing for people

Re: [XeTeX] MAC OS X 10.8.5 - xdvipdfmx error usexobj (beamer - pgf)

2013-09-18 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 17.09.2013 um 23:04 schrieb Peter Dyballa: Another option is not to use the Singapore theme. It's only that theme that uses this headfade thing. And these themes have a bit different problems: AnnArbor, Bergen, CambridgeUS = pgfshadebmb@shadowball Darmstadt

Re: [XeTeX] Xetex to HTML ?

2013-09-17 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 17.09.2013 um 08:36 schrieb Fahad Al-Saidi: My book includes a lot of eps pictures. That cannot work! XeTeX, and pdfTeX, cannot directly include EPS files into the PDF output. Either create vector PDF versions of them or SVG formats, which might be the best option for HTML. Once you have

Re: [XeTeX] Xetex to HTML ?

2013-09-17 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 17.09.2013 um 19:56 schrieb Herbert Schulz: Both pdflatex and xelatex (actually xdvipdfmx) can convert eps-pdf on the fly in recent TeX Live (and other I suppose) distributions. Pdflatex, with the graphicx package, uses a restricted version of epstopdf to convert

Re: [XeTeX] MAC OS X 10.8.5 - xdvipdfmx error usexobj (beamer - pgf)

2013-09-17 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 17.09.2013 um 14:02 schrieb Federico Tramarin: Thak you for your test. This give me a bit of comfort ;) however, in my linux system I verified that all is going well. It is a XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-0.9998 (TeX Live 2012/Debian) It also works with This is XeTeX, Version

Re: [XeTeX] fontspec and languages

2013-09-10 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 10.09.2013 um 19:45 schrieb Javier Bezos: The question is: Does fontspec provide a way to set the language so that it's always active even if other default features are changed. Doesn't \defaultfontfeatures{…} provide what you need? -- Greetings Pete Swimming in money is dry fun.

Re: [XeTeX] Encoding: Identity-H to ansii

2013-08-06 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 06.08.2013 um 13:06 schrieb Loganathan, Ganesh (TNQ Software): Is there any option to change the encoding Identity-H to ansii or any in XeLaTeX with fontspec package option. No, FontForge is better suited for this purpose. -- Greetings Pete There is no national science just as there

Re: [XeTeX] Letterly fonts

2013-08-01 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 01.08.2013 um 05:37 schrieb Kai Hendry: What would you recommend I have for a font selection then? Specific for the script to be used, provided it has support for the language in use: http://www.wazu.jp/ -- Greetings Pete What is this talk of 'release?' Klingons do not make software

Re: [XeTeX] Font Location Issue?

2013-07-24 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 24.07.2013 um 21:24 schrieb Khaled Hosny: Does anyone knows other resource fork fonts that I can test? You just a need a Mac with a pre-installed Mac OS X… The *ITC TT fonts for iTunes are supplied by Elsner+Flake or ITC, the *LET fonts are supplied by ESSELTE LETRASET LTD. If you can't

Re: [XeTeX] Small caps not working consistently in TeX Live 2013

2013-06-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.06.2013 um 15:01 schrieb Herbert Schulz: PS: I'm not seeing problems with Small Caps, etc., with Minion Pro. By writing Minion Pro shows them too I meant that with Minion Pro the SmallCaps appear. XeTeX, Versions 3.1415926-2.2-0.9997.4 (TeX Live 2010) and 3.1415926-2.3-0.9997.5 (TeX

Re: [XeTeX] xelatex error: The font Code2000 cannot be found.

2013-06-28 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 27.06.2013 um 19:49 schrieb Peng Yu: Does anybody know how to fix the problem? Certainly! Once the font shows up in Font Book, then XeTeX will be able to use it. Is it visible in Font Book? -- Greetings Pete When you meet a master swordsman, show him your sword. When you meet a man

Re: [XeTeX] xelatex error: The font Code2000 cannot be found.

2013-06-28 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 28.06.2013 um 16:52 schrieb Peng Yu: Are there other fonts that can typeset Greek letters and Chinese characters? You can either search in Font Book for Greek and Chinese blocks or open the Character Palette (if you have never seen it, then google for it or such) and lookup Greek and

Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures

2013-06-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.06.2013 um 11:39 schrieb Philip Taylor: If I find no more informative replies by the time I am next online, I will investigate further and report back. The fontspec manual describes it. The keywords are rlig, hlig, clig, etc. They can be (de)activated in plain TeX as in:

Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX

2013-06-11 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 11.06.2013 um 16:26 schrieb John Was: I will investigate, but may have to reinstall (or install an updated version, which I guess I ought to as 2009 seems a long way off now). Instead of trying to install a newer xdvipdfmx (then this binary certainly won't work because it would search

Re: [XeTeX] Strange error

2013-06-09 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 09.06.2013 um 14:07 schrieb Sasi Kumar: ! LaTeX Error: File `etoolbox.sty' not found. This cannot happen on an intact system. You can try 'kpsewhich etoolbox.sty' and you can also try to locate that file with other means on your system (could be

Re: [XeTeX] bidi eso-pic are broken

2013-06-08 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 08.06.2013 um 11:03 schrieb Fahad Al-Saidi: in ubuntu 12.04 packages which used ( I am not sure here) TexLive 2009, the problem didn't happen.* I can confirm this, somehow. In TL '09 and '10 the greyish background picture is shifted out towards the left, its right edge is in the middle.

Re: [XeTeX] bidi eso-pic are broken

2013-06-06 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 06.06.2013 um 14:35 schrieb Khaled Hosny: I see now, I looked only into the first page. The amound of displacement depends on the margins of the document. I see the problem with bidi v12.2 (TL12) and v13.5 (miktex + TL13). So it is a bidi issue. I'd first try with a better test

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX, xeCJK, Japanese: some general questions

2013-06-05 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 05.06.2013 um 11:19 schrieb Wilfred van Rooijen: uplatex works with dvipdfmx - so I need to found out how I can include PDF figures Why should graphics/graphicx and \includegraphics not work? To cite from grfguide.pdf (texdoc graphics): The following driver options are declared

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX, xeCJK, Japanese: some general questions

2013-06-05 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 05.06.2013 um 14:05 schrieb Wilfred van Rooijen: I am using uplatex now, not xelatex For these the engine plays no role since they all produce (some kind of) DVI output. The convertor (or driver) used to convert DVI (or XDV) to another (possibly printable) format has to be passed to

Re: [XeTeX] Error of xeCJK and fonspec (Bokov Gleb - First Message)

2013-05-31 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 31.05.2013 um 14:10 schrieb Bruno Le Floch: This is caused by fontspec, I'd say, due to somewhat recent changes in the expl3 supporting package: \c_keys_code_root_tl was renamed \c__keys_code_root_tl at some point, to reflect its internal nature, and fontspec should not be using it.

Re: [XeTeX] Error of xeCJK and fonspec (Bokov Gleb - First Message)

2013-05-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.05.2013 um 19:50 schrieb Gurebu Bokofu: \documentclass{article}\usepackage{xeCJK} \begin{document}This is the XeLaTeX test.\end{document} With \listfiles as first line you would get a listing of all files used, when the TeX engine would finish the run. With TeX Live 2012,

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX bug with including jpg images

2013-05-12 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 12.05.2013 um 04:48 schrieb Persian TeX Group: test.zip Could you learn to create on Mac OS X ZIP archives with this command? zip whatever --exclude \*.DS_\* \*__MAC\* or zip whatever --exclude '*.DS_*' '*__MAC*' This creates clean ZIP archives without files like

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX bug with including jpg images

2013-05-12 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 12.05.2013 um 12:06 schrieb Philip TAYLOR: They do not pollute my file system, almost certainly because I do not extract them in the first place. And how do you achieve this? -- Greetings Pete For some reason, this fortune reminds everyone of Marvin Zelkowitz.

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX bug with including jpg images

2013-05-12 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 12.05.2013 um 16:05 schrieb Philip TAYLOR: I wouldn't dream of unzipping an archive without first looking inside; here be dragons, an unknown archive proclaims. I trust in ClamXav, that the downloaded file is not a virus… -- Greetings Pete I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity

Re: [XeTeX] longtable and RTL (Arabic)

2013-04-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.04.2013 um 21:07 schrieb Jens Bakker: But this second longtable has another appearance despite the fact that it has the same defined dimension. Because you're using \hspace{2cm}, which obviously is not used in the first table. It's also not clear what you try to achieve with this. At

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX 0.9999.1 released

2013-04-04 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 04.04.2013 um 18:00 schrieb Khaled Hosny: Ideally we should use BASE table to adjust base lines, but that needs a bit more work, so lets keep things like this for now. Maybe it's worth to study the Perl and shell scripts in pTeX that create MAP file fragments, TFM files, encodings, etc.

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX 0.9999.1 released

2013-04-03 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 03.04.2013 um 11:33 schrieb Jiang Jiang: What about the results from Core Text layout? In recent updates they seem to have improved (although I cannot read what is written). If you don't have a Mac around, I can run tests for you on intel Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) and on PPC Mac OS X

Re: [XeTeX] can't access superscript glyphs outside Latin-1?

2013-04-02 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 02.04.2013 um 12:27 schrieb Eric Abrahamsen: Can anyone give me any pointers? Which preamble are you using? Maybe that's the cause of your trouble… Can you use, for tests, with your preamble the superscript glyphs from, for example, the GNU Freefonts? DejaVu? Linux Libertine? The Antykwa

[XeTeX] Bug or design flaw in Polyglossia 2012/04/29 v1.2.1

2013-03-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Hello! With original XeTeX 0.9998 and recent (development) version 0..2 in TeX Live 2012 I get this PDF output from a Malayalam text: XeTeX-Malayalam-Bug.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document The empty boxes represent: Missing character: There is no . in font Rachana/

Re: [XeTeX] Bug or design flaw in Polyglossia 2012/04/29 v1.2.1

2013-03-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.03.2013 um 21:57 schrieb Ian-Mathew Hornburg: Font’s just not designed to be used with Latin Script. Exactly. But when Malayalam uses as punctuation or in calendar dates Latin script characters, why is Polyglossia using a Malayalam font to display these entities? -- Greetings Pete

Re: [XeTeX] Bug or design flaw in Polyglossia 2012/04/29 v1.2.1

2013-03-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.03.2013 um 22:15 schrieb Ian-Mathew Hornburg: \latinfont will likely attempt to select a font set up for the actual Latin language, since that’s a language supported by polyglossia. \begin{english} / \textenglish{} / etc. is gonna be what you want, per the polyglossia documentation.

Re: [XeTeX] Bug or design flaw in Polyglossia 2012/04/29 v1.2.1

2013-03-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.03.2013 um 22:15 schrieb Ian-Mathew Hornburg: \latinfont will likely attempt to select a font set up for the actual Latin language, since that’s a language supported by polyglossia. \begin{english} / \textenglish{} / etc. is gonna be what you want, per the polyglossia documentation. I

Re: [XeTeX] Bug or design flaw in Polyglossia 2012/04/29 v1.2.1

2013-03-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 30.03.2013 um 22:59 schrieb Arthur Reutenauer: Actually, it's even a little bit more complicated for the Latin script, which is considered the default script in Polyglossia, so in most cases there is no need to define \latinfont. But isn't it much nicer when one can choose a particular

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX 0.9999.0 released (OS X and png)

2013-03-29 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 29.03.2013 um 01:22 schrieb Simon Cozens: Except that PNG files don't get included in graphicx any more. Can you give a minimal example? Should there be a libpng in there? No. XeTeX is just including the PNG file as another future stream into the XDV output file (included fonts are also

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX 0.9999.0 released (OS X and png)

2013-03-29 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 29.03.2013 um 13:10 schrieb Zdenek Wagner: Thus I use basically the TL2012 environment and xdvipdfmx from TL 2012. You need to run sudo fmtutil-sys --byengine xetex The whole procedure you described can be simplified. Rename in /usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/x86_64 xetex and

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX inside chroot jail

2013-03-27 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 27.03.2013 um 10:07 schrieb Grigory Kalabin: I solved the problem. Here is the list of missing dependencies: - /bin/sh Needed by xetex (-shell-escape + invoking the output-driver?) and xdvipdfmx (PS - PDF conversion). How did you find the ldependecies? Using trace during a normal

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX inside chroot jail

2013-03-26 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 26.03.2013 um 20:52 schrieb Grigory Kalabin: When I run xdvipdfmx -vvv simple.xdv I have no warnings or errors and even get pdf, but process finished with 139 exit code. What am I doing wrong? Your old xdvipdfmx might be able to find some fonts inside the jailed TeX installation. This

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX inside chroot jail

2013-03-26 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 27.03.2013 um 01:16 schrieb Herbert Schulz: Huh!? Since when does fc-list have anything to do with OS X? Since when does this OS have a chroot jail? Maybe you haven't read this: TeX Live 2009/Debian -- Greetings Pete A census taker is a man who goes from house to house increasing the

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX CMUnicode

2013-03-12 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 11.03.2013 um 19:39 schrieb linecommander: How to make on the bold figure of the CMU Serif? Which CMU font *files* are you trying to use? And why? Can you give a minimal example of how you try to select the other font faces? -- Greetings Pete Perl—the only language that looks the same

Re: [XeTeX] Full justification of text

2013-02-25 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 25.02.2013 um 10:26 schrieb Sasi Kumar: Since there doesn't appear to be a command for full justification in LaTeX, (possibly since this is the default), I have been wondering how to do that in xelatex. Full justification is the default in XeLaTeX. What you seem to need is to tell

Re: [XeTeX] Full justification of text

2013-02-25 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 25.02.2013 um 10:53 schrieb Zdenek Wagner: If \setdefaultlanguage{malayalam} is added below \usepackage{polyglossia}, it looks much better even with the default =tolerance. There is just one line where hyphenation cannot be found. You can then use \- as a hint for the line breaking

Re: [XeTeX] Full justification of text

2013-02-25 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 25.02.2013 um 10:26 schrieb Sasi Kumar: (War of the Worlds) I think this needs to be marked for Polyglossia as an English text… -- Greetings Pete Don't force it; get a larger hammer. – Anthony's Law of Force

Re: [XeTeX] First message: Xelatex, pstricks and Mountain Lion

2013-01-14 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 14.01.2013 um 16:10 schrieb François Boone: gs requires X11. This indicates an incorrectly installed MacTeX. Ghostscript, gs, works well without X11. -- Greetings Pete Mac OS X is like a wigwam: no fences, no gates, but an apache inside.

Re: [XeTeX] bidi.sty for plain XeTeX

2012-12-22 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 22.12.2012 um 06:36 schrieb heer: that command doesn't work (at least with my 2009 version of TeX Live) At this time bidi was quite incomplete, maybe even faulty. I recommend to upgrade to TeX Live 2012 and after its installation to update it incrementally with tlmgr or other tools. --

Re: [XeTeX] New user of XeTeX: book in Esperanto (UTF-8)

2012-12-20 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 20.12.2012 um 14:46 schrieb Sian Mountbatten: Is it possible to use xetex to read UTF-8 text? Yes. And XeTeX is its own TeX engine which can use almost all LaTeX packages (some, like those for input or font encodings, are useless). More on the use of XeTeX can be found here:

Re: [XeTeX] Problem with Unicode 01F01B

2012-12-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.12.2012 um 14:22 schrieb Steve White: # freefont-20120503] /usr/bin/fontlint FreeSerif.ttf The OTF format was used by XeTeX. -- Greetings Pete Remember: use logout to logout. -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.:

Re: [XeTeX] typesetting hyphen in xelatex

2012-12-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.12.2012 um 18:34 schrieb Zdenek Wagner: If you still get them wrong, it may signal an error in the font used. Or the font used is a bit economical… (Are these characters far away from Latin and Indian character ranges needed at all for typesetting in Indian scripts? They just look good

Re: [XeTeX] Problem with Unicode 01F01B

2012-12-18 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 18.12.2012 um 12:37 schrieb Pander: AGL:texglyphlist.txt[1[/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/gnu-freefont/FreeSerif.otf](:)@9.96ptNATIVE-FONTMAP:[/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/gnu-freefont/FreeSerif.otf]/H/65536/0/0 On your system xdvipdfmx

Re: [XeTeX] Problem with Unicode 01F01B

2012-12-18 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 18.12.2012 um 15:47 schrieb Pander: How do I do that on Ubuntu GNU/Linux? At the moment I have: $ cat .fonts.conf ?xml version='1.0'? !DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd' fontconfig dir/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/dir

Re: [XeTeX] Problem with includegraphics of pdf file version 1.5 which was fixed when converting to version 1.4

2012-12-11 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 11.12.2012 um 20:44 schrieb Mike Maxwell: Fortunately, I discovered a work-around: pdf2ps Bad.pdf Good.ps pdf2ps Good.ps Good.pdf Apparently the round-trip strips out whatever the offending structures are. ps2pdf uses the ps2pdf14 shell script by default. This sets the PDF version:

Re: [XeTeX] Linux Libertine

2012-11-29 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 29.11.2012 um 13:17 schrieb Arash Zeini: Am I right in the assumption that both types are installed on my computer, but that the open type version is not being served or seen by XeTeX? Presumably. To correct the issue, search for the configuration files of libfontconfig and edit that

Re: [XeTeX] Linux Libertine

2012-11-27 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 27.11.2012 um 11:56 schrieb Arash Zeini: As I said the problems started with the inclusion of the libertine- and biolinum-type1 packages. On Linux you have the libfontconfig based font service. It uses commands like fc-cache, fc-list, etc. It has a configuration file named fonts.conf,

Re: [XeTeX] Linux Libertine

2012-11-27 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 27.11.2012 um 13:42 schrieb Arash Zeini: I have done this, but the problem persists. Were you suggesting that taking the above steps could possibly solve the bold italics problem? Yes. XeTeX has problems when the same font name exists more then once. I sort of understand this! The

Re: [XeTeX] Linux Libertine

2012-11-27 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 27.11.2012 um 16:25 schrieb Zdenek Wagner: Not necessarily. If the fonts reside in different directory trees and the search order is properly configured, fontconfig will find the right one. I'm not that sure about this… Libfontconfig lives off cache files. And this implies on a computer:

Re: [XeTeX] Linux Libertine

2012-11-26 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 26.11.2012 um 12:57 schrieb Arash Zeini: Has anyone else experienced similar problems? Why don't you show us your test document? -- Greetings Pete There are three types of people in this world: those who can count, and those who cannot.

Re: [XeTeX] Linux Libertine

2012-11-26 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 26.11.2012 um 16:29 schrieb Arash Zeini: OK, after this afternoon's update to TexLive the combining macron's problem is solved. But I still get bold italics, if I use \textit{}. Your font service must be confused or in some other disorder! I used your test file with TL 2012, 2011, and

Re: [XeTeX] Linux Libertine

2012-11-26 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 27.11.2012 um 00:57 schrieb Gildas Hamel: I use \usepackage[libertine={Ligatures=TeX, Numbers=OldStyle}]% {libertineotf} where I previously used Linux Libertine O. You're using a package (that its author has given up AFAIR) which has to load the Libertine OTF font files from

Re: [XeTeX] Is there an include difference between 0.9996 and -0.9998?

2012-11-23 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 23.11.2012 um 03:56 schrieb Mike Pomax Kamermans: what is the current recommended way to make these inclusions work without putting the .sty files in the same list as properly installed packages? Mimic the layout of the TeX distribution in your private area!

Re: [XeTeX] Is there an include difference between 0.9996 and -0.9998?

2012-11-23 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 23.11.2012 um 14:24 schrieb Susan Dittmar: kpsewhich -show-path=tex This can be mode more precise by inserting a -engine=xetex (or whatever) and more legible by adding | tr : '\n' | sort or | tr : '\012' | sort (depending on the version of tr) as in

Re: [XeTeX] horizontal alignment

2012-11-20 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.11.2012 um 15:07 schrieb Lucio Crusca: Any suggestion welcome, thanks in advance. It's not a problem with the XeTeX engine. If you use the pdfTeX engine you get the same results. If you substitute the \makebox with a \framebox you might get a hint for finding better LaTeX code. --

Re: [XeTeX] horizontal alignment

2012-11-20 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 20.11.2012 um 13:02 schrieb Lucio Crusca: Tried, but the only hint I got is that the problem is caused by something that is actually there but it's invisible... Then try to \usepackage{xcolor} and colorise the boxes to see which one produces which artefact. The minipage

Re: [XeTeX] horizontal alignment

2012-11-20 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.11.2012 um 16:46 schrieb Lucio Crusca: Any suggestion welcome, thanks in advance. provo.tex Description: Binary data -- Greetings Pete (This space left blank for technical reasons.) -- Subscriptions, Archive, and

Re: [XeTeX] [texhax] installing fonts in latex

2012-11-16 Thread Peter Dyballa
We are working in UNIX environment and we would like to install a custom font in latex. Is it possible to install a custom font? If so, could you please guide us through? In order to install a custom font what should be the file extension? It's probably best to read Philipp Lehman's Font

Re: [XeTeX] problem with the package polyglossia arabic and perpage

2012-11-15 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 16.11.2012 um 00:05 schrieb Jens Bakker: What can I do? Recover the previous version of bidi! The bidi file /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/latex/bidi/footnote-xetex-bidi.def uses since two weeks: \providecommand*{\c@zabspage}{\c@abspage}% which collides with this line

Re: [XeTeX] A strange error

2012-11-13 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 13.11.2012 um 05:35 schrieb V. Sasi Kumar: I understand that \documentclass is a genuine tex command. No. It's a genuine LaTeX command. -- Greetings Pete How many Microsoft engineers does it take to screw in a light-bulb? None. They just redefine dark as the new standard.

Re: [XeTeX] fatal format file error; fmtutil infinite recursion

2012-11-03 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 02.11.2012 um 20:14 schrieb Lars Huttar: In any case, I have the contents. kpsewhich said fmtutil.cnf was in /usr/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf I've posted it at http://pastebin.com/nE9P11FG This file is wrong! It contains pTeX based formats. They were introduced in TeX Live 2010. Some

Re: [XeTeX] fatal format file error; fmtutil infinite recursion

2012-11-01 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 01.11.2012 um 19:56 schrieb Lars Huttar: When I run xetex, I get the error Fatal format file error; I'm stymied This is obvious: the (/usr/local/texlive/20XY/texmf-var/web2c/xetex/)xetex.fmt file is not OK, does not match the xetex binary. The way to correct the problem is to rebuild the

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

2012-10-14 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 14.10.2012 um 16:30 schrieb Joe Corneli: However, if I extend the MWE there slightly, I can find prefix, but not quantitative. (My PDF reader is Evince on Ubuntu 12.04.) The capital Q is not what you see… GNU Emacs tells me: character:  (displayed as ) (codepoint

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, font protrusion, and the microtype package

2012-10-04 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 04.10.2012 um 10:06 schrieb Philip TAYLOR: Could anyone please tell me the XeTeX primitives into which the Microtype package hooks in order to enable font protrusion ? Could it be sufficient to read microtype.sty? You could also send a message to its author… -- Greetings Pete Real

Re: [XeTeX] Beamer handout issue

2012-09-23 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 23.09.2012 um 00:20 schrieb Karljurgen Feuerherm: Thanks Could you learn not usurp a thread, please? -- Greetings Pete We have to expect it, otherwise we would be surprised. -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.:

Re: [XeTeX] FreeSerif not working for me in Devanagari

2012-09-12 Thread Peter Dyballa
Hello! To me it seems that some problems with XeTeX come from using inappropriate fonts, fonts which don't have the glyphs needed, don't support a particular script or the language which will be used with the particular script to typeset the text. Partly it's the fault of the users not

Re: [XeTeX] Multilingual verbatim

2012-08-23 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 23.08.2012 um 16:07 schrieb hanne...@staff.uni-marburg.de hanne...@staff.uni-marburg.de: \newfontfamily\sanskritfont[Script=Devanagari,Mapping=RomDev]{Everson Mono} Isn't this mapping meant for input in Latin characters (the Rom part in its name) and output in Devanagari? -- Greetings

Re: [XeTeX] Multilingual verbatim

2012-08-22 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 22.08.2012 um 17:14 schrieb Zdenek Wagner: BTW: I am not aware of any monospaced font containing Devanagari and Arabic. I admit that monospaced Arabic might look ugly. Lucida Sans Typewriter and DejaVu Sans Mono have both Arabic. -- Greetings Pete Think of XML as Lisp for COBOL

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX sanskrit: which font

2012-08-15 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 15.08.2012 um 16:24 schrieb Philip TAYLOR: I wonder why Mozilla chose to use Aurora rather than the more common word ... Aurora is gazing every morning over the eastern horizon… (not everywhere, but in the majority of earthly places) -- Greetings ]

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX sanskrit : how to sart

2012-08-14 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 14.08.2012 um 19:51 schrieb Helios: Dear All, Could you start a new thread instead of usurping an existing one? -- Greetings Pete These are my principles and if you don't like them... well, I have others. - Groucho Marx

Re: [XeTeX] The future of XeTeX

2012-08-02 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 01.08.2012 um 13:37 schrieb Simon Spiegel: Similar with microtype for XeTeX. Until I'm mistaken we still only have parts of microtype implemented for XeTeX and only in a beta version of microtype. Again I hear that this should be doable for XeTeX but nothing has happened so far. XeTeX

Re: [XeTeX] The future of XeTeX

2012-08-02 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 02.08.2012 um 14:53 schrieb Martin Schröder: AFAIK only protusion. I doubt that expansion is possible with XeTeX. It's just as with DVI output. (I presume DVI and XDV must be related somehow.) -- Mit friedvollen Grüßen Pete Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a night, but set a

Re: [XeTeX] The future of XeTeX

2012-07-31 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 31.07.2012 um 01:19 schrieb Zdenek Wagner: Yes, I know. Similarly as XeTeX can set \pdfpageheight and \pdfpagewidth (or use \special{papersize=...}) there might be a similar \special for setting PDF version and compression but such \special's do not exist. For very good reason!

Re: [XeTeX] The future of XeTeX

2012-07-30 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 31.07.2012 um 00:40 schrieb Zdenek Wagner: 4. Setting PDF version: does XeTeX support \pdfminorversion and does it send a proper command to the xdv-pdf driver? I have not found such feature in the dvipdfmx manual. XeTeX cannot because it produces XDV, but xdvipdfmx (invoke it with --help)

Re: [XeTeX] Can't compile Chinese in Mountain Lion OS X

2012-07-29 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 29.07.2012 um 13:41 schrieb Alan Hoenig: \def\testfonti{STKaiti}% a `large' font; 32493 characters \def\testfontii{Kaiti SC Bold}% a `small' font; 8535 characters To me, not having Mac OS X 10.8, it looks as if the small font is a Small Caps font. It can't have an Unicode encoding. To use

Re: [XeTeX] Footnote rule line without any footnote text material

2012-07-14 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 13.07.2012 um 01:01 schrieb Andy Black: We still get the footnotes line on the second page. And I can make the line vanish! Just insert \newpage after the chapter 1.2 and its introductory text which end with and the personal endings:, later followed by a longtable. I.e., I put the

Re: [XeTeX] Footnote rule line without any footnote text material

2012-07-14 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 13.07.2012 um 01:01 schrieb Andy Black: I hope you can find something based on this simpler file. Maybe I got it! I think the translation from XML to LaTeX has a fault and it manifests itself in line #95: \penalty1\penalty1\noindent In the case of the cooccurrence of two

Re: [XeTeX] Footnote rule line without any footnote text material

2012-07-13 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 13.07.2012 um 02:36 schrieb Ross Moore: This is all pretty-much speculation. I tried to separate the one longtable near the place where the footnote happens in the text – no change. (I also separated all other longtables.) I also have no idea of a specialised \tracing command for this...

Re: [XeTeX] Footnote rule line without any footnote text material

2012-07-12 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 12.07.2012 um 02:02 schrieb Andy Black: Try using the attached TeX file now. What is the intention of \begin{MainFont} \end{MainFont} and why are you using \font\MainFont=Times New Roman at 11pt when you have already set Times New Roman as your text body's main

Re: [XeTeX] Footnote rule line without any footnote text material

2012-07-12 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 12.07.2012 um 17:38 schrieb Andy Black: I'm not recalling the exact reason why I used MainFont but I do know that the \font\MainFont=/font family name/ at /pointsize/pt was a way to allow for varying font families and point sizes, including larger or smaller than the three I

Re: [XeTeX] xelatex.fmt doesn't match xetex.pool

2012-07-09 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 09.07.2012 um 04:04 schrieb Gareth Hughes: I thought fmtutil-local.cnf was just for customisation. Indeed! And one customisation could have been to comment XeTeX related lines copied from somewhere which made tlmgr remove or comment the lines in the generated fmtutil.cnf. I thought you

Re: [XeTeX] Footnote rule line without any footnote text material

2012-07-09 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 09.07.2012 um 23:15 schrieb Andy Black: I'm installing TeX Live 2012 now and will try and see what happens. It will be quite similar, the difference between TL '11 and TL '12 is very small at present. -- Greetings Pete \ _\ O _ |o \ _\\_/-\='

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