[XeTeX] Fwd: [wspr/fontspec] add optical bounds to fontspec (#282)

Hi, (Forwarding this on on behalf of a fontspec user who would like a new feature. Not currently subscribed so please CC me directly if you have further comment.) TL;DR: +lfbd feature works in XeTeX but +rtbd does not. If there are further requests for fontspec OpenType feature support, please

Re: [XeTeX] why does Latin Modern Mono have some stretch and shrink with XeTeX ?

Hi all, I'm not able to check this minute, but I wonder if lmmono is being "special-cases" by luaotfload -- would explain the results you're seeing. In fontspec if you load it with \setmonofont the stretch and shrink should be forced to zero, but I can agree it would be good to get to the

Re: [XeTeX] :letterspace oddities

On 26 Aug 2016, at 2:32 AM, Philip Taylor wrote: > > 2) \fontdimen 2 is not affected by the :letterspace parameter; arguably it > should be, such that interword space is stretched in proportion to > interletter space (and perhaps \fontdimens 3, 4 & 7 should be modified as

Re: [XeTeX] fontspec error (maybe?), but only in class file

Hi Pat, Sorry for the inconvenience. > On 23 May 2016, at 11:41 AM, Patrick Carr wrote: > > Did I just miss or screw up an update or something? I tried searching > on the errors and the best I could describe it here, on stack > exchange, and the googles, but maybe I was

Re: [XeTeX] potential new feature: \XeTeXgenerateactualtext

On 25 Feb 2016, at 8:33 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote: > > I'd guess it has always been possible, in principle, to attach ActualText to > math at the macro level, using \specials{}s to write the necessary PDF code > directly. But I confess I haven't really looked into what this

Re: [XeTeX] potential new feature: \XeTeXgenerateactualtext

Hi Ross, Great to hear from you. I thought of you straight away when writing my email :) > On 25 Feb 2016, at 11:35 AM, Ross Moore wrote: > > You have to be *very* careful with /ActualText, since it must be done using > PDFdoc encoding, > as it becomes part of the page

Re: [XeTeX] potential new feature: \XeTeXgenerateactualtext

On 24 Feb 2016, at 2:20 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote: > > For a document that wants some other kind of "ActualText", there's going to > need to be pretty detailed markup in the source, I think. (E.g. each word, or > similar unit, will need to be tagged to provide the desired

Re: [XeTeX] Issue with Old Italic script & fontspec

Hi David, > On 21 Feb 2016, at 11:36 AM, David J. Perry wrote: > > Simon kindly tested my font in the SILE editor. The script and language > settings and the stylistic set all work as expected there. So it seems the > font is not the source of the problems I'm

[XeTeX] Proposal for extensible arrows

Hi all, Some recent discussions about unicode mathematics and so on brought up the following issue. I thought it might be good to raise here in case it sparks anything. If not, no harm done :) In the current unicode/OpenType maths support in XeTeX and LuaTeX, with proper setup of \Udelcode

Re: [XeTeX] Handling of combining and variant selector characters in math

On 11 Feb 2016, at 8:06 AM, David J. Perry wrote: > > I looked in a font editor at the font (XITS) that was used to produce the > sample PDF. As far as I can see, it has no support for combining marks or > variation selectors of the sort that I would expect, based

Re: [XeTeX] Command \providelength already defined

On 11 Feb 2016, at 4:27 PM, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > > ! LaTeX Error: Command \providelength already defined. > Or name \end... illegal, see p.192 of the manual. How ironic… it should have been defined with \providecommand in both cases! (If they both behave

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks

On 15 Apr 2014, at 9:49 am, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:58:23PM +0100, Philip Taylor wrote: Why are these key XeTeX primitives (\XeTeXprotrudechars, \rpcode, etc) not documented in /The XƎTEX reference guide/ ? Will, Khaled, Jonathan : can you

Re: [XeTeX] fontspec_if_current_script or \fontspec_if_script functions of fontspec

On 2011-09-17 18:44:48 +0930, VAFA KHALIGHI vafa...@gmail.com said: Why this always returns non-RTL script? \newif\if@Latin \fontspec_if_current_script:nTF {arab} {\@Latinfalse} {\@Latintrue} I wondered if the documentation for this feature needed work, but it seems okay if a little terse:

[XeTeX] fontspec 2.2 update and bug

On 2011-09-13 21:05:33 +0930, CTAN Announcements ctan-...@dante.de said: Name of contribution: fontspec Author's name: Will Robertson Package version: v2.2 Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/fontspec/ Summary description: Advanced font selection in XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX License type: lppl

Re: [XeTeX] fontspec 2.2 update and bug

On 2011-09-14 19:14:13 +0930, VAFA KHALIGHI vafa...@gmail.com said: Are you going to change the actual code or you will be adding backward compatibility? I like to use the new code for my xepersian package but I need to know if the new code is also going to get changed? The documented

Re: [XeTeX] Question about \fontspec_set_family function of fontspec

On 2011-09-15 02:13:15 +0930, VAFA KHALIGHI vafa...@gmail.com said: Here is my minimal example. What is the difference between \newfontfamily and \fontspec_set_family? Sorry, I should have added more information to that section of the manual. Here's the new text for \fontspec_set_family:

Re: [XeTeX] bug using \underbrace with unicode-math package

On 2011-09-12 06:24:38 +0930, Daniel Greenhoe dgreen...@gmail.com said: Using \underbrace with the unicode-math package under XeLaTeX produces garbage output. Here is a minimal example: \documentclass{book} \usepackage{unicode-math} \setmathfont{xits-math.otf} \begin{document}% \[

Re: [XeTeX] How to mix math fonts?

On 2011-07-14 16:33:59 +0930, Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com said: Wow, Ulrik, Perfect! I will simply use your version now (not trying to learn the syntax). Will - Maybe it makes sense to incorporate some of the changes into your original document? Or at least create a second

Re: [XeTeX] How to mix math fonts?

On 06/07/2011, at 3:41 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: I would like to know how I can use unicode-math package for mixing multiple fonts. (I don't mean taking a few characters from one font and a few symbols from the other.) I would like to display one character from LM Math for example and the

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, fontspec, OTF, and fontdimens

On 01/03/2011, at 1:28 AM, Vadim Radionov wrote: one side-effect of your patch is that now, afaics, WordSpace multipliers work cumulatively in \newfontfamily\russianfont[Mapping=tex-text,Script=Cyrillic,WordSpace={1.4,.9,.8},

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, fontspec, OTF, and fontdimens

On 2011-03-01 00:58:45 +1030, msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca said: It's important not to override the widths of glyphs because of the common case I described earlier of a font that is in some meaningful way monospaced, but doesn't have all characters exactly the same width. Also note that XeTeX

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, fontspec, OTF, and fontdimens

On 27/02/2011, at 8:12 PM, Vadim Radionov wrote: But still there are things to be improved. If i want to change WordSpace locally, I have to add some other dummy feature (say, LetterSpace=0), or this change of inter-word space will be applied globally to the current font. Hi Vadim,

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, fontspec, OTF, and fontdimens

On 28/02/2011, at 12:56 AM, msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: If I edit the fontspec.sty file to include the above definition instead of the existing one, then inter-word spaces scale correctly. Inter-sentence spaces don't. Ideally there would be similar code addressing \fontdimen7 in

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, fontspec, OTF, and fontdimens

On 28/02/2011, at 10:11 AM, msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: http://github.com/wspr/fontspec/issues/99 Have I missed anything? On issue 99: you mention an option to add two ‘spaces’ instead of one might be a nice customisation. That calls for some caution - does it mean add two extra

Re: [XeTeX] Fontspec bug

On 2011-02-17 15:12:53 +1030, Vafa Khalighi vafakh...@gmail.com said: This is not a problem but when preview package is used Then you get error: ! Package xkeyval Error: no key specified for value `'. See the xkeyval package documentation for explanation. Hi Vafa, Sorry for the delay

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, fontspec, OTF, and fontdimens

On 2011-02-20 03:51:03 +1030, msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca said: Manually setting \fontdimen3 and \fontdimen4 seems to correctly change the space stretchability - and in fact is the workaround I'm using for the time being - but it must be repeated after every size change and so it breaks semantic

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, fontspec, OTF, and fontdimens

On 2011-02-20 11:42:30 +1030, msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca said: * Ideally the fact that the font is monospace is auto-detected, but if that is difficult or impossible, it would be reasonable that I set some option to let the system know that spaces should not stretch. Could we measure the

Re: [XeTeX] Proper way to set up OT Features

On 2011-02-12 11:58:07 +1030, David Perry hospes.pri...@verizon.net said: In one of my fonts, I'm having a hard time getting the OT features to work correctly in XeLaTeX. If I include the following line: \setmainfont[Numbers=Lowercase,Ligatures={Rare,Historical}]{Cardo} then the

Re: [XeTeX] \XeTeXglyphbounds question

On 2011-02-04 23:57:38 +1030, Jonathan Kew jfkth...@googlemail.com said: On 4 Feb 2011, at 05:41, Adam Twardoch (List) wrote: I could use: \XeTeXcharglyph`f but this only gives me the glyph ID of the *default* glyph for the f character. Yet since the font uses contextual alternates, I may

Re: [XeTeX] \XeTeXglyphbounds question

Hi Jonathan, Thanks for your comments. On 2011-02-07 22:34:05 +1030, Jonathan Kew jfkth...@googlemail.com said: So while I think I agree that it would be good for \XeTeXcharglyph to respect the font's selected OT features, it's important to recognize the limitations inherent in *any* API

Re: [XeTeX] xdv2pdf vs xdvipdfmx

On 2011-01-21 18:57:06 +1030, Oleg Parashchenko o...@uucode.com said: what is the state of xdv2pdf? Is it ok to use this driver in production environment, or are there any issues? What xdvipdfmx provides, what xdv2pdf can not do? It's probably safe to say that xdvipdfmx is the more supported

[XeTeX] Testing unicode-math

Dear all, After many months of work largely by Philipp Stephani, I've finally got around to fixing a couple of niggling bugs and packaging up a new release for unicode-math. In general there are no large changes, but I'd still like to make a test release of the package available in case I've

Re: [XeTeX] Getting vinculum in fractions with Asana Math and unicode-math when compiled with xelatex

On 2011-01-05 11:50:55 +1030, Paul Vojta vo...@math.berkeley.edu said: I've attached a patch that fixes the problem, seems not to break anything else, and seems reasonable. It also fixes: problems with segfaults with delimiters (xe-test-delim.tex) problems with incorrect

Re: [XeTeX] problem with package versions?

On 2010-11-15 10:18:56 +1030, Adam McCollum acmccollum...@gmail.com said: When I run XeLaTeX on a file (I've tried several), I get this error message. [snip] By the way, I've run TeX Live and updated everything. You must be using TeX Live 2009. The current version is TeX Live 2010, and you

Re: [XeTeX] Font variant selection in Fontspec/Mathspec options incomplete

On 2010-11-10 19:09:33 +1030, Christian Schmidt pinf...@hotmail.de said: Selecting a font via the extension option/feature from Truetype or Opentype font files and, at the same time, specifying the corresponding font varian ts through the other options, fontspec/mathspec is not able to set

Re: [XeTeX] Problems with spacing in math formulae

On 2010-10-20 09:13:36 +1030, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org said: I can reproduce it and while ago have seen it in a posted sample somewhere on the web. I don't know what is special about Euler's display summation to trigger such a bug (if it is actually a bug), Strange, with a little

Re: [XeTeX] Problems with spacing in math formulae

On 2010-10-20 07:52:09 +1030, Ross Moore ross.mo...@mq.edu.au said: On 20/10/2010, at 6:14 AM, Christian Pech wrote: I already reported this problem a week ago, but maybe the message got lost. The following latex-file produces wrong spacing when compiled with xelatex, I confirm the bad

Re: [XeTeX] bug in fontspec?

On 2010-10-19 03:30:24 +1030, Pablo Rodríguez oi...@web.de said: as Ulrike Fischer has noticed (http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2010-October/018895.html), fontspec enters in a loop italics are defined as slanted: \def\itdefault{sl} This problem, funnily enough, has existed pretty

Re: [XeTeX] Primes and unicode-math.

On 2010-10-12 06:31:36 +1030, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org said: Put the line \setmathfont{xits-math.otf} AFTER the line \setmathfont[range=\mathit/{latin,Latin,greek,Greek}]{Linux Libertine O Italic} I'm not sure this would be side effect free, at least in XeTeX since many math

Re: [XeTeX] New environment fails in float

On 2010-10-12 01:20:09 +1030, Gareth Hughes garzoh...@gmail.com said: I'm having problems with an environment definition. Using the xparse and etoolbox packages, I have created the environment syriacpoem in my .sty file. Hi Gareth, This appears to be a bug with nested environments in

Re: [XeTeX] Prime + Unicode-math

On 2010-10-05 09:07:07 +1030, Kamal Abdali k.abd...@acm.org said: The math symbols in XITS seem rather small. When trying to increase XITS character size with the Scale option, I noticed that math accents get amplified too much, and get placed too far from the subject symbols. The example

Re: [XeTeX] hyperref broken??

Am 03.10.2010 um 15:52 schrieb Will Robertson: On 03/10/2010, at 11:41 PM, Philipp Stephani st_phil...@yahoo.de wrote: Am 03.10.2010 um 14:02 schrieb David Perry: If I omit the option, or use 'xetex' in place of 'hypertex' or use the driverfallback option, I get: ! Undefined control

Re: [XeTeX] hyperref broken??

On 2010-10-04 11:57:27 +1030, David J. Perry hospes.pri...@verizon.net said: Ross and Will, So the first question should be what is the version of XeTeX that MikTeX is providing. And is David actually using that, or still an earlier version, as I was on a Mac. If the primitive is not there,

Re: [XeTeX] Problem with footnotes and xltxtra

On 2010-09-30 18:13:50 +0930, Dominik Wujastyk wujas...@gmail.com said: A quick trial of this shows that the problem goes away when the no-sscript argument is removed from xltxtra (and the minimal class is replaced by article to get the \footnotesize command). Next thing to do (not by me) is

Re: [XeTeX] Problem with footnotes and xltxtra

On 2010-09-30 19:25:45 +0930, Will Robertson wsp...@gmail.com said: In terms of debugging the problem, I haven't worked out what causes the error but I know how to fix it. There seems to be a strange interaction with \DeclareRobustCommand and the xparse package which we'll need to sort out

Re: [XeTeX] Small caps bug in fontspec

On 2010-09-29 15:50:29 +0930, Andrew Moschou and...@gmail.com said: It seems setting Numbers=OldStyle breaks \scshape. This example uses Sabon, but it happens with other fonts too. My fontspec version is 2.1a. Hi Andrew, Sorry for this, and thanks for reporting it. The bug fix (2.1b) is on

Re: [XeTeX] unicode-math problem

On 2010-09-29 21:29:22 +0930, Herbert Schulz he...@wideopenwest.com said: Had another update of unicode-math this morning and have no problems compiling the file here. Right, the two packages were out of sync for a couple of days. It should all be working now. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

On 2010-09-30 07:10:07 +0930, Philipp Stephani st_phil...@yahoo.de said: [Beginners] don't know what a text file or a text editor is, they have never heard the word Unicode, and they have never used a programming language before. What they need are step- by-step instructions that tell them,

Re: [XeTeX] Problem changing default fonts

On 2010-09-27 02:14:03 +0930, Drébon bedouin_dre...@hotmail.com said: \usepackage{pxfonts} \usepackage{txfonts} \usepackage[osf,sc]{mathpazo} You just changed the math/text font three times... \usepackage[scaled=0.85]{beramono} \usepackage[euler-digits]{eulervm} \usepackage{helvet}

Re: [XeTeX] Extra trailing space in IPA font with xltxtra

On 2010-09-23 20:38:14 +0930, Paolo Matteucci p.n.matteu...@gmail.com said: Therefore *maybe, whatever approach is used to address this bug, the same fix should be applied to fontspec, too...? The \scantokens is somewhere in tipa.sty or its accompanying packages. But the problem only occurs

Re: [XeTeX] Redefining \em and \emph

On 2010-09-23 22:20:05 +0930, Gareth Hughes garzoh...@gmail.com said: Will Robertson wrote: On 2010-09-23 09:07:39 +0930, Gareth Hughes garzoh...@gmail.com said: I'm looking at ways to redefine emphasis within Syriac text (seeing as slanted text is not traditional or pretty). I've got most

Re: [XeTeX] If font under fontspec

On 2010-09-21 09:39:51 +0930, Gareth Hughes garzoh...@gmail.com said: Peter Dyballa wrote: Am 20.09.2010 um 20:44 schrieb Gareth Hughes: I'm asking for a more useful implementation that checks whether a certain font is in use now Wouldn't it be sufficient to check what

Re: [XeTeX] Let me get it straight...

On 2010-09-19 00:27:40 +0930, Herbert Schulz he...@wideopenwest.com said: Right now I'm loading xltxtra alone (since it loads xunicode and fontspec). In some of my older documents I am loading all three. With an updated fontspec (as of version ?) under xelatex which of the three packages do

Re: [XeTeX] \...@nameuse question

On 2010-09-17 19:44:54 +0930, Michiel Kamermans po...@nihongoresources.com said: \if\value{iclass}\...@nameuse{#1class} These lines should be \ifnum, at the very least. You might also want to terminate them with \relax: \if\value{iclass}\...@nameuse{#1class}\relax I haven't

Re: [XeTeX] Separate fonts for Latin and Greek with fontspec?

On 2010-09-18 03:17:21 +0930, Fr. Michael Gilmary frmichaelgilm...@maronitemonks.org said: Gareth Hughes wrote: I've been using that version of kashida.sty with Syriac definitions for some time now. Are there any plans to make it an official CTAN package, or part of one? Well, I haven't

Re: [XeTeX] wspr's realscripts updated xelatex templates

On 2010-09-15 04:19:40 +0930, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org said: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:44:06AM -0400, Joel C. Salomon wrote: I’ve not been following the recent back-and-forth regarding which XɘLaTeX packages are now obsolete, and which are compatible with LuaLaTeX. Right now my

Re: [XeTeX] wspr's realscripts updated xelatex templates

On 2010-09-15 17:50:42 +0930, David Cottenden d.cotten...@ucl.ac.uk said: On 15/09/10 09:08, Will Robertson wrote: - Defines the dubiously useful commands \vfrac - for vulgar fractions with fontspec \namedglyph - to access font glyphs by name #4(a,b) are probably never used. No

Re: [XeTeX] Fontspec: Historic not Historical Ligatures?

On 2010-09-13 00:04:53 +0930, David Perry hospes.pri...@verizon.net said: On 9/12/2010 10:05 AM, Kevin Klement wrote: Wouldn't it be possible, however, to alias one to the other so that both worked? That would make sense, unless something else is going on here that we don't know about; Will

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation initiative - a website

On 2010-09-12 19:29:31 +0930, Michiel Kamermans po...@nihongoresources.com said: I've put up a wiki with a highly tentative structure on http://wiki.xelatex.org/doku.php - sadly xetex.org is taken by some domain hiking service so there's no obvious xetex.org counterpart to be had... Looks

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation initiative

On 2010-09-12 05:11:54 +0930, Philipp Stephani st_phil...@yahoo.de said: OpenType Math is still in a very early stage in XeTeX and has so many bugs that it is not ready for production use. Thanks for the vote of confidence. And where are all these OpenType math fonts you'd like to use? W

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeXpdffile media box etc

On 2010-09-10 01:14:34 +0930, Heiko Oberdiek heiko.oberd...@googlemail.com said: Who are the maintainers of xetex.def? Can they add the option `pagebox' as well? Not me, I'm afraid. The copyright lists Jonathan (Kew) and Ross Moore. W --

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeXpdffile media box etc

Hi, Thanks Paul and William for the useful info. Another clarification: Crop, Bleed and Trim are standard printing terms and the usage reflects that. Media is used to describe the underlying page size to which one would likely be printing the file and art is what one wants people to see.

[XeTeX] XeTeXpdffile media box etc

Hi, I'm writing up the syntax of \XeTeXpdffile and \XeTeXpicfile and I'd like someone who knows better than I do to explain the optional argument to \XeTeXpdffile to control the bounding box of the graphic: [ crop | media | bleed | trim | art ] Any volunteers? (If these are standard

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation? (from Checking if a font exists)

On 2010-09-01 18:34:30 +0930, Heiko Oberdiek heiko.oberd...@googlemail.com said: The rotation is specified in degree (360 is full circle) and the rotation is counterclockwise as usual. Thanks for the info. I've added it to the project, and I'll try and write it up sooner rather than later:

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation? (from Checking if a font exists)

On 2010-08-31 00:02:43 +0930, Heiko Oberdiek heiko.oberd...@googlemail.com said: However it's quite incomplete, two examples: * \suppressfontnotfounderror is missing * For the correct syntax of \XeTeXpdffile I had to look into the sources of XeTeX. I've added \suppressfontnotfounderror to

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation? (from Checking if a font exists)

On 2010-08-31 21:22:31 +0930, Shrisha Rao sh...@nyx.net said: There is an interesting paper titled If writers can't program and programm ers can't write, who's writing user documentation? -- see http://portal.ac m.org/citation.cfm?id=10563.10574. Great link, thanks! Will

Re: [XeTeX] unicode-math (I think) redefines \slash

On 2010-08-12 04:54:45 +0930, Joel C. Salomon joelcsalo...@gmail.com said: Using all packages as of TL ’10 pretest. At one point in my document I needed an optional line-break after a slash, but blah blah overfull line UNIX\slash Linux didn’t break. Inserting the line

[XeTeX] fontspec and xunicode

Hey, Quick message to say that the new version of fontspec (v2.1) on GitHub now loads xunicode directly, and references to xunicode been removed entirely from euenc. If necessary, Khaled can release fontspec euenc to CTAN while I'm away for the next couple of weeks, but otherwise if all is

Re: [XeTeX] [lltx] fontspec and xunicode

On 05/08/2010, at 4:58 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: Based on the previous discussion here, I think there is a general agreement that a simple wrapper around xunicode is better than forking it. Where the wrapper == fontspec? (As I just implemented.) Or do you mean an entirely separate package that

Re: [XeTeX] [lltx] fontspec and xunicode

On 05/08/2010, at 5:05 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: Well, I can not actually upload fontspec to CTAN since I am unable to build the documentation :) (even if I got all the non-free fonts, I still can not generate the AAT examples). I think, adding the PDFs of the examples to the repository would

Re: [XeTeX] fontspec: loading different shapes/scales of one font as different font instances?

On 2010-08-02 06:39:27 +0930, BPJ b...@melroch.se said: I'll still need to stick in commands/define features to get smallcaps, though... \newfontface\foosc[Letters=SmallCaps]{TeX Gyre Pagella} W -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List

Re: [XeTeX] Pipes in XeTeX

On 2010-07-27 00:07:02 +0930, Florian Gilcher f...@andersground.net said: I really like the following feature of pdftex and others for development purposes: \input{|darcs changes -s} % print a detailed log of changes and include that into my document as a running log for other reviewers.

Re: [XeTeX] \ifincsname: unexpected behaviour after nested \csname...\endcsname

On 2010-07-22 09:12:14 +0930, Grzegorz Murzynowski nat...@o2.pl said: I noted quite unexpectedly that nesting \csname…\endcsname, results in turning |\ifincsname| false: the example above typesets \before nested csname: In csname \ after nested csname: Not in csname Is it a bug or a

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

On 2010-07-14 12:38:56 +0930, Alexey Kryukov anagn...@yandex.ru said: On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0930 Will Robertson wrote: Why? If they are historical forms isn't it better to give them a meaningful OpenType feature name? To my mind, an attempt to provide meaningful feature names

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTex and Armenian

On 2010-07-14 06:40:52 +0930, Apostolos Syropoulos asyropou...@yahoo.com said: In different words, if a font includes glyphs for the Armenian script and the Latin script and the kern and liga features are defined for both scripts, then there is no reason to use different fonts. But don't you

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

On 2010-07-14 19:46:02 +0930, François Charette firmi...@ankabut.net said: [quite off-topic] In 19th-century Rome, a prince and mathematician named Baldassare Boncompagni... P.S. I love this list. Thanks :) W -- Subscriptions, Archive,

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

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] [OT] Free fonts for fontspec examples?

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?

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

[XeTeX] Detecting glyph change after feature selection

Hi, I was hoping that something like this would let me detect whether a certain font feature affects the glyph obtained by inputting a certain character: \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \font\1=Adobe Jenson Pro\1 1234567890abcdefg \number\XeTeXcharglyph`\a \number\XeTeXcharglyph`\c

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX equivalent to \pdfpagewidth ?

On 2010-07-02 07:22:18 -0700, Ulrike Fischer ne...@nililand.de said: But if you set \pdfpagewidth you should also set \pdfpageheight. At least on my system (miktex 2.7) xetex will otherwise \pdfpagewidth setting. \documentclass{article} \pdfpagewidth=20cm %\pdfpageheight=15cm %needed too.

Re: [XeTeX] Problem with unicode-math and acronym packages

On 2010-06-15 16:23:33 -0700, Michael Lynch michael.s.ly...@googlemail.com said: I've come across a conflict between the unicode-math and acronym packages. Hi Michael, Thanks for reporting this. unicode-math gets its definitions from the STIX fonts, and the complete list (some 2400

Re: [XeTeX] Problem: Beamer+xelatex+\XeTeXdefaultencoding

On 2010-06-22 05:32:57 -0700, Jonathan Kew jfkth...@googlemail.com said: It turns out the problem can also be triggered by setting \XeTeXinputnormalization=1 (or 2) in a similar way. This post is to remind me to add this primitive to xetexref. I don't think it's in there. (I'm in SF right

Re: [XeTeX] wish on \showhyphens from xltxtra

On 2010-06-14 05:24:47 +0930, Pablo Rodríguez oi...@web.de said: trying to check whether a rather large passage in ancient Greek was properly hyphenated, I realized that it would be extremely helpful if xlxtra could provide also the spaces in \showhpyphens. I agree xltxtra's \showhyphens

Re: [XeTeX] internationalization bug in the selection of smart font features

On 2010-06-15 02:21:49 +0930, j_mach_w...@shared-files.de said: In XeTeX, you can select a smart feature by using the package =20 fontspec, for instance like this: \font\hoeflerengraved=3DHoefler Text/AAT:Style Options=3DEngraved Text [snip] I don't know whether this is a bug of XeTeX or

Re: [XeTeX] XITS Math font - first beata

On 2010-06-07 01:41:41 +0930, George N. White III gnw...@gmail.com said: I replaced the accent macros with unicode glyphs, e.g. Möbius, Poincar é, etc. One AMS text symbol (\S -- §) generated and undefined. Have you loaded xunicode? cmsy is still being used somehow, somewhere: Needs to

Re: [XeTeX] XITS Math font - first beata

On 2010-06-05 14:58:22 +0930, wodzi...@math.berkeley.edu said: I read your answer to my post as an admission that STIXGeneral, which covers actually all the usual 'text' blocks of the Unicode is not really suitable for text? Is it really so? My naive perhaps perception was that STIXGeneral was

Re: [XeTeX] XITS Math font - first beata

On 2010-06-06 02:54:13 +0930, Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com said: Will Robertson wrote: On 2010-06-06 01:28:46 +0930, Eelis van der Weegen ee...@eelis.net said: If so, to what extent would this make XITS obsolete? Depends how good a job they do :) And whether the current STIX

Re: [XeTeX] Solved -- Was: Re: Typesetting XeLaTeX and LaTeX logo under MacTeX 2009

On 2010-06-05 00:17:16 +0930, Iwan Setyawan iwan.setya...@ieee.org said: Thanks for the solution! The new file fixed the problem. Everything seems to be working correctly now. FWIW, I (attempt to) always tag releases on Github when they're sent to CTAN, so you can always get historical

[XeTeX] catcodes of superscripts, etc.

(Sorry for the cross-posting, but this seems of very minor possible interest to a few different people.) Hi Jonathan, I've just noticed that catcodes of superscript i and n have catcode 11, as do the latin greek subscripts. (Code points appended.) I'm going to change this in unicode-math (so

Re: [XeTeX] (Off-topic) STIX Fonts

On 2010-05-30 23:20:07 +0930, Michael Lynch michael.s.ly...@googlemail.com said: Does anyone know any more about the project? Has the math feature definitely been delayed until a future version? Yep, the intial release has always been about glyph coverage and kerning. As they say, OpenType

Re: [XeTeX] unicod-math testing / siunitx

On 2010-05-28 08:47:33 +0930, Ross Moore ross.mo...@mq.edu.au said: On 28/05/2010, at 7:45 AM, Joseph Wright wrote: On 27/05/2010 22:32, David Cottenden wrote: Note that this used the sinuitx from last November, so it might be out of date. I hope this is enough to go on - I don't remember