[XeTeX] How could xetex find texlive fonts on a mac?

2010-10-04 Thread 德柳 邓
I'am a newer for texlive . I have installed texlive 2010 universal-darwin under command line for mac (not Mactex).-- 1. I tried to compile $ xetex opentype-info.texThen i got a

Re: [XeTeX] How could xetex find texlive fonts on a mac?

2010-10-04 Thread Dominik Wujastyk
I love pain.tex. And it's a gift for those of the Word persuasion :-) -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-04 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
TeX was developed as a subset of SGML or if you wish clone, variant, etc. TeX is a declarative and procedural programming language. What is more important it is dynamic! That is it is possible to change the definitions of the macros used while the program is running.

Re: [XeTeX] How could xetex find texlive fonts on a mac?

2010-10-04 Thread 德柳 邓
--- 10年10月4日,周一, Paul Isambert zappathus...@free.fr 写道: XeTeX is telling you he can't find the font. You don't have it on your computer, because it should be installed. Try to download the ``lm'' package with TeXLive manager (tlmgr).Hi Paul ,thinks for your reply , i think  i have

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-04 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi All, I chime in here. This is all OT. At the risk of being mark as a TROLL, here goes. Evidently, the participants of this discussion come from varying backgrounds and the terminology is getting all messed up. 1) structure of a document

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-04 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Everybody, I am very sorry for starting this discussion of on OT route. Whether to use Word or TeX for one purpose the other is very philosophical. Each has their strengths and deficiencies. A discussion that does not belong here and there is no real

Re: [XeTeX] arabxetex vs. xepersian

2010-10-04 Thread Axel Kielhorn
Am 03.10.2010 um 22:41 schrieb Gareth Hughes: ArabXeTeX does a similar job to Polyglossia when it comes to font set-up and commands for language change. However, ArabXeTeX specialises in using input in Latin transliteration to render Arabic. It is designed to work with the various languages

Re: [XeTeX] How could xetex find texlive fonts on a mac?

2010-10-04 Thread ami
在 2010-10-4,下午9:15, Herbert Schulz 写道: On Oct 3, 2010, at 11:25 PM, 德柳 邓 wrote: I'am a newer for texlive . I have installed texlive 2010 universal-darwin under command line for mac (not

Re: [XeTeX] How could xetex find texlive fonts on a mac?

2010-10-04 Thread ami
在 2010-10-4,下午4:13, Paul Isambert 写道: XeTeX is telling you he can't find the font. You don't have it on your computer, because it should be installed. Try to download the ``lm'' package with TeXLive manager (tlmgr). Hi Paul ,thinks for your reply , i think i have installed the lm

Re: [XeTeX] How could xetex find texlive fonts on a mac?

2010-10-04 Thread Herbert Schulz
On Oct 4, 2010, at 10:07 AM, ami wrote: 在 2010-10-4,下午9:15, Herbert Schulz 写道: On Oct 3, 2010, at 11:25 PM, 德柳 邓 wrote: I'am a newer for texlive . I have installed texlive 2010 universal-darwin under command line for mac (not

Re: [XeTeX] How could xetex find texlive fonts on a mac?

2010-10-04 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 04/10/2010 16:35, ami a écrit : Thanks for your advises . I am new to Tex and i am interesting in it . Good luck then, and have fun! And don't hesitate when you have a question: people on this list, and on others as well, generally answer them all, no matter whether it requires advanced

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-04 Thread maxwell
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Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-04 Thread Ross Moore
Sent from my iPad On 05/10/2010, at 4:13 AM, maxwell maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu wrote: On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 06:22:13 -0700 (PDT), Apostolos Syropoulos asyropou...@yahoo.com wrote: [not sure who is being quoted here:] TeX was developed as a subset of SGML It's pretty clear that Keith meant

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-04 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
As for the '' line, the first version of TeX was implemented in SAIL, which was an Algol-like programming language. The current version is So what? I do not understand what's the point you are trying to make. A language implementor can freely choose any existing language to implement a new

Re: [XeTeX] arabxetex vs. xepersian

2010-10-04 Thread Gareth Hughes
Axel Kielhorn wrote: Am 03.10.2010 um 22:41 schrieb Gareth Hughes: ArabXeTeX does a similar job to Polyglossia when it comes to font set-up and commands for language change. However, ArabXeTeX specialises in using input in Latin transliteration to render Arabic. It is designed to work with

Re: [XeTeX] arabxetex vs. xepersian

2010-10-04 Thread Fr. Michael Gilmary
Gareth Hughes wrote: Fr Michael Gilmary adapted Jonathan Kew's code for Syriac, and I'm including that in my forthcoming Syriac package. I'm glad you're doing this, Gareth --- I've been a bit shy about posting this as a package ... I /really/ don't understand much (although the posting

Re: [XeTeX] Undefined control sequence

2010-10-04 Thread Cesar Romani
On 04/10/2010 03:37 a.m., Dominik Wujastyk wrote: Dear Cesar, Perhaps you've already seen http://cikitsa.blogspot.com/2010/07/xelatex-for-sanskrit.html that explores how to do this and similar tasks? I tried your file, and it worked more or less out-of-the-box. I don't have XITS, so I

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-04 Thread Keith J. Schultz
O.K. I am can not remember where I got the part where TeX was based on SGML. Maybe, I have the context wrong maybe it was LaTeX. It was somewhere in the depths of CTAN, though. regards Keith Am 04.10.2010 um 19:13 schrieb maxwell: 10...@googlemail.com

Re: [XeTeX] arabxetex vs. xepersian

2010-10-04 Thread Ross Moore
Hello Fr. Michael, On 05/10/2010, at 8:05 AM, Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote: I've been meaning to ask recently about the kashida.sty file There is a big compatibility problem with this package, which really should be fixed before it gets distributed widely. The choices of some of the macro-names

Re: [XeTeX] arabxetex vs. xepersian

2010-10-04 Thread Gareth Hughes
Ross Moore wrote: There is a big compatibility problem with this package, which really should be fixed before it gets distributed widely. The choices of some of the macro-names are rather unfortunate, since they clash with existing, long-standing uses for those names. \A = Å \L = Ł \R

Re: [XeTeX] Prime + Unicode-math

2010-10-04 Thread Kamal Abdali
Here's a related problem. 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 below shows that by comparing XITS and Asana

Re: [XeTeX] Prime + Unicode-math

2010-10-04 Thread Will Robertson
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