Re: [XeTeX] Is this a bug in xelatex/xdvipdfmx ?

2011-09-13 Thread rhino64
Hi, Thanks for the info. I will still use other TeX engines when using these fonts. regards, On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 03:31:20PM +0200, Zdenek Wagner wrote: 2011/9/12 rhin...@postmail.ch: Hi All,    Few years ago, I have bought few fonts type 1 from Bitstream. Even, if they are only

Re: [XeTeX] Dinosaurs

2011-09-13 Thread Martin Schröder
2011/9/12 Barry MacKichan barry.mackic...@mackichan.com: Ok, I'll contribute to this one. I learned programming on a IBM clone --a clone of an IBM 1620 at Oregon State University in 1960. We wrote a few programs and then were told about a fabulous new tool called SOAP, the symbolic optimum

Re: [XeTeX] Dinosaurs

2011-09-13 Thread Pander
On 2011-09-13 07:43, Shrisha Rao wrote: El sep 13, 2011, a las 3:00 a.m., Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) escribió: Tobias Schoel wrote: Shouldn't real dinosaurs (real as in MTV Real Life) calculate using only the Peano Axioms and the unary system? I mean, the natural numbers and the peano

Re: [XeTeX] Dinosaurs

2011-09-13 Thread Dominik Wujastyk
Ah, when one had to wear a suit to approach a computer :-) On 13 September 2011 07:05, Janusz S. Bień jsb...@mimuw.edu.pl wrote: http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/wydzial/zdjecia/zosk/ -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.:

Re: [XeTeX] Dinosaurs

2011-09-13 Thread Dominik Wujastyk
Phil, Now I come to think of it, at that 1993 meeting at RHBNC, I seem to recall that one of the participants was glowing with pride because he had with him a portable computer that was running unix. I say portable, but his legs were buckled at the knee as he staggered around, and the strap dug

Re: [XeTeX] Dinosaurs

2011-09-13 Thread Yves Codet
Hello. I was sent some useful information about hyphenation in Malayalam script and I'm modifying hyph-sa.tex accordingly. If there's a specialist around (dinosaur or mammal, it doesn't matter in this case), it would help me a lot if he could answer the following questions. Can a chillu

Re: [XeTeX] Longtable package

2011-09-13 Thread VAFA KHALIGHI
Hello Heba As Alan already said, longtable is not yet ready for RTL. I have tried several attempts to figure out how I can do RTL tables with longtable but so far I have failed. For instance, recently I asked this question http://tug.org/pipermail/texhax/2011-September/018083.html You only can

Re: [XeTeX] Longtable package

2011-09-13 Thread Alan Munn
On Sep 13, 2011, at 4:38 AM, VAFA KHALIGHI wrote: As Alan already said, longtable is not yet ready for RTL. I have tried several attempts to figure out how I can do RTL tables with longtable but so far I have failed. For instance, recently I asked this question

[XeTeX] Portable code and xetex

2011-09-13 Thread rhino64
Hi All, I want to develop/adapt some personal styles to XeTeX (to include polyglossia instead of babel for instance). I want however to keep the compatibility with other TeX engines. Long ago I have used a portable test but I don't remember exactly the command. I have done a quick research

Re: [XeTeX] Portable code and xetex

2011-09-13 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/9/13 rhin...@postmail.ch: Hi All,     I want to develop/adapt some personal styles to XeTeX (to include polyglossia instead of babel for instance). I want however to keep the compatibility with other TeX engines. Long ago I have used a portable test but I don't remember exactly the

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

2011-09-13 Thread Daniel Greenhoe
Hi Phil, On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk wrote: Or perhaps there is another way : ... replace the whole primebackslashwhatever sequence : \XeTeXmathchardef \bracelu = 0 3 23A7 ... Yes, that works great. \XeTeXmathchardef\bracelu = 0 3

[XeTeX] Traditional poem

2011-09-13 Thread VAFA KHALIGHI
Hello Heba I am working on a new version of bidipoem. I know its limitations and I like to remove these limitations. Thanks -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

[XeTeX] Dropping first letter of paragraphs for RTL

2011-09-13 Thread VAFA KHALIGHI
Recently I have seen few Persian textbooks in which they drop first letter of every first paragraph in each chapter. I have attached the same here. HarfeAval-example.tex Description: TeX document HarfeAval-example.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document

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

2011-09-13 Thread Will Robertson
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}% \[