Re: [XeTeX] \XeTeXpdffile causes over-long line unless wrapped in \hbox

David got mislead. The truth is rather stranger: it seems the width of the image used when placing glyphs of a given hlist on the page is different from (and larger than) the width of the image used when measuring the total box size. For instance "!" does not get eaten: it overlaps with the

Re: [XeTeX] Follow-up to previous mail about hyphenation

For those who want a complete working example based on Yiannis' code, here is one, to be compiled with "xetex -ini -etex test.tex" and in which the arabic "word" is hyphenated at every letter. Thank you Yannis and others. Bruno On 3/25/21 6:50 PM, Yannis Haralambous wrote: > Silly of me, when

Re: [XeTeX] Follow-up to previous mail about hyphenation

Check \the\catcode"200D perhaps, it does not seem to be set in your example document. Note that the LaTeX format might reset that catcode. The other mystery is why Arabic words seem to only be hyphenated once. On 3/25/21 5:17 PM, Yannis Haralambous wrote: > Well it is neither polyglossia nor

Re: [XeTeX] Follow-up to previous mail about hyphenation

>> So what am I missing in my code, Jonathan ?  I have added a \hyphenchar, >> removed the pointless (and dysfunctional) \showhyphens), but still get no >> hyphenation — >> >> % !TeX Program=Ini-XeTeX >> >> \catcode `\ = 10 >> \catcode `\ = 10 >> \catcode `\{ = 1 >> \catcode `\} = 2 >>

Re: [XeTeX] Follow-up to previous mail about hyphenation

Could you add the following two lines to the start of your file and check for "Missing character" messages? \tracingonline 1 \tracinglostchars 2 On 3/25/21 11:22 AM, Yannis Haralambous wrote: > When I run the same file with Amiri: > > % !TeX Program=Ini-XeTeX > > \catcode `\ = 10 > \catcode

Re: [XeTeX] Follow-up to previous mail about hyphenation

Hello Yannis, On 3/25/21 10:41 AM, Yannis Haralambous wrote: > This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-0.93 (TeX Live 2021) (preloaded > format=plain) >  restricted \write18 enabled. > (./test.tex > Underfull \hbox (badness 1) in paragraph at lines 6--6 > *[] \tenrm blabla* > [1] ) > (see

Re: [XeTeX] latin-1 encoded characters in commented out parts trigger log warnings

Hi Ross, On 2/21/21 10:42 PM, Ross Moore wrote: > Hi Ulrike, > >> On 22 Feb 2021, at 7:52 am, Ulrike Fischer wrote: >> >> Am Sun, 21 Feb 2021 20:26:04 + schrieb Ross Moore: >> >> > Once you have encountered the (correct) comment character, >> > what follows on the rest of the line is going

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-implementors] Proposal : that TeX engines generating PDF directly should be able to close the output file without terminating.

On 7/3/20 6:50 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote: > On 03/07/2020 16:26, Philip Taylor wrote: >> Jonathan Kew wrote: >> >>> For your example, I was going to suggest that a simpler solution than "make" >>> ought to work: all it requires is a two-line batch file or shell script (or >>> similar: tools like Lua

Re: [XeTeX] Proposal : that TeX engines generating PDF directly should be able to close the output file without terminating.

On 7/3/20 1:46 PM, Philip Taylor wrote: > It would seem that adding the command-line qualifier "--shell-escape" is > required in order that \write 18 be permitted, but then we run into the > problem > that (with the benefit of hindsight) we should have foreseen at the outset :  > the PDF file is

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX release notes ?

On 11/3/19 6:57 PM, Taylor, P wrote: > Taylor, P wrote: > >> Many thanks for the warning, Bruno — will amend code accordingly. > > The following would seem to suffice for now : > > > % \ifcase \numexpr \strcmp {\the \XeTeXversion \XeTeXrevision} {0.9} > + 1 \relax > >   \ifcase

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX release notes ?

Note that the version test using \ifdim is unsafe because values are rounded to a certain number of scaled points before being compared. On 11/3/19 5:27 PM, Taylor, P wrote: >                 *\ifdim \XeTeXrevision pt < 0.9pt* \ifdim 0.8pt < 0.9pt % expected \else \UNEXPECTED \fi

Re: [XeTeX] Discretionary line-breaks in Tamil

Perhaps try adding the following early enough in your document (before any use of U+200B). \catcode"200B=13 % (active) \def 200b{\discretionary{}{}{}} Regards, Bruno On 9/30/19 1:05 PM, Roland Kuhn via XeTeX wrote: > From a programmer’s perspective it is usually much nicer to not have >

Re: [XeTeX] FYI: \includegraphics and *.bb files

On 5/14/19 08:50, Janusz S. Bień wrote: > The paper was accepted and several days ago I prepared a final > version. To my surprise almost all images was scaled down by > XeLaTeX. The test shows the culprit is the presence of *.bb files. There > are however some *.bb files which has no such side

[XeTeX] Allowing Ucharcat to produce active characters

{\expandafter\noexpand\Ucharcat `~ 13 } run the code of the active ~ as if it had been typed directly, then show its meaning, then do the equivalent of \def\foo{~}. Bruno >From ab3698191833315858cb5751af886230ffc2a82d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruno Le Floch <br...@le-floch.fr> Date

Re: [XeTeX] "typeset by bidi" message

Hello Kamal, On 01/25/2018 09:10 PM, Kamal Abdali wrote: > My xelatex-processed document has this message on the title page of the > document: *"Typeset by the bidi package."* > *​* ​ > I understand that bidi is being called by polyglossia which I am using. > > I hadn't > ​seen ​ > such a

Re: [XeTeX] ifcat changed?

Filed https://sourceforge.net/p/xetex/bugs/138/ with a text essentially identical to my message below explaining the bug's origin and how to fix it. On 04/16/2017 06:50 AM, Julian Bradfield wrote: > On 2017-04-16, Zdenek Wagner wrote: >> 2017-04-16 10:08 GMT+02:00 Julian

[XeTeX] ifcat changed?

Dear all, The primitive conditional "\ifcat\relax\cr true\else false\fi" gives "true" in pdfTeX, LuaTeX, (e)(u)pTeX, and XeTeX from some time ago (could be years), but "false" in XeTeX 0.6 It would be useful for me to know which of \ifcat, \relax, and \cr changed, to determine whether I

Re: [XeTeX] Random number primitives

On 11/14/2016 04:47 AM, David Carlisle wrote: > On 14 November 2016 at 09:22, Apostolos Syropoulos > wrote: >>> >>> Changing the source isn't the issue, are you offering also to help >>> with user support to manage the change >>> and explain to people why it's not possible

Re: [XeTeX] How to reduce terminal output from xelatex?

On 08/01/2016 01:01 PM, Philip Taylor wrote: > > > Zdenek Wagner wrote: >> Append >/dev/null in unix systems or >null in Windows, it will send >> all terminal output to a black hole. > Er, yes, but is that what ShreeDevi meant by "reduce" ? "Reduce" and > "eliminate" are not the same, IMHO. Is

Re: [XeTeX] How to reduce terminal output from xelatex?

On 08/01/2016 12:51 PM, Zdenek Wagner wrote: > Append >/dev/null in unix systems or >null in Windows, it will send > all terminal output to a black hole. > > Zdeněk Wagner > http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml > http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz > > > 2016-08-01 12:42 GMT+02:00 ShreeDevi Kumar

Re: [XeTeX] Seemingly inexplicable shift in page origin between TL 2014 and TL 2016

On 7/12/16, Philip Taylor wrote: > I have just installed TeX Live 2016 for the first time, using the "small" > scheme and a couple of additional options, but I find when I try to > re-generate /The Oral History of Horsmonden/ that the entire page image has > been displaced

Re: [XeTeX] DVIasm

On 2/8/16, Philip Taylor wrote: > P.S. Experimenting against both versions, I found that what Python 3 > detected as syntax errors in the Version 2 source prevented the test > from ever being evaluated, but the following three changes allow the > diagnostic to be issue

Re: [XeTeX] not enough \XeTeXcharclass registers

On 2/1/16, David Carlisle wrote: > On 1 February 2016 at 10:53, Jonathan Kew wrote: >> On 1/2/16 10:25, David Carlisle wrote: >> >>> y. >>> >> >> You're right, of course; this is a limitation of the concept as currently >> implemented. >> >> In

Re: [XeTeX] Discretionary hyphens don't work in paragraphed footnotes

Here's a shorter example which hyphenates with cmr12 (in pdfTeX/XeTeX) but not with the font copied from David's example: hyphenation is lost when closing the hbox, as can be seen by adding the appropriate \tracingonline=1\showboxbreadth=99 and \showlists just before the closing brace. I have no

Re: [XeTeX] Discretionary hyphens don't work in paragraphed footnotes

On 10/8/15, David Carlisle wrote: > On 8 October 2015 at 17:53, Dominik Wujastyk wrote: >> The original questioner said he was doing a critical edition. If he's >> using >> EDMAC or LEDMAC then perhaps I can note that EDMAC does some work to >> avoid

Re: [XeTeX] \(pdf)mdfivesum

Sorry to add yet another a voice to the discussion. I agree with Apostolos Syropoulos that the adding primitives to XeTeX should be limited, but I disagree on other points. On 7/2/15, Apostolos Syropoulos asyropou...@yahoo.com wrote: So someone will step in and implement this primitive but then

Re: [XeTeX] Fwd: Re: Case changing for Greek

It appears that the Unicode Core Specification (version 7.0.0) defines in Table 3-14 what a Final Sigma is. A sigma is final if the previous character is cased and the next is not, ignoring case-ignorable characters completely. To know which characters are cased/case-ignorable, see the

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] TeTeX in TeX Live 2015 broken on Mac

On 4/24/15, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 11:55:41AM +0100, Philip Taylor wrote: Will Robertson wrote: On 24 Apr 2015, at 1:51 am, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: Even shorter: \ifnum\XeTeXcountvariations\font0\fi\bye :) Phew! Glad to

Re: [XeTeX] bidi question

On 7/15/14, maxwell maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu wrote: I'm attaching the minimal file below. The PDF output has a blank line between the first and second footnotes, which IMO shouldn't be there. I don't get this result if bidi isn't loaded, and with bidi loaded I only get this result if the last

Re: [XeTeX] expandable version of \char

Hello all, On 5/4/14, David Carlisle d.p.carli...@gmail.com wrote: Would it be possible (ever:-) to add a \Uchar primitive like that in luatex? So like \char but is expandable and returns a character token rather than a typesetting primitive. I think it should not be too hard to use the

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

Hello, 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. I don't know if this was fixed in more recent

Re: [XeTeX] morewrites and bibtex

Hello, I'm the author of morewrites, which has to perform various hacks to go around the hard limitation of the number of TeX output streams (see the thread that you linked: TeX has not changed in this regard). My guess is that it is probably a bug in morewrites. Please try to make a reasonably

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX and SIunitx

On 5/14/12, Ross Moore ross.mo...@mq.edu.au wrote: Hi Ulrike, and Bruno, On 13/05/2012, at 11:05 PM, Ulrike Fischer wrote: Am Fri, 11 May 2012 19:44:00 +0200 schrieb Bruno Le Floch: I'm really no expert, but the siunitx package could include, e.g., µ as 00b5. This would not make

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX and SIunitx

On 5/14/12, Ulrike Fischer ne...@nililand.de wrote: Am Mon, 14 May 2012 09:19:18 +1000 schrieb Ross Moore: But it doesn't solve the problem here as pdftex chokes if it sees more than two ^^: ... this is not a good example to support this view. \documentclass{article} \begin{document}

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX and SIunitx

On 5/11/12, Joseph Wright joseph.wri...@morningstar2.co.uk wrote: On 11/05/2012 17:36, Tobias Schoel wrote: Hi, I have done a few tests with the problematic symbols in siunitx (namely micro, ohm, angstrom, celsius, degree/arcsecond/arcminute) and different math fonts. You'll find source and

Re: [XeTeX] Automate table creation

As Tobias mentions, use a package for loops. I think the code below should work, but I don't know how to build diacritics on a letter: isn't the point of combining marks that just putting the two characters next to each other should do the trick? I didn't test. \documentclass{article}

Re: [XeTeX] Automate table creation

I tried runing your code, but I get the following message: ! Missing number, treated as zero. to be read again * l.20 \maketable{c,0}{1,2} I knew I should've tested that code. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{xparse} \usepackage{array} \ExplSyntaxOn

Re: [XeTeX] Incomplete .aux file

I'm having an issue with the .aux file being incomplete in two different files I am working with. Did you try deleting the auxiliary files then running TeX again? Usually, going with a clean slate helps in cases like that. Regards, Bruno --

Re: [XeTeX] genotype

On 1/1/12, Michael Sharpe msha...@ucsd.edu wrote: On Jan 1, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Jean-Louis Cordonnier wrote: In order to write genetics, I need something like $\frac{A}{a}$ but with a double horizontal bar -- and left( and right) I tried this, but there is too much white around it.

Re: [XeTeX] Typographic question : quotation marks and apostrophes

On the quotes front, one answer, generally inapplicable, is to move away from Anglo-Saxonia and to use « and », and double quotes within quotations. Most programs handle that automatically now. In a XeTeX context, « and » could be made active, and expand to the relevant language-aware quotes,

Re: [XeTeX] Any progress on 16 open write file limit?

It would still be better to have an engine-level solution. Morewrites is definitely a hack. Update the l3kernel bundle to the newest version OK, thanks! I am hoping to complete and deliver a major project this month, so I don't want to risk a major update to my Texlive system at this point;

Re: [XeTeX] Any progress on 16 open write file limit?

Has there been any progress on getting around the 16 open write file limit and the associated crash message No room for a new \write? This has been causing me problems lately. \usepackage{morewrites} If you are using XeLaTeX (or any other *LaTeX). It won't work if filenames contain

Re: [XeTeX] Any progress on 16 open write file limit?

. It's sort of mentionned in the doc of morewrites (but I really should've added an explicit test in the package, sorry). Hope this helps, -- Bruno Le Floch -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] VIQR pre-processor wrotten in (Xe)TeX ?

Is it simply a matter of going through the string and replace various characters by TeX accents (and take care of character order), or does the result have to be Unicode? E.g., does it have to be a(a^ → ăâ, or can it be a(a^ → \u{a}\^{a} ? If the second one is ok, then it shouldn't be too hard to

Re: [XeTeX] VIQR pre-processor wrotten in (Xe)TeX ?

Bruno Le Floch wrote: Is it simply a matter of going through the string and replace various characters by TeX accents (and take care of character order), or does the result have to be Unicode? E.g., does it have to be a(a^ → ăâ, or can it be a(a^ → \u{a}\^{a} ? If the second one is ok

Re: [XeTeX] Performance of ucharclasses

There's hardly big bucks involved here. If you think you can improve the performance of this package, while retaining its overall structure, then the nicest way to do it is to write a small wrapper package that requires ucharclass and then patches some of its internal macros to work more

Re: [XeTeX] Performance of ucharclasses

*sigh* On 10/23/11, Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wag...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/10/23 Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk: Tobias Schoel wrote: Besides, I also wouldn't do, if it was allowed. Who knows, what methods the author employs in order to enforce the discouragement? ;-) I

Re: [XeTeX] Performance of ucharclasses

. Instead, you can create your own package which can be loaded on top of uchar.sty or you can put your changes at the preamble of your document. It turns out not to be possible to fix the problem without fixing ucharclasses.sty itself. Regards, Bruno On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Bruno Le

[XeTeX] Performance of ucharclasses

Hello all, Loading the ucharclasses package with no option is extremely slow ( 2min on my installation), because it loads every Unicode block (as documented). The performance can be significantly improved by using lower-level code for the loops. For instance, using the following helper macro

[XeTeX] Unicode Properties

Hello, I would like to know if it is possible to access the Unicode properties of a given character from within XeTeX (e.g., Upper case letter, or Surrogate character). I am thinking of this in the context of a recent experimental addition to LaTeX3 of a regular expression engine. Currently, it