Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-16 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
Hi everybody So, no one here has got problems with TeXWorks? Or am I the only user of it around? Greetings -- /Alessandro Ceschini/ -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-16 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
Hi Taylor OK, you're right, it's a combo: fake fontspec errors in XeLaTeX and the breakdown of go-to functions in TeXWorks, are they related? I don't know. I cannot discern which one is to be blamed, for I typeset stuff in XeTeX through TeXWorks, I don't know how to use raw XeTeX nor do I use

Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-16 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
I used to... but moved to Mac so don't anymore. I can't remember the nature of the difficulties, though, it's been a while. K On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:13 AM, in message 4ec3d301.2050...@gmail.com, Alessandro Ceschini alessandroceschini...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everybody So, no one here has

Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-07 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 16:01, Alessandro Ceschini wrote: Le 31/10/2011 19:47, Alessandro Ceschini a écrit : Hi My problem is kind of complicated: 1. After processing a XeLaTeX source file the yellow lines the cross-reference between pdf and source file and vice versa is completely broken.

Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-07 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
Hi To Mojca: No, the version I'm running is NOT the one bundled with Ubuntu 11.10 (that's TL 2009), I just downloaded a dvd of TL 2011 and installed it manually via tl-install. Installation is complete (every package), and nothing of the TL 2009 package bundled with Ubuntu is installed. I

Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-07 Thread Vafa Khalighi
So, are you suggesting I should downgrade to TL 2010? Previously I was using just that version, without any apparent problem, all started when I upgraded to TL 2011 (but after a fresh install, so no remnants of TL 2010 on my hard disk). I do not think there has been major changes in XeTeX

Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-07 Thread Herbert Schulz
On Nov 7, 2011, at 5:28 AM, Vafa Khalighi wrote: So, are you suggesting I should downgrade to TL 2010? Previously I was using just that version, without any apparent problem, all started when I upgraded to TL 2011 (but after a fresh install, so no remnants of TL 2010 on my hard disk).

Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-07 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
Hi To Vafa: I uploaded a minimal working example, it's a stripped down version of a book, text removed apart from a stub using greek text (Unicode capabilities), the prologue is intact, the default font is Tinos, a freely downloadable font, but if you want you can substitute it with

Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-07 Thread Vafa Khalighi
I uploaded a minimal working example, it's a stripped down version of a book, text removed apart from a stub using greek text (Unicode capabilities), the prologue is intact, the default font is Tinos, a freely downloadable font, but if you want you can substitute it with LiberationSerif or any

Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-07 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
Hi To Vafa: Wait, there exists a Liberation Serif Italic, just look in your \usr\share\fonts directory, it's not normal to get such an error, and no, I didn't get it back in TexLive 2010. Have you also noticed something like this in your output console?

Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-07 Thread Vafa Khalighi
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Alessandro Ceschini alessandroceschini...@gmail.com wrote: Hi To Vafa: Wait, there exists a Liberation Serif Italic, just look in your \usr\share\fonts directory, it's not normal to get such an error, and no, I didn't get it back in TexLive 2010. Right.

Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-07 Thread Zdenek Wagner
Hi, my Liberation Serif (from CentOS 5) contains italic but not greek. I processed the file by TL 2009, 2010, 2011, the results are at http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/stripped-down/ 2011/11/7 Alessandro Ceschini alessandroceschini...@gmail.com: Hi To Vafa: Wait, there exists a Liberation Serif

Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-07 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
Hi guys, Why should fontspec try to load a crappy slanted shape in the first place? I just don't understand why! Slanted shapes are a last-resort stuff, not first-choice. So why loading a slanted shape when the italic is available? I will take a look at your output files, but the real issues

Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-07 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/7 Alessandro Ceschini alessandroceschini...@gmail.com: Hi guys, Why should fontspec try to load a crappy slanted shape in the first place? I At my computer Liberation Serif Italic (and Bold Italic) is found and used. just don't understand why! Slanted shapes are a last-resort stuff,

Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-07 Thread Susan Dittmar
I can't help with the original problem, but I would like to comment on a question that came up as an aside: Quoting Alessandro Ceschini (alessandroceschini...@gmail.com): Why should fontspec try to load a crappy slanted shape in the first place? I just don't understand why! Slanted shapes are

Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-07 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 07.11.2011 um 12:50 schrieb Alessandro Ceschini: I uploaded a minimal working example Slanted text font can be made like this with fontspec: \newfontface\slanted[RawFeature={slant=0.194}]{Lucida Bright} \DeclareRobustCommand{\textsl}[1]{{\slanted #1}} -- Greetings Pete Klingons do

Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-07 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
On Monday 07 November 2011 06:24 PM, Alessandro Ceschini wrote: To Chandra The reality is I just don't subscribe to the mailing list in order to avoid getting my box flooded with issues I don't bother with, I just answer by clicking on the address at tug.org/pipemail/xetex etc... I understand

Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-07 Thread Andy Lin
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 08:48, Alessandro Ceschini alessandroceschini...@gmail.com wrote: Why should fontspec try to load a crappy slanted shape in the first place? Slanted =/= crappy. You have have optically adjusted obliques for sans serif typefaces. You can even have slanted serif fonts.

Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-07 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
Hi everybody Chadra, I took a look at your log file and you get this: LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `EU1/LiberationSerif(0)/m/sl' undefined (Font) using `EU1/LiberationSerif(0)/m/n' instead on input line 44 But no fontspec error related to Greek, actually the output is positive:

Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-07 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 07.11.2011 um 13:54 schrieb Alessandro Ceschini: That too is new for me, it's a fake error since Greek letters are correctly displayed and Tinos DOES contain Greek letters. So, what's wrong with fontspec? The existence of (some) Greek letters does not preclude the font's support for

Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-07 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
To Peter: Hi Those warnings appear with practically every stuff that involves Unicode or Opentype issues, from polytonic Greek to ligatures, to localized glyphs, everything revolving around fontspec with whichever font, gives me such warnings. Greetings -- /Alessandro Ceschini/

Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-07 Thread Ross Moore
Hi Alessandro, On 07/11/2011, at 10:14 PM, Alessandro Ceschini wrote: Hi To Mojca: No, the version I'm running is NOT the one bundled with Ubuntu 11.10 (that's TL 2009), I just downloaded a dvd of TL 2011 and installed it manually via tl-install. Installation is complete (every

Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-07 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 07.11.2011 um 23:31 schrieb Ross Moore: (and apologies to Mojca if I've just mis-represented him) Ross, do you mean Mojca with him? (I'm confident she is still a woman. In which case a her would be appropriate. But I also wonder why Mail chose this signature…) -- Greetings Pete

Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-07 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 23:31, Ross Moore wrote: But Ubuntu probably just took the released version and not the branch with fixes. Also, unless I'm mistaken, I'm not aware of official TL distribution shipping patched binaries either and I don't exactly understand why since the mechanism to

Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-07 Thread Ross Moore
Hi Peter, On 08/11/2011, at 9:50 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote: Am 07.11.2011 um 23:31 schrieb Ross Moore: (and apologies to Mojca if I've just mis-represented him) Ross, do you mean Mojca with him? (I'm confident she is still a woman. In which case a her would be appropriate. Ooops. My

Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-06 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
Le 31/10/2011 19:47, Alessandro Ceschini a écrit : Hi My problem is kind of complicated: 1. After processing a XeLaTeX source file the yellow lines the cross-reference between pdf and source file and vice versa is completely broken. 2. This happens after I updated to Ubuntu 11.10, TexLive

Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-06 Thread Andy Lin
I don't use Ubuntu, but if you have both TL2010 and 2011, I'd check the directories that are in fontconfig (or run fc-cache -v and see which directories it's looking in). It may be that fontspec is complaining because it finds duplicate sets of fonts between the two installations. Your PDFs would

Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-06 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
To Andy: Hi No, I only have TL2011 and nothing of the bundled version (2009) is installed, and no, there's no duplicate of the font, actually this happens with every font, it's a bit weird for every font to be duplicated. The directories are the standard ones: \usr\share\fonts and ~\.fonts\

Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-06 Thread Andy Lin
Hmm, according to that ticket on the texwork site, someone else has the same problem, so it doesn't seem to be something unique to your set up. I'm surprised that it's SyncTeX that's the culprit, since the project page hasn't been updated since 2008, unless it's moved. Unfortunately, I can't help

[XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-10-31 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
Hi My problem is kind of complicated: 1. After processing a XeLaTeX source file the yellow lines the cross-reference between pdf and source file and vice versa is completely broken. 2. This happens after I updated to Ubuntu 11.10, TexLive 2011 and texWorks 0.5, previously I was using Ubuntu