Re: [XeTeX] wrong glyphs with FreeSerif Italic

2013-12-27 Thread Julian Bradfield
On 2013-12-27, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 02:36:55PM +, Julian Bradfield wrote: My xelatex version is This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-0.9997.5 (TeX Live 2011) (format=xelatex 20 12.11.27) There was a problem with old versions of XeTeX

Re: [XeTeX] \centerline on custom paper size with plain XeTeX

2014-11-03 Thread Julian Bradfield
On 2014-11-03, Deepak Jois deepak.j...@gmail.com wrote: I want \centerline to properly center a line on a page with a custom size. The minimal example below does not work for me. I even tried to compile the code with xetex -papersize=a5 What am I missing? Code:

Re: [XeTeX] Σχετ: Re: Σχετ: Re: Assignment of codes (particularly \catcode) based on Unicode data

2015-05-07 Thread Julian Bradfield
On 2015-05-07, Apostolos Syropoulos asyropou...@yahoo.com wrote: Well I do not know what Dendrinos says I just happen to know what people do in typography and in everyday practice. Which is not what the Unicode uppercase mapping is for. The uppercase mapping in the data file gives a default

Re: [XeTeX] Assignment of codes (particularly \catcode) based on Unicode data

2015-05-06 Thread Julian Bradfield
On 2015-05-06, Apostolos Syropoulos asyropou...@yahoo.com wrote: I checked a bit the file and I have noticed that \L 1F10 1F18 1F10 % while xgreek.sty defines \global\lccode1F10=1F10 \global\uccode1F10=0395 You see the uppercase of 'GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH PSILI' is 'GREEK LETTER

Re: [XeTeX] additional beginL endL nodes in math

2015-04-17 Thread Julian Bradfield
On 2015-04-16, David Carlisle d.p.carli...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 April 2015 at 20:51, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: That was very naive and did not work when inline math is broken over multiple lines, so I reverted this and the whole TeX-XeT business. XeTeX in TeX Live 2015 should

Re: [XeTeX] Overfull boxes return status of 0 in XeTeX

2016-03-13 Thread Julian Bradfield
On 2016-03-13, Philip Taylor wrote: > Yes, it is the "inspecting the log file" that I am trying to avoid, in > the interests of efficiency; an inspection of the log file should be > required (as it currently is) only if the status code returned by *TeX > is non-zero. You are

Re: [XeTeX] Overfull boxes return status of 0 in XeTeX

2016-03-13 Thread Julian Bradfield
On 2016-03-13, Philip Taylor wrote: > I respectfully disagree. I am advocating the philosophically correct > approach, requiring a small amount of work by a small number of people > -- those responsible for eTeX, PdfTeX and XeTeX : I assume that LuaTeX > can already handle

Re: [XeTeX] ifcat changed?

2017-04-16 Thread Julian Bradfield
On 2017-04-16, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wag...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2017-04-16 10:08 GMT+02:00 Julian Bradfield <jcb+xe...@jcbradfield.org>: >> Definitely a bug. The TeXbook defines the behaviour of \if and \ifcat, >> and all control sequences are considered

Re: [XeTeX] ifcat changed?

2017-04-16 Thread Julian Bradfield
On 2017-04-15, Bruno Le Floch wrote: > 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 Definitely a bug. The TeXbook defines the

Re: no more subject prefix for xetex mailing list

2019-03-05 Thread Julian Bradfield
On 2019-03-05, Zdenek Wagner wrote: [ Please don't top-post. ] > Now assume that someb...@nodkim.org sned a mail to the list. > @nodkim.org has neither DKIM nor DMARC. The mail is distributed to the > subscribers. SPF passes, @nodkim.org does not provide DKIM and there > are no headers. There

Re: no more subject prefix for xetex mailing list

2019-03-05 Thread Julian Bradfield
On 2019-03-05, Zdenek Wagner wrote: >> > And the last thing, setting of DMARC at tug.org is wrong, the DNS >> > query returns the SPF record, not the DMARC record. >> >> No, it isn't wrong - there is no setting for DMARC. >> A dns query for _dmarc.tug.org TXT records returns two records: >> >>

[XeTeX] mktexfmt fail on non-letter

2019-05-17 Thread Julian Bradfield
I just ran xetex for the first time on my work desktop, which is running RHEL7 Linux, with a texlive 2018 distribution. Making the .fmt file failed owing to numbers in hyphenation patterns in three languages: for example:

Re: [XeTeX] Problem with ifpdf switch

2020-07-06 Thread Julian Bradfield
On 2020-07-06, John Was wrote: > On acquiring a new PC I decided to install the latest TeXLive (previously I > was on the 2013 version). I use plain XeTeX. To my surprise, the first > page now has at the top the text: > > ifpdf [2016/04/04 v3.0 Provides the ifpdf switch] > > See the attached

Re: [XeTeX] Σχετ: Re: Σχετ: Re: Off topic (interesting) question

2022-08-20 Thread Julian Bradfield
On 2022-08-20, Apostolos Syropoulos via XeTeX wrote: > My question is if English language speakerslearn in school why they write > history andnot istory. The answer seems to be: No.What you say is completely What do you expect us to learn? The word is pronounced with /h/ and written with h-.

Re: [XeTeX] Σχετ: Re: Σχετ: Re: Off topic (interesting) question

2022-08-20 Thread Julian Bradfield
> I have no axe to grind in this intra-Hellenic debate, but may I ask the > two protagonists whether they view the current American practice of both Come, come: you mean "the protagonist and deuteragonist" !