Dear Norbert,
sorry for bugging you. Am Donnerstag, den 12.02.2009, 13:35 +0100 schrieb Norbert Preining: > > I am raising the severity because xelatex is unusable for me. > > What about simply using > \"Ubung ... > and then xelatex ... > > That works. > > > In my message from Sunday 13:47 (EST) I enumerated some ways to fix > > this. > > No, you enumerated problems, no ways to fix it. Well, I consider documenting this bug in README.Debian as a fix and would appreciate if you could point to this report or write down to use \" for umlauts (although this defeats the purpose to use xelatex for full UTF-8 support). > The fix is useing \"U for now. This works for me. > > If I am wrong about the severity, I am sorry. > > Yes you are. Noone ever said that xetex is ready for full math > typesetting. That is so much WIP, the lmodern fonts in use in Debian > imply don't have the math stuff AFAIS set up properly. > > But we cannot update only lmodern, because there are a bunch of other > things we would have to touch withing texlive (fontspec eg). That is not > a good idea. > > > So your options are: > - wait for texlive 2008 in Debian > - install texlive 2008 as is (no debian packages) > (I can confirm that using test-fontspec in TL2008 gives the expected > output) > - use pdflatex > - use \" notation (recode is your friend, I guess it has a mode for > that) > - install updated packages for fontspc, lmodern etc locally > > But there is no fix for *all*. Thanks for your answer and work, Paul
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