Re: [XeTeX] Mixed Roman and Indian alphabets for Sanskrit

2017-02-13 Thread alessandro
Hi Dominik, this is how I'm doing it. Hope it helps. Best, Alessandro -- \documentclass{article} \usepackage{polyglossia} \setdefaultlanguage{english} \setotherlanguage{sanskrit} \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex

Re: [XeTeX] Mixed Roman and Indian alphabets for Sanskrit

2017-02-14 Thread alessandro
t the italics along: \newcommand{\romskt}[1]{\textsanskrit{\emph{#1}}} Cheers, Alessanro On 02/14/2017 03:00 PM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote: Nice to see you here, Alessandro! Many thanks for your code. So it's the \begin{sanskrit} that switches on the correct hyphenation. And the string &

[XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro & XeTex

2011-01-09 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
Hello everybody, With the MinionPro font, if I try to typeset a localized form(specifically, Serbian) of U+0431 "CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BE" preceded by U+0423 "CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER U", Xe(La)Tex doesn't kern it the right way, because it provides me with a blatant case of characters stuck togethe

Re: [XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro & XeTex

2011-01-11 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
Hi Peter, That would be redundant since the Polyglossia package already takes care of selecting alphabet & language, thus also the relevant localized glyphs if needed. \usepackage{Polyglossia} \setmainlanguage{Serbian} However I tried to add: \defaultfontfeatures{Language=Serbian, Script=Cyrill

Re: [XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro & XeTex

2011-01-11 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
That would be redundant since the Polyglossia package already takes care of selecting alphabet & language, thus also the relevant localized glyphs if needed. \usepackage{Polyglossia} \setmainlanguage{Serbian} However I tried to add: \defaultfontfeatures{Language=Serbian, Script=Cyrillic, Mapping

Re: [XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro & XeTex

2011-02-05 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
Hy there, My problem should stem from XeTeX's inability to read the GPOS (Glyph Positioning Table) as in PangoView MinionPro's glyph positioning is OK. -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro & XeTex

2011-02-05 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
Yeah, as I told you I'd taken a look in FontForge and it came out font designers had anticipated such combination in the kerning pairs table. In effect it works in PangoView but I can't figure out how to direct the output toward a pdf, so I can't show you the right kerning, anyhow there should be m

Re: [XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro & XeTex

2011-02-05 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
st) a écrit : > On 11-02-05 22:41, Alessandro Ceschini wrote: > > Yeah, as I told you I'd taken a look in FontForge and it came out font > > designers had anticipated such combination in the kerning pairs table. > > In effect it works in PangoView but I can't fig

Re: [XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro & XeTex

2011-02-05 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
OK, I got it know. Can you suggest me any workaround? This bug is very annoying since the combination occurs frequently. Thank you Le samedi 05 février 2011 à 23:21 +0100, Adam Twardoch (List) a écrit : > Ps. Technically speaking, in OpenType, kerning moves the right > sidebearing of the first gly

[XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro & XeTex

2011-02-06 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
Thank you, Peter. I tried but it's still far from being satisfying. Too much on the right now. Looking on FontForge the kerning set by designers for the combination of glyphs uni0423+uni0431.ital is -53. Previously Peter reported a kerning value of -183. However, I don't know if the units of measur

[XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro & XeTex

2011-02-06 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
-2ex is OK, it looks remarkably like the output FontForge proposes. To John: I don't think there should be copyright infringements, as I'm modifying output, not the font per se. And what's more it's XeTeX that gets it wrong, by apparently ignoring the *right* kerning set by font designers. What I'

[XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro & XeTex

2011-02-06 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
To Peter: Yeah, it's -0.2ex, I made a typing error. Now, what about the "kerning=mykerns" option that would allow me to set a standard paradigm for this combination without having to look for & add relevant instructions ad infinitum? Thank you -- S

[XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro & XeTex

2011-02-06 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
Ahem... not so easy! I looked for something more down-to-earth. -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

[XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro & XeTex

2011-02-07 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
nd that doesn't force me to undergo the epic effort of manually kerning the book. Best wishes -- Alessandro Ceschini -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

[XeTeX] Kerning flaw with MinionPro & XeTex

2011-02-07 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
also sound quite offensive! Please watch your language! Greetings -- Alessandro Ceschini -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

[XeTeX] Customizing footnote markers

2011-05-24 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
x27;t seem to offer such an option. Thank you for helping me, -- Alessandro Ceschini -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

[XeTeX] Customizing footnote markers

2011-05-25 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
number sign: n\textsuperscript{o} I cannot use babel in this case for I need Classical Greek with a Unicode font in my text, so I'm forced to rely on polyglossia and XeTeX. So, back to my question: Can footmisc be of use here? -- Alessandro Ces

[XeTeX] Customizing footnote markers

2011-05-25 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
e other secondary languages, namely: Dutch, English, Italian, German and Latin ? Should I load them via polyglossia or babel? -- Alessandro Ceschini -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

[XeTeX] Customizing footnote markers

2011-05-25 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
pression that French footnotes do require even more indentation than normal ones. -- Alessandro Ceschini -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

[XeTeX] Customizing footnote markers

2011-06-05 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
nows why it doesn't work? -- Alessandro Ceschini -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

[XeTeX] Customizing footnote markers

2011-06-05 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
tnote marker. -- Alessandro Ceschini -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

[XeTeX] Customizing footnote markers

2011-06-05 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
So should it look like this: \makeatletter \newdimen\parindentFFN \parindentFFN=10in \renewcommand \@makefntext [1]% {% \leavevmode \hbox to \parindentFFN {}\@thefnmark.~#1% } \makeatother It doesn't work, anyhow. -- Aless

[XeTeX] Customizing footnote markers

2011-06-05 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
rfull \hbox (381.70668pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 641--641 [][]\EU1/GaramondPremierPro(0)/m/n/10 67. []MIDALI| [43] And no indentation to be seen, actually numbers have all but disappeared and the text appears to be cut. -- Alessandro Ceschini --

[XeTeX] Customizing footnote markers

2011-06-05 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
tORI\@makefntext \long\def\@makefntext#1{% \ifFBFrenchFootnotes \@makefntextFB{#1}% \else \@makefntextORI{#1}% \fi}% }%

[XeTeX] Customizing footnote markers

2011-06-05 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
} \usepackage{enumitem} \setenumerate{nolistsep} \setitemize{nolistsep, label=$-$} \usepackage{footmisc} -- Alessandro Ceschini -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

[XeTeX] Customizing footnote markers

2011-06-05 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
Sorry Phillip, but I can't find the way to post an attach here. I can't just copy all the .tex file in a mail, it's just too long! But, if you don't mind, I could send it to you via your mail. Obviously, if your enthusiasm has recovered, of course. --

Re: [XeTeX] Hyphenation in Transliterated Sanskrit

2011-09-12 Thread alessandro graheli
pting Italian hyphenating patterns, one probably gets slightly better results as far as traditional syllabic division of Sanskrit. Best, Alessandro Graheli Il giorno 12/set/11, alle ore 12:58, Dominik Wujastyk ha scritto: I've just had a stimulating conversation about this with my friend an

[XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-10-31 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
t this had something to do with TeXWorks: http://code.google.com/p/texworks/issues/detail?id=550#makechanges but then they told me the SyncTeX code is to be blamed for that. Greetings -- /Alessandro Ceschini/ -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List inform

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 Alessandro Ceschini
~\.fonts\ As far as PATH is concerned, I can run tlmgr update --all from my home path, I think that means PATH works fine. Right? But the real problem is in TeXWorks, the go to pdf and go to source files functions are completely broken, that's the real issue. Greetings -- /Ales

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

2011-11-07 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
stalled. I checked this. To Ross: 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). Regards -- /Alessandr

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

2011-11-07 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
Schulz: Of course I did update, I actually run sudo tlmgr update --all every day. Greetings -- /Alessandro Ceschini/ \documentclass[a4paper, 12pt, openany, draft]{book} \usepackage{a4wide} \usepackage{fontspec} \usepackage{paralist} \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text} \setmainfont{Tinos} \

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

2011-11-07 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
.. I understand that's rude and selfish so if that's really strictly necessary, I'll ultimately subscribe to the mailing list. Just let me know. Greetings -- /Alessandro Ceschini/ -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

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

2011-11-07 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
ssues is not fontspec errors, it's the broken go-to functions in TeXWorks, none of you use TeXWorks, right? We also don't know if those fontspec errors are related with go-to functions in TeXWorks, maybe it's just a coincidence that they happen to occur together. Greetings --

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

2011-11-07 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
ot relevant in my case): * * fontspec warning: "script-not-exist" * * Font 'LiberationSerif' does not contain script 'Greek'. * And, what's more, you do have a mess in both (2010 & 2011)

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

2011-11-16 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
w XeTeX nor do I use other LaTeX flavors in TeXWorks. What's for sure, that's that TeXWorks is not the chief culprit here, the developers told me so: http://code.google.com/p/texworks/issues/detail?id=550#makechanges Yet, no one has apparently been able to reproduce my error. Gre

[XeTeX] Problem with Turkish dotted I (U+0130) in headers

2013-05-30 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
em is that "i" gets capitalized in Turkish as dotted I, that is: "İ" (U+0130) and this, XeLaTeX doesn't do. Is there a way to enjoin it to do so? ** -- Alessandro Ceschini -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information,

Re: [XeTeX] Problem with Turkish dotted I (U+0130) in headers

2013-05-30 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
document, such type of capitalization should be restricted to Turkish. Thanks anyway, as far as my needs are concerned, this workaround satisfies me. -- /Alessandro Ceschini/ -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://

[XeTeX] XeLaTeX PDF Glitch with Serbian Glyphs

2013-09-16 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
doesn't happen with PDF produced by LibreOffice 4.1, which now supports OpenType and therefore localised glyphs: characters are correctly copied, and even if the recipient program doesn't support OpenType, then standard glyphs are displayed. -- /Alessandr

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX PDF Glitch with Serbian Glyphs

2013-09-17 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
Hello Ross, I attached the whole output, not just the pdf, in the even that you wish to check the .tex file as well. I've also attached the output, that is the pasted text from the .pdf as it appears on LO. The font is always the same, FreeSerif, bundled with Ubuntu. Regards, -- /Aless

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX PDF Glitch with Serbian Glyphs

2013-09-17 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
Hello Ross, I attached the whole output, not just the pdf, in the even that you wish to check the .tex file as well. I've also attached the output, that is the pasted text from the .pdf as it appears on LO. The font is always the same, FreeSerif, bundled with Ubuntu. Regards, -- /Aless

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX PDF Glitch with Serbian Glyphs

2013-09-18 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
Hello everybody, This is indeed the latest version from SVN. However, even glyphs with "correct names' fail to be copied correctly, as you can see: so, maybe this is not the real issue. Regards, -- /Alessandro Ceschini/ -- Sub

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX PDF Glitch with Serbian Glyphs

2013-09-21 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
est wishes, -- /Alessandro Ceschini/ -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex