Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks
Hi Phil,
Have you ever tried
\input miniltx.tex
This then allows a subset of LaTeX structural commands and internals to be used
without the documentclass stuff — which is what I think you detest most.
Now many LaTeX packages can be loaded and used, without problems, in what are
otherwise plain TeX documents. Just use, e.g.
\usepackage{color}
as in a LaTeX document.
I'm pretty sure that graphics.sty and graphicx.sty are usable this way, and
also hyperref.sty ,
and its driver files, including hdvipdfmx.def — I think this is the correct
name.
Now all the documentation you want about hyperlinks is in the book The LaTeX
Web Companion, or in the PDFs built from the .dtx documentation files for the
LaTeX packages.
Use the texdoc command to access these.
Beware that not all LaTeX packages work this way. That will depend upon what
the authors of the packages have used internally. There can be inter-package
dependencies, ultimately leading back to the parts of LaTeX that you have not
loaded. You have to just try things out, and use what works, perhaps keeping
records of what does or does not.
Hope this helps,
Ross
On 15/04/2014, at 19:07, Philip Taylor wrote:
>
>
> Khaled Hosny wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:58:23PM +0100, Philip Taylor wrote:
>>>
>>> Why are these key XeTeX primitives (\XeTeXprotrudechars, \rpcode, etc)
>>> not documented in /The XƎTEX reference guide/ ? Will, Khaled,
>>> Jonathan : can you comment on this, and will these (and any other
>>> currently undocumented primitives) be documented in the version of
>>> /The XƎTEX reference guide/ which accompanies TeX Live 2014 ?
>>
>> From me: simply because I know near nothing about them.
>
> Fully understood. In that case, may I ask Jonathan where these primitives
> are, in fact, documented, so that Khaled and Will can
> potentially make use of this information if they choose to
> prepare a TeX Live 2014 edition of /The XƎTEX reference guide/ ?
>
> Also, are there any other currently undocumented XeTeX primitives,
> and where can be found any information on embedding hyperlinks
> using XeTeX ?
>
> Philip Taylor
>
>
>
>
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Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, \XeTeXprotrudechars, \rpcode, etc.
On 15/4/14 11:05, Philip Taylor wrote:
... and are
you also aware of any documentation discussing how hyperlinks
can be embedded using XeTeX, another apparently undocumented feature
that is successfully exploited by "hyperref", "eplain", etc., yet
for which no primitive-level documentation seems to exist.
IIRC, hyperlinks are handled entirely at the pdf output driver level;
there are no xetex primitives involved. It's just a question of
inserting appropriate \special{pdf: ...} commands.
So try looking for dvipdfmx documentation about the \special commands it
supports, and the PDF spec if you need help with the exact PDF fragments
to insert. In particular,
http://project.ktug.org/dvipdfmx/doc/tb94cho.pdf might be helpful.
JK
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Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, \XeTeXprotrudechars, \rpcode, etc.
Dear Philip, I found Corresponding ones in pdfTeX in the pdfTeX manual: \pdfprotrudechars (integer) Yet another way of optimizing paragraph breaking is to let certain characters move into the margin (‘character protrusion’). When \pdfprotrudechars=1, the glyphs qualified as such will make this move when applicable, without changing the line-breaking. When \pdfprotrudechars=2 (or greater), character protrusion will be taken into account while considering breakpoints, so line-breaking might be changed. This qualification and the amount of shift are set by the primitives \rpcode and \lpcode. Character protrusion is disabled when \pdfprotrudechars=0 (or negative). If you want to protrude some item other than a character (e.g. a \hbox), you can do so by padding the item with an invisible zero--width character, for which protrusion is activated. \rpcode <8-bit number> (integer) The amount that a character from a given font may shift into the right margin (‘character protrusion’) is set by the primitive \rpcode. The protrusion distance is the integer value given to \rpcode, multiplied with 0.001em from the current font. The given integer value is clipped to the range -1000..1000, corresponding to a usable protrusion range of -1 em..1 em. Example: \rpcode\somefont`,=200 \rpcode\somefont`-=150 Here the comma may shift by 0.2 em into the margin and the hyphen by 0.15 em. All these small bits and pieces will help pdfTEX to give you better paragraphs (use \rpcode judiciously; don’t overdo it). Remark: old versions of pdfTEX use the character width as measure. This was changed to a proportion of the em-width after Han The´ Thanh finished his master’s thesis. \lpcode <8-bit number> (integer) This is similar to \rpcode, but affects the amount by which characters may protrude into the left margin. Also here the given integer value is clipped to the range -1000..1000. Best, Akira -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, \XeTeXprotrudechars, \rpcode, etc.
Fine, many thanks Jonathan; will do.
** Phil.
Jonathan Kew wrote:
IIRC, hyperlinks are handled entirely at the pdf output driver level;
there are no xetex primitives involved. It's just a question of
inserting appropriate \special{pdf: ...} commands.
So try looking for dvipdfmx documentation about the \special commands it
supports, and the PDF spec if you need help with the exact PDF fragments
to insert. In particular,
http://project.ktug.org/dvipdfmx/doc/tb94cho.pdf might be helpful.
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[XeTeX] XeTeX, \XeTeXprotrudechars, \rpcode, etc.
Good morning Thành -- I have for some time been trying to get to the bottom of the mysterious new primitives in XeTeX that include \XeTeXprotrudechars, \rpcode, etc. The only "documentation" of these is a brief e-mail from JK dated Mon May 3 01:12:46 CEST 2010 : http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2010-May/016465.html in which he mentions that they have been added. Despite the fact that they have therefore been around for about four years, they are still not documented in /The XƎTEX reference guide/, and Khaled today wrote : From me: simply because I know near nothing about them. Vafa then noted : If I recall correctly, Hàn Thế Thành added these primitives to XeTeX; therefore he knows them best. and so I am pursuing it with you. Are you able to point me at any formal documentation for this set of primitives to which I can refer Khaled, Will et al., in the hopes that they will finally be documented for TeX Live 2014, and are you also aware of any documentation discussing how hyperlinks can be embedded using XeTeX, another apparently undocumented feature that is successfully exploited by "hyperref", "eplain", etc., yet for which no primitive-level documentation seems to exist. ** Phil. -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks
OK, thank you Vafa, I will ask Thành. ** Phil. Vafa Khalighi wrote: If I recall correctly, Hàn Thế Thành added these primitives to XeTeX; therefore he knows them best. -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks
If I recall correctly, Hàn Thế Thành added these primitives to XeTeX; therefore he knows them best. On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Philip Taylor wrote: > > > Khaled Hosny wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:58:23PM +0100, Philip Taylor wrote: >> >>> >>> Why are these key XeTeX primitives (\XeTeXprotrudechars, \rpcode, etc) >>> not documented in /The XƎTEX reference guide/ ? Will, Khaled, >>> Jonathan : can you comment on this, and will these (and any other >>> currently undocumented primitives) be documented in the version of >>> /The XƎTEX reference guide/ which accompanies TeX Live 2014 ? >>> >> >> From me: simply because I know near nothing about them. >> > > Fully understood. In that case, may I ask Jonathan where these primitives > are, in fact, documented, so that Khaled and Will can > potentially make use of this information if they choose to > prepare a TeX Live 2014 edition of /The XƎTEX reference guide/ ? > > Also, are there any other currently undocumented XeTeX primitives, > and where can be found any information on embedding hyperlinks > using XeTeX ? > > Philip Taylor > > > > > -- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks
Khaled Hosny wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:58:23PM +0100, Philip Taylor wrote: Why are these key XeTeX primitives (\XeTeXprotrudechars, \rpcode, etc) not documented in /The XƎTEX reference guide/ ? Will, Khaled, Jonathan : can you comment on this, and will these (and any other currently undocumented primitives) be documented in the version of /The XƎTEX reference guide/ which accompanies TeX Live 2014 ? From me: simply because I know near nothing about them. Fully understood. In that case, may I ask Jonathan where these primitives are, in fact, documented, so that Khaled and Will can potentially make use of this information if they choose to prepare a TeX Live 2014 edition of /The XƎTEX reference guide/ ? Also, are there any other currently undocumented XeTeX primitives, and where can be found any information on embedding hyperlinks using XeTeX ? Philip Taylor -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
