Re: Full XeTeX support
On Thursday 26 July 2007 15:36:32 Lyx user wrote: Now that Unicode is supported and everyone is looking towards version 1.6, I would like to suggest full support for XeTeX. It is currently the most comprehensive way to put Unicode characters in a TeX document. Another great feature is direct access to TrueType and OpenType fonts. LyX would have to check if XeTeX is available, and if it is, modify the font selection dialog to allow access to additional fonts. The appropriate commands would then be included in the preamble. It would also be nice to have XeTeX font selection commands (throught the fontspec package) available from the paragraph or character style dialogs. The major limitation of XeTeX right now is poor math support, but it is possible (with the nomath option) to have equations passed to plain TeX/LaTeX with the standard fonts, while having the XeTeX features available in text mode. You can see some of the capabilities of the program here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.pdf I have placed this request under the wiki page: http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/UsersRequests -- José Abílio
Re: Full XeTeX support
To learn more about XeTeX, see also this video: http://www.river-valley.tv/conferences/tex/tug2007/#Jonathan_Kew2 Regards, Asger
Re: Full XeTeX support
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, José Matos wrote: On Thursday 26 July 2007 15:36:32 Lyx user wrote: Now that Unicode is supported and everyone is looking towards version 1.6, I would like to suggest full support for XeTeX. It is currently the most comprehensive way to put Unicode characters in a TeX document. Another great feature is direct access to TrueType and OpenType fonts. LyX would have to check if XeTeX is available, and if it is, modify the font selection dialog to allow access to additional fonts. The appropriate commands would then be included in the preamble. It would also be nice to have XeTeX font selection commands (throught the fontspec package) available from the paragraph or character style dialogs. The major limitation of XeTeX right now is poor math support, but it is possible (with the nomath option) to have equations passed to plain TeX/LaTeX with the standard fonts, while having the XeTeX features available in text mode. You can see some of the capabilities of the program here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.pdf I have placed this request under the wiki page: http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/UsersRequests Umm... shouldn't it go into bugzilla? If we want to show them on a wiki page, we could tag them in someway (or a special search), and have that embedded in a wiki page? Jose', are you going all wiki wiki on us? ;-) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Full XeTeX support
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 07:02:52PM +0200, Asger Ottar Alstrup wrote: To learn more about XeTeX, see also this video: http://www.river-valley.tv/conferences/tex/tug2007/#Jonathan_Kew2 Nice. Looks like a really intresting development. Andre'
Re: Full XeTeX support
On Thursday 23 August 2007 20:13:35 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Umm... shouldn't it go into bugzilla? Yes. :-) If we want to show them on a wiki page, we could tag them in someway (or a special search), and have that embedded in a wiki page? And so I did. Have you seen http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/UsersRequests? Jose', are you going all wiki wiki on us? ;-) Not, unless it is all in python. ;-) Now that you mention trac has some other possibilities... just joking. :-) /Christian -- José Abílio
Re: Full XeTeX support
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, José Matos wrote: On Thursday 23 August 2007 20:13:35 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Umm... shouldn't it go into bugzilla? Yes. :-) If we want to show them on a wiki page, we could tag them in someway (or a special search), and have that embedded in a wiki page? And so I did. Have you seen http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/UsersRequests? Nice! Jose', are you going all wiki wiki on us? ;-) Not, unless it is all in python. ;-) Now that you mention trac has some other possibilities... just joking. :-) Well, just for you I could change the entire wiki engine ;-) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Full XeTeX support
On Thursday 26 July 2007 15:36:32 Lyx user wrote: > Now that Unicode is supported and everyone is looking towards version 1.6, > I would like to suggest full support for XeTeX. It is currently the most > comprehensive way to put Unicode characters in a TeX document. Another > great feature is direct access to TrueType and OpenType fonts. > > LyX would have to check if XeTeX is available, and if it is, modify the > font selection dialog to allow access to additional fonts. The appropriate > commands would then be included in the preamble. It would also be nice to > have XeTeX font selection commands (throught the fontspec package) > available from the paragraph or character style dialogs. > > The major limitation of XeTeX right now is poor math support, but it is > possible (with the "nomath" option) to have equations passed to plain > TeX/LaTeX with the standard fonts, while having the XeTeX features > available in text mode. > > You can see some of the capabilities of the program here: > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.pdf I have placed this request under the wiki page: http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/UsersRequests -- José Abílio
Re: Full XeTeX support
To learn more about XeTeX, see also this video: http://www.river-valley.tv/conferences/tex/tug2007/#Jonathan_Kew2 Regards, Asger
Re: Full XeTeX support
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, José Matos wrote: On Thursday 26 July 2007 15:36:32 Lyx user wrote: Now that Unicode is supported and everyone is looking towards version 1.6, I would like to suggest full support for XeTeX. It is currently the most comprehensive way to put Unicode characters in a TeX document. Another great feature is direct access to TrueType and OpenType fonts. LyX would have to check if XeTeX is available, and if it is, modify the font selection dialog to allow access to additional fonts. The appropriate commands would then be included in the preamble. It would also be nice to have XeTeX font selection commands (throught the fontspec package) available from the paragraph or character style dialogs. The major limitation of XeTeX right now is poor math support, but it is possible (with the "nomath" option) to have equations passed to plain TeX/LaTeX with the standard fonts, while having the XeTeX features available in text mode. You can see some of the capabilities of the program here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.pdf I have placed this request under the wiki page: http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/UsersRequests Umm... shouldn't it go into bugzilla? If we want to show them on a wiki page, we could tag them in someway (or a special search), and have that embedded in a wiki page? Jose', are you going all wiki wiki on us? ;-) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Full XeTeX support
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 07:02:52PM +0200, Asger Ottar Alstrup wrote: > To learn more about XeTeX, see also this video: > > http://www.river-valley.tv/conferences/tex/tug2007/#Jonathan_Kew2 Nice. Looks like a really intresting development. Andre'
Re: Full XeTeX support
On Thursday 23 August 2007 20:13:35 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Umm... shouldn't it go into bugzilla? Yes. :-) > If we want to show them on a wiki > page, we could tag them in someway (or a special search), and have that > embedded in a wiki page? And so I did. Have you seen http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/UsersRequests? > Jose', are you going all wiki wiki on us? ;-) Not, unless it is all in python. ;-) Now that you mention trac has some other possibilities... just joking. :-) > /Christian -- José Abílio
Re: Full XeTeX support
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, José Matos wrote: On Thursday 23 August 2007 20:13:35 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Umm... shouldn't it go into bugzilla? Yes. :-) If we want to show them on a wiki page, we could tag them in someway (or a special search), and have that embedded in a wiki page? And so I did. Have you seen http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/UsersRequests? Nice! Jose', are you going all wiki wiki on us? ;-) Not, unless it is all in python. ;-) Now that you mention trac has some other possibilities... just joking. :-) Well, just for you I could change the entire wiki engine ;-) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
