Re: [NTG-context] XeTex Mara Font

2008-11-18 Thread Bart C. Wise
(XeTeX doesn't use PostScript font names at all). Is it the font from http://www.perry.com/disney/indy/marafont.html? It seems to have quite a number of other problems actually (xdvipdfmx protests heavily when I try loading it with plain XeTeX). You could try saving it again from FontForge

Re: [NTG-context] XeTex Mara Font

2008-11-18 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
One quick question (again expressing my ignorance). Why can't I take the code above and change it to the following: \definetypeface[Mara][rm][Xserif][MaraFontNFPlain] \starttext \startfont[Mara] This is a test. \stoptext I have no idea ... Does it really not work? Arthur

Re: [NTG-context] XeTex Mara Font

2008-11-18 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 18.11.2008 um 23:00 schrieb Arthur Reutenauer: One quick question (again expressing my ignorance). Why can't I take the code above and change it to the following: \definetypeface[Mara][rm][Xserif][MaraFontNFPlain] \starttext \startfont[Mara] This is a test. \stoptext I have no

Re: [NTG-context] XeTex Mara Font

2008-11-18 Thread Bart C. Wise
Wolfgang, This one does work. Thanks again, Bart On Tuesday 18 November 2008 03:28:45 pm Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 18.11.2008 um 23:00 schrieb Arthur Reutenauer: One quick question (again expressing my ignorance). Why can't I take the code above and change it to the following:

[NTG-context] Fonts with XeTeX

2008-11-17 Thread Bart C. Wise
I am having difficulties writing a typescript for the Caslon font that's on my system. The following works: \definetypeface[Caslon-Bold][rm][Xserif][CaslonOldFaceBT-Heavy] \definetypeface[Caslon-Italic][rm][Xserif][CaslonOldFaceBT-Italic]

Re: [NTG-context] Fonts with XeTeX

2008-11-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
with a compile error, or the caslon font is never loaded and it reverts back to the default font. Fonts in XeTeX are still a mystery to me, but from what I've learned in the last months, it seems that the syntax for luatex typescripts can and should also be used for XeTeX. This works on my system

Re: [NTG-context] Fonts with XeTeX

2008-11-17 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
with \definefontsynonym commands, and the font names have been prepended with name:, forcing XeTeX to look for an installed font instead of a TFM (in plain XeTeX, you get the same result by surrounding the font name with double quotes). I am unable to test the typescript because I don't have

Re: [NTG-context] Fonts with XeTeX

2008-11-17 Thread Bart C. Wise
} {\it Testing} \stoptext Note the two changes: \definetypeface's in the first typescript have been replaced with \definefontsynonym commands, and the font names have been prepended with name:, forcing XeTeX to look for an installed font instead of a TFM (in plain XeTeX, you get the same

[NTG-context] pdftex and xetex not working at live.contextgarden.net

2008-11-10 Thread Pablo Rodríguez
Hi there, LuaTeX seems to have been removed from live.contextgarden.net, but it seems that neither the pdftex nor xetex engine is able to compile the most basic \starttext Hello world! \stoptext Just in case it helps and none has noticed it. Pablo

Re: [NTG-context] pdftex and xetex not working at live.contextgarden.net

2008-11-10 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Pablo Rodríguez wrote: Hi there, LuaTeX seems to have been removed from live.contextgarden.net, but it seems that neither the pdftex nor xetex engine is able to compile the most basic \starttext Hello world! \stoptext Just in case it helps and none has

Re: [NTG-context] pdftex and xetex not working at live.contextgarden.net

2008-11-10 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, LuaTeX seems to have been removed from live.contextgarden.net, but it seems that neither the pdftex nor xetex engine is able to compile the most basic \starttext Hello world! \stoptext Just in case it helps and none has noticed it. If Patrick finds no time to fix auto-format

Re: [NTG-context] linear_shade and xetex

2008-10-20 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi, linear shading in MP does not work with xetex. Since no one replied am I correct in assuming that this is currently not possible or requires a lot of work? My guess is that there are communication problems

Re: [NTG-context] linear_shade and xetex

2008-10-20 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi, linear shading in MP does not work with xetex. Since no one replied am I correct in assuming that this is currently not possible or requires a lot of work? My guess

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX old style numerals

2008-10-19 Thread Mohamed Bana
I ought to mention small caps doesn't work with the last approach. Wolfgang Schuster wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Mohamed Bana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So ... can someone provide a sample file of a document that uses old style by default? Clearly the following doesn't work;

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX old style numerals

2008-10-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
that makes the apostrophe look like the comma. Am I right? Short answer: tlig, not trep. Long answer: See the folder fonts/misc/xetex/fontmapping. Hans invented tlig and trep as a short word for tex ligatures and tex replacements. That's still a bit unstable area of ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX old style numerals

2008-10-18 Thread Jeff Smith
the apostrophe look like the comma. Am I right? Short answer: tlig, not trep. Long answer: See the folder fonts/misc/xetex/fontmapping. Hans invented tlig and trep as a short word for tex ligatures and tex replacements. That's still a bit unstable area of ConTeXt, but at the beginning it indeed

[NTG-context] linear_shade and xetex

2008-10-13 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi, linear shading in MP does not work with xetex. Consider \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \startMPcode path p ; p := unitsquare xyscaled (5cm,5cm) ; linear_shade(p,1,red, blue) ; \stopMPcode \stoptext This runs fine with pdftex and luatex, but with xetex I get ! Undefined

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX old style numerals

2008-10-11 Thread Mohamed Bana
So ... can someone provide a sample file of a document that uses old style by default? Clearly the following doesn't work; \definetypeface[myface][rm][Xserif][Minion Pro] % i've also tried %\definetypeface[myface][rm][Xserif][Warnock Pro] \definetypeface[myface][ss][Xsans][Myriad Pro]

Re: [NTG-context] metapost and luatex (or xetex)

2008-10-07 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Diego Depaoli wrote: 2008/10/3 Hans Hagen: is ok, use btex color[white]{COPYRIGHT} etex instead Please see attached output... I missed such command? \color[gray] of course Mojca

Re: [NTG-context] metapost and luatex (or xetex)

2008-10-07 Thread Diego Depaoli
2008/10/6 Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Diego Depaoli wrote: 2008/10/3 Hans Hagen: is ok, use btex color[white]{COPYRIGHT} etex instead Please see attached output... I missed such command? \color[gray] of course \color[redembarrass]{Me Stupid} works too

Re: [NTG-context] metapost and luatex (or xetex)

2008-10-06 Thread Diego Depaoli
2008/10/3 Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Diego Depaoli wrote: Hi all, from metafun manual, page 157, I took this example \startuniqueMPgraphic{copyright} picture p ; p := btex COPYRIGHT etex rotated 90 ; setbounds p to boundingbox p enlarged 1pt ; draw p withcolor .8white ;

Re: [NTG-context] metapost and luatex (or xetex)

2008-10-06 Thread Diego Depaoli
2008/10/4 Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In the case of XeTeX: no, it's not normal. If you add \loadmapfile[lm-ec.map] this solves the problem, but if I was on your place, I would use \sometxt{COPYRIGHT} instead of btex COPYRIGHT etex. \sometxt works nice. Many thanks. -- Diego Depaoli

Re: [NTG-context] metapost and luatex (or xetex)

2008-10-06 Thread luigi scarso
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Diego Depaoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/10/3 Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Diego Depaoli wrote: Hi all, from metafun manual, page 157, I took this example \startuniqueMPgraphic{copyright} picture p ; p := btex COPYRIGHT etex rotated 90 ;

Re: [NTG-context] metapost and luatex (or xetex)

2008-10-04 Thread Hans Hagen
, just define a color on the spot .. {\definecolor[temp][specs]\color[temp]text} In the case of XeTeX: no, it's not normal. If you add \loadmapfile[lm-ec.map] this solves the problem, but if I was on your place, I would use \sometxt{COPYRIGHT} instead of btex COPYRIGHT etex. indeed (althouh

[NTG-context] metapost and luatex (or xetex)

2008-10-03 Thread Diego Depaoli
Hi all, from metafun manual, page 157, I took this example \startuniqueMPgraphic{copyright} picture p ; p := btex COPYRIGHT etex rotated 90 ; setbounds p to boundingbox p enlarged 1pt ; draw p withcolor .8white ; xyscale_currentpicture(\the\leftmarginwidth,\the\textheight) ; \stopuniqueMPgraphic

Re: [NTG-context] metapost and luatex (or xetex)

2008-10-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Diego Depaoli wrote: Hi all, from metafun manual, page 157, I took this example \startuniqueMPgraphic{copyright} picture p ; p := btex COPYRIGHT etex rotated 90 ; setbounds p to boundingbox p enlarged 1pt ; draw p withcolor .8white ;

Re: [NTG-context] metapost and luatex (or xetex)

2008-10-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
it ugly.) In the case of XeTeX: no, it's not normal. If you add \loadmapfile[lm-ec.map] this solves the problem, but if I was on your place, I would use \sometxt{COPYRIGHT} instead of btex COPYRIGHT etex. Loading map files has been removed from XeTeX a while ago. Maybe lm-ec should be added back

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX old style numerals

2008-09-21 Thread Hans Hagen
Yue Wang wrote: The problem is that that's only a dirty trick that is not supposed to work and might stop working in the future, so I would rather try not to rely on it. A better interface for XeTeX typescripts (something similar to fontspec) is missing heavily. I prefer use opentype

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX old style numerals

2008-09-20 Thread Hans Hagen
Mohamed Bana wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Mohamed Bana wrote: Hi guys, Why doesn't this definition use the old style numerals that come with the font? It seems to use the latin modern font when I try to use \os. Small caps are working fine. \os is

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX old style numerals

2008-09-20 Thread Yue Wang
The problem is that that's only a dirty trick that is not supposed to work and might stop working in the future, so I would rather try not to rely on it. A better interface for XeTeX typescripts (something similar to fontspec) is missing heavily. I prefer use opentype features than add

[NTG-context] XeTeX old style numerals

2008-09-19 Thread Mohamed Bana
do I achieve the latter? As in break out of onum and typeset in the normal numbers? I'm using TeXlive 2008 on vista, the pdf reports that I'm using XeTeX version; 2008.05.21 15:21. \definetypeface[myface][rm][Xserif][Minion Pro] % i've also tried %\definetypeface[myface][rm][Xserif][Warnock Pro

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX old style numerals

2008-09-19 Thread Mojca Miklavec
that is not supposed to work and might stop working in the future, so I would rather try not to rely on it. A better interface for XeTeX typescripts (something similar to fontspec) is missing heavily. Concerning your first problem: I have tried patching Xsans definitions

Re: [NTG-context] Greek letters in math with XeTeX

2008-09-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Someone needs to write Unicode math support for mkii, or you need to make your own virtual font. Well...someone also needs to write Unicode math support for mkiv and I would work on that in the hope that there is some chance

Re: [NTG-context] Greek letters in math with XeTeX

2008-09-08 Thread Flavien Lambert
Just to understand a bit more : signs like equal are printed inside math environment with GFS Didot thanks to \definetypeface[myface][rm][Xserif][GFS Didot]. Since GFS Didot ,as a greek font has greek letters, why are these glyphs not used ? I suppose that when greek people are using directly

Re: [NTG-context] Greek letters in math with XeTeX

2008-09-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Flavien Lambert wrote: Just to understand a bit more : signs like equal are printed inside math environment with GFS Didot thanks to \definetypeface[myface][rm][Xserif][GFS Didot]. Since GFS Didot ,as a greek font has greek letters, why are these glyphs not used ? I suppose that when greek

[NTG-context] Greek letters in math with XeTeX

2008-09-07 Thread Flavien Lambert
Dear all, I try to use Open Type fonts with ConTeXt and XeTeX (I recently did the same with LaTeX using fontspec and mathspec packages). From the web site, I managed to use them for standard text as well as roman alphabet in math. Unfortunately, greek letters stay printed with the Latin Modern

[NTG-context] Greek letters in math with XeTeX

2008-09-07 Thread Flavien Lambert
(Sorry for the preceding message, I forgot the [NTG-context] for filters...) Dear all, I try to use Open Type fonts with ConTeXt and XeTeX (I recently did the same with LaTeX using fontspec and mathspec packages). From the web site, I managed to use them for standard text as well as roman

Re: [NTG-context] Greek letters in math with XeTeX

2008-09-07 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Flavien Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Sorry for the preceding message, I forgot the [NTG-context] for filters...) Dear all, I try to use Open Type fonts with ConTeXt and XeTeX (I recently did the same with LaTeX using fontspec and mathspec packages). From

Re: [NTG-context] Greek letters in math with XeTeX

2008-09-07 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Someone needs to write Unicode math support for mkii, or you need to make your own virtual font. Well...someone also needs to write Unicode math support for mkiv and I would work on that in the hope that there is some chance that I may actually

[NTG-context] Flow chart, XeTeX and transparent colors

2008-08-12 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Hi, the background for the cells in flow charts are moved to the left when you use transparent colors in a document and XeTeX as engine. \usemodule[chart] \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolor[tred][r=1,t=0.5,a=1] \setuphead[section][color=tred] \starttext \section{Section

Re: [NTG-context] mkii and xetex with tl2008: invalid fontname errors

2008-08-02 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Jesse Alama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mojca Miklavec writes: As far as I can tell this is only a complaint, in the sense that the XeTeX run finishes and produces a PDF. Is that what you mean? Yes. Though this should be fixed now anyway. Mojca

Re: [NTG-context] mkii and xetex with tl2008: invalid fontname errors

2008-08-01 Thread Jesse Alama
Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Jesse Alama wrote: \definetypeface [busted] [rm] [serif] [palatino] [default] \setupbodyfont [busted] \starttext \input tufte \stoptext Using XeTeX and ConTeXt MkII with the TeX Live 2008 developer snapshot

Re: [NTG-context] mkii and xetex with tl2008: invalid fontname errors

2008-07-31 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Jesse Alama wrote: \definetypeface [busted] [rm] [serif] [palatino] [default] \setupbodyfont [busted] \starttext \input tufte \stoptext Using XeTeX and ConTeXt MkII with the TeX Live 2008 developer snapshot (as of a few days ago), I run into a bunch

Re: [NTG-context] mkii and xetex with tl2008: invalid fontname errors

2008-07-31 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Mojca Miklavec wrote: I suspect what the error could be (harmless, though it makes sense to fix it), but I only think that error reporting got more verbose since it works here despite many warnings. Outside of TL (probably some branch of xetex trunk + latest context) I don't get that warning

Re: [NTG-context] mkii and xetex with tl2008: invalid fontname errors

2008-07-31 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Taco: ... does it actually work, and can you explain why? I don't get the error any more with that fix (and it's not an error anyway). The problem is that if there is no file: prefix in font synonyms, then ConTeXt asks for \font\whatever=texgyre-whatever:options and XeTeX first asks

Re: [NTG-context] mkii and xetex with tl2008: invalid fontname errors

2008-07-30 Thread Jesse Alama
:24 PM, Jesse Alama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using XeTeX and ConTeXt MkII with the TeX Live 2008 developer snapshot (as of a few days ago), I run into a bunch of invalid fontname errors when compiling some documents: $ texmfstart texexec --xtx file.tex TeXExec | processing document 'file.tex

Re: [NTG-context] mkii and xetex with tl2008: invalid fontname errors

2008-07-21 Thread Mojca Miklavec
: Using XeTeX and ConTeXt MkII with the TeX Live 2008 developer snapshot (as of a few days ago), I run into a bunch of invalid fontname errors when compiling some documents: $ texmfstart texexec --xtx file.tex TeXExec | processing document 'file.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex

Re: [NTG-context] mkii and xetex with tl2008: invalid fontname errors

2008-07-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Jesse Alama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Jesse Alama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using XeTeX and ConTeXt MkII with the TeX Live 2008 developer snapshot (as of a few days ago), I run

Re: [NTG-context] mkii and xetex with tl2008: invalid fontname errors

2008-07-18 Thread Jesse Alama
Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Jesse Alama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Jesse Alama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using XeTeX and ConTeXt MkII with the TeX Live 2008 developer snapshot

[NTG-context] mkii and xetex with tl2008: invalid fontname errors

2008-07-17 Thread Jesse Alama
Using XeTeX and ConTeXt MkII with the TeX Live 2008 developer snapshot (as of a few days ago), I run into a bunch of invalid fontname errors when compiling some documents: $ texmfstart texexec --xtx file.tex TeXExec | processing document 'file.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex

Re: [NTG-context] mkii and xetex with tl2008: invalid fontname errors

2008-07-17 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Jesse Alama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using XeTeX and ConTeXt MkII with the TeX Live 2008 developer snapshot (as of a few days ago), I run into a bunch of invalid fontname errors when compiling some documents: $ texmfstart texexec --xtx file.tex TeXExec

Re: [NTG-context] mkii and xetex with tl2008: invalid fontname errors

2008-07-17 Thread Jesse Alama
Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Jesse Alama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using XeTeX and ConTeXt MkII with the TeX Live 2008 developer snapshot (as of a few days ago), I run into a bunch of invalid fontname errors when compiling some documents

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and precise font sizes

2008-07-10 Thread Neiaglov Dmitry
] [GentiumBasic] \definefontsynonym[SerifItalic][GentiumBasicItalic] \definefontsynonym[SerifBold] [GentiumBasicBold] \definefontsynonym[SerifBoldItalic][GentiumBasicBoldItalic] \stoptypescript ... \stoptext Yes, thanks, works fine, but does it really use XeTeX? The wiki says: XeTeX

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and precise font sizes

2008-07-10 Thread Hans Hagen
XeTeX? The wiki says: XeTeX offers some nice features in terms of automatically finding related fonts in a family which would be really convenient to use. I really can't find docs on the difference between XeTeX and non-XeTeX font handling in ConTeXt. there is (and will be) no support

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and precise font sizes

2008-07-10 Thread Diego Depaoli
in the wiki's homepage. Yes, thanks, works fine, but does it really use XeTeX? The wiki says: XeTeX offers some nice features in terms of automatically finding related fonts in a family which would be really convenient to use. I really can't find docs on the difference between XeTeX and non-XeTeX

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and precise font sizes

2008-07-10 Thread Mojca Miklavec
, thanks, works fine, but does it really use XeTeX? The wiki says: XeTeX offers some nice features in terms of automatically finding related fonts in a family which would be really convenient to use. I really can't find docs on the difference between XeTeX and non-XeTeX font handling in ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and precise font sizes

2008-07-10 Thread Neiaglov Dmitry
, that clarifies a lot for me, thanks :) So \startypescript uses xetex after all! The most compact construction I got working was the following: \definetypeface [LiberationSans][ss][Xsans][Liberation Sans][default] [encoding=uc] ... \def\subsect{\setupbodyfont[LiberationSans, 18pt

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and precise font sizes

2008-07-10 Thread Hans Hagen
] \stoptypescript Cool, that clarifies a lot for me, thanks :) So \startypescript uses xetex after all! it's more the reverse ... typescripts are the interface and deep down it is translated to the right commands for pdftex, zetex or luatex Unfortunately, ConTeXt tends to compile this document

[NTG-context] XeTeX and precise font sizes

2008-07-09 Thread Neiaglov Dmitry
Hello there! I was googling around, but couldn't really figure out how to use OpenType fonts with ConTeXt and XeTeX with precise sizes in points. I am trying to create a subsection style with Gentium 24pt. I am creating a typeface like it's recommended in the documentation: \definetypeface

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and precise font sizes

2008-07-09 Thread Diego Depaoli
2008/7/10 Neiaglov Dmitry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello there! I was googling around, you mis-googled :-) http://www.google.com/cse?q=gentiumcx=016640200293943433883:w-6slqs1kjgcof=FORID:0sa=Special+Search OpenType fonts with ConTeXt and XeTeX with precise sizes in points. I am trying to create

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and precise font sizes

2008-07-09 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
with ConTeXt and XeTeX with precise sizes in points. I am trying to create a subsection style with Gentium 24pt. following code should be work. \starttypescript[serif][gentium-basic] \definefontsynonym[Serif] [GentiumBasic] \definefontsynonym[SerifItalic][GentiumBasicItalic

[NTG-context] Fwd: [XeTeX] a note from the XeTeX author

2008-07-04 Thread Martin Schröder
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jonathan Kew [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/7/3 Subject: [XeTeX] a note from the XeTeX author To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms [EMAIL PROTECTED] To the XeTeX user community: This note is to let you know that for personal reasons

[NTG-context] Problem with Xetex

2008-06-15 Thread cidadaum
(\enableregiem[utf8]: it says in the log file: possible problem with 8bit output. Xetex hangs on with: kpathsea mktextfm lmroman... The second installation has another problem with xetex: could not open config file dvipdfmx.cfg

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with Xetex

2008-06-15 Thread Hans Hagen
with 8bit output (\enableregiem[utf8]: it says in the log file: possible problem with 8bit output. Xetex hangs on with: kpathsea mktextfm lmroman... The second installation has another problem with xetex: could not open config file dvipdfmx.cfg maybe the first tree has an ancient xetex

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-10 Thread Hans Hagen
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: But at this stage of development, only pure OpenType fonts will be supported out of the box. For example: Traditional Arabic, which comes with XP, has OpenType tables but depends on Uniscribe instead of OpenType for, eg, making marks exceptions to the

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
10.5.3), but what I get after typesetting is the following attached PDF: all the characters are typeset with their isolated form. However typestting the same text with XeConTeXt or XeTeX gives a nice result. So my question is, what should I add or subtract from the font features parameters to get

[NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Otared Kavian
is the following attached PDF: all the characters are typeset with their isolated form. However typestting the same text with XeConTeXt or XeTeX gives a nice result. So my question is, what should I add or subtract from the font features parameters to get a correct result? test-lua.pdf

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Otared Kavian
on a Mac running Mac OS X 10.5.3, I am not sure whether the links there allows me to install such fonts. Also I think that the issue is related to LuaTeX, or at least to my installation of LuaTeX…, and so probably the issue is not related to the font, since XeTeX and XeConTeXt both typeset

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Khaled Hosny
(working on Mac OS X 10.5.3), but what I get after typesetting is the following attached PDF: all the characters are typeset with their isolated form. However typestting the same text with XeConTeXt or XeTeX gives a nice result. May be the font is built with AAT tables and not OpenType, XeTeX

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
have and LuaTeX can find is Nadeem (working on Mac OS X 10.5.3), but what I get after typesetting is the following attached PDF: all the characters are typeset with their isolated form. However typestting the same text with XeConTeXt or XeTeX gives a nice result. May be the font is built

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
and LuaTeX can find is Nadeem (working on Mac OS X 10.5.3), but what I get after typesetting is the following attached PDF: all the characters are typeset with their isolated form. However typestting the same text with XeConTeXt or XeTeX gives a nice result. Can you privately me that font Nadeem

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Burak Emir
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Otared Kavian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Wolfgang, Thank you for your attention. However this is exactly what I did. \font\TradArabic = Nadeem*testat 18pt Hi Otared, I also tried with Nadeem, and I had exactly the same problem. Can you try

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Otared Kavian
On 9 juin 08, at 17:09, Burak Emir wrote: […] Hi Otared, I also tried with Nadeem, and I had exactly the same problem. Hi Burak, Thank you for testing that font. As a matter of fact I am not especially attracted to that font, but for some reason, unknwon to me, it is the only one (in

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Otared Kavian
On 9 juin 08, at 18:07, Hans Hagen wrote: Otared Kavian wrote: Indeed… it so simple! But how should one let LuaTeX know about those fonts? set the OSFONTDIR environment variable Many thanks Hans: indeed that's what I did export OSFONTDIR=Library/Fonts export

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Burak Emir
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Otared Kavian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9 juin 08, at 18:07, Hans Hagen wrote: Otared Kavian wrote: Indeed… it so simple! But how should one let LuaTeX know about those fonts? set the OSFONTDIR environment variable Many thanks Hans: indeed that's

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Otared Kavian wrote: On 9 juin 08, at 18:07, Hans Hagen wrote: Otared Kavian wrote: Indeed… it so simple! But how should one let LuaTeX know about those fonts? set the OSFONTDIR environment variable Many thanks Hans: indeed that's what I did

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Otared Kavian
On 9 juin 08, at 18:53, Mojca Miklavec wrote: […] You need to use export OSFONTDIR=/Library/Fonts;/System/Library/Fonts;~/Library/ Fonts Not sure if LuaTeX handles the tilde; in case it doesn't, put the whole path there. Mojca Hi Mojca and all, As a matter of fact here is what I

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Hans Hagen
Otared Kavian wrote: On 9 juin 08, at 18:53, Mojca Miklavec wrote: […] You need to use export OSFONTDIR=/Library/Fonts;/System/Library/Fonts;~/Library/ Fonts Not sure if LuaTeX handles the tilde; in case it doesn't, put the whole path there. Mojca Hi Mojca and all, As a

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Oliver Buerschaper
You need to use export OSFONTDIR=/Library/Fonts;/System/Library/Fonts;~/Library/ Fonts Actually, I think the order of the directories should be slightly different ... if LuaTeX wants to blend in nicely with the Mac file system domains it should search for the fonts in the following

Re: [NTG-context] the error of xetex

2008-06-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Yanli Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Hi, What problem do you have with XeTeX, I can see nothing in your log file. I got some warnnings when compiling it today, but i still got a pdf output. Moreover, i cannot get a pdf output when i add

Re: [NTG-context] the error of xetex

2008-06-03 Thread Yanli Li
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Hi, What problem do you have with XeTeX, I can see nothing in your log file. Greetings Wolfgang I got some warnnings when compiling it today, but i still got a pdf output. Moreover, i cannot get a pdf output when i add some PPCHTEX statements to it. I

Re: [NTG-context] the error of xetex

2008-06-03 Thread Yanli Li
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Yanli Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Hi, What problem do you have with XeTeX, I can see nothing in your log file. I got some warnnings when compiling it today, but i still got a pdf output

Re: [NTG-context] the error of xetex

2008-06-03 Thread Yanli Li
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Yanli Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Hi, What problem do you have with XeTeX, I can see nothing in your log file. I got some warnnings when compiling it today, but i still got a pdf output

Re: [NTG-context] the error of xetex

2008-06-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Yanli Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [log file] the chemical.tex file: \starttext \chapter{Chemical} \usemodules[pictex,chemic] What is the result if you try it without PiCTeX. \usemodule[chemic] \startchemical\chemical[SIX,B,B]\stopchemical

Re: [NTG-context] the error of xetex

2008-06-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Yanli Li wrote: my context minimals contain: XeTeX 3.1415926-2.2-0.998.1 (Web2C 7.5.6) pdfTeX 3.141592-1.40.7-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.6) LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.25.3-2008041812 i think my context minimals version is 2008.5.31 why does it produce the warnings

Re: [NTG-context] the error of xetex

2008-06-03 Thread Yanli Li
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Hi, Put the attached two map files in your TeX directory, the path for them is $TEXMF/fonts/map/dvipdfm/lm, I think there are no map files in this directory and XeTeX loads the map files for dvips instead. Wolfgang On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Yanli Li [EMAIL

Re: [NTG-context] the error of xetex

2008-06-03 Thread Peter Münster
On Tue, Jun 03 2008, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Because nobody* submitted the 64-bit linux binaries to the repository yet. Neither for FreeBSD and Sun, but there have been less requests for the latter. linux, mac windows should be OK. Done for linux-64 (xetex-0.999.0). Cheers, Peter -- http

[NTG-context] the error of xetex

2008-06-02 Thread Yanli Li
TeXExec | processing document 'hello' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file hello.top TeXExec | using randomseed 598 TeXExec | tex engine: xetex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2

Re: [NTG-context] Odd Behavior in pdftex/xetex

2008-05-28 Thread Michael . Urban
text and non text and such If he use \retype the table works. Thanks; and so does \asciistr I cannot find documentation on \retype, \asciistr, nor \simplifytype ; in which situations should these be used? ___

Re: [NTG-context] Odd Behavior in pdftex/xetex

2008-05-28 Thread Hans Hagen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: text and non text and such If he use \retype the table works. Thanks; and so does \asciistr I cannot find documentation on \retype, \asciistr, nor \simplifytype ; in which situations should these be used? as last resort

[NTG-context] XeTeX in ConTeXt

2008-05-24 Thread Charles Doherty
Dear all, I have tried to upgrade ConTeXt using sudo ctxtools --updatecontext followed by sudo texmfstart texexec --make en and sudo texmfstart texexec --make --xetex en Following the upgrade a normal ConTeXt document runs perfectly but when I run XeConTeXt through TeXShop I get the readout

Re: [NTG-context] Odd Behavior in pdftex/xetex

2008-05-24 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
\eTH{}\bTH Value\eTH{}\eTR \bTR \bTD \type{} 12\eTD{}\bTD 3\eTD{}\eTR \bTR \bTD 12--16\eTD{}\bTD 2\eTD{}\eTR \bTR \bTD \type{}16\eTD{}\bTD 1\eTD{}\eTR \eTABLE \input knuth \stoptext In the case of pdfTeX and XeTeX, the table is given a width equal to the textwidth

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX in ConTeXt

2008-05-24 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Charles Doherty wrote: Dear all, I have tried to upgrade ConTeXt using sudo ctxtools --updatecontext followed by sudo texmfstart texexec --make en and sudo texmfstart texexec --make --xetex en Following the upgrade a normal ConTeXt document runs

[NTG-context] Odd Behavior in pdftex/xetex

2008-05-23 Thread Michael . Urban
\bTD \type{}16\eTD{}\bTD 1\eTD{}\eTR \eTABLE \input knuth \stoptext In the case of pdfTeX and XeTeX, the table is given a width equal to the textwidth; in the caes of LuaTeX, it is typeset correctly with natural widths. When \setupcolors is removed, both pdfTeX and XeTeX also produce the correct

Re: [NTG-context] Odd Behavior in pdftex/xetex

2008-05-23 Thread Hans Hagen
12--16\eTD{}\bTD 2\eTD{}\eTR \bTR \bTD \type{}16\eTD{}\bTD 1\eTD{}\eTR \eTABLE \input knuth \stoptext In the case of pdfTeX and XeTeX, the table is given a width equal to the textwidth; in the caes of LuaTeX, it is typeset correctly with natural widths. When \setupcolors is removed

Re: [NTG-context] Uppercase ssharp with XeTeX and LuaTeX

2008-05-15 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Arthur Reutenauer wrote: is there a solution for ssharp with XeTeX and LuaTeX, I have a word with a ß in it which I convert into uppercase letters and the ß remains a lowercase characters. The problem is that there is no uccode for ß (U+00DF) in char-def.lua and that Mark IV has

Re: [NTG-context] Uppercase ssharp with XeTeX and LuaTeX

2008-05-15 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Arthur Reutenauer wrote: is there a solution for ssharp with XeTeX and LuaTeX, I have a word with a ß in it which I convert into uppercase letters and the ß remains a lowercase characters. The problem is that there is no uccode for ß (U+00DF) in char-def.lua

Re: [NTG-context] Uppercase ssharp with XeTeX and LuaTeX

2008-05-13 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Arthur Reutenauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there a solution for ssharp with XeTeX and LuaTeX, I have a word with a ß in it which I convert into uppercase letters and the ß remains a lowercase characters. The problem is that there is no uccode for ß

Re: [NTG-context] Uppercase ssharp with XeTeX and LuaTeX

2008-05-13 Thread Hans Hagen
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Arthur Reutenauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there a solution for ssharp with XeTeX and LuaTeX, I have a word with a ß in it which I convert into uppercase letters and the ß remains a lowercase characters. The problem

Re: [NTG-context] Uppercase ssharp with XeTeX and LuaTeX

2008-05-13 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Arthur Reutenauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there a solution for ssharp with XeTeX and LuaTeX, I have a word with a ß in it which I convert into uppercase

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