[XeTeX] Greek XeLaTeX

2010-10-11 Thread Alexandros Gotsis
Dear friends, I am trying to "greekify" XeLaTex in order to make it easier for greek writers to use. I have translated almost all the commands (e.g., instead of \begin{document} I can use \αρχή{κειμένου}, etc.) that I could think of and made new article, book etc. classes with the greek command

Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem for dialogue poetry

2010-10-11 Thread Gareth Hughes
Paul Isambert wrote: > Ok, the following works on your file, but I don't know how robust it is: > > %%% > > \newcount\LineNumber \newcount\templinenumber > \newdimen\linenumberskip \linenumberskip=6em > \chardef\linestep=2 > \def\poemlinenumber{% > \advance\LineNumber1 > \templinenumber=\Line

Re: [XeTeX] Primes and unicode-math.

2010-10-11 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 11:43:29PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 04:19:25PM -0400, Cole Leahy wrote: > > Also, as I feared would happen, the kerning on exponents, commas, and > > the like isn't ideal. Is there a way to get around this that's more > > efficient > > than tweak

Re: [XeTeX] Primes and unicode-math.

2010-10-11 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:23:42PM +0300, Stratos Paschos wrote: > On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Cole Leahy wrote: > > This is more or less a continuation of the thread > > at http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2010-October/018741.html. Unfortunately, I > > don't know how to include this message i

Re: [XeTeX] Primes and unicode-math.

2010-10-11 Thread Stratos Paschos
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Cole Leahy wrote: > This is more or less a continuation of the thread > at http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2010-October/018741.html. Unfortunately, I > don't know how to include this message in that thread, since I don't > actually receive email from this list. Ple

Re: [XeTeX] wrong kerning and slow processing with xelatex in texlive 2010

2010-10-11 Thread Vladimir Lomov
Hi Vadim. ** Vadim Radionov [2010-10-11 19:31:50 +0400]: > Hi, Vladimir, > > My question was not about kerning in this commercial font. It was > about 2 instances of xetex that gave 2 different result. And i asked > how i can figure out what's wrong with one of them (texlive 2010). Ok. you could

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-11 Thread David Perry
Thanks to Gareth and everybody who replied; I've got it working now. David On 10/11/2010 9:30 AM, Gareth Hughes wrote: Dear David, The errors you have been getting are font-not-found errors. I've never been entirely sure which names fontspec likes for these derived faces. However, the followin

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-11 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
David Perry wrote: On 10/11/2010 9:38 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: You can use ofinfo, the reported full name is your best choice, then the PostScript name. I'm not familiar with ofinfo; what is this? Probably a typo (or dead key) for "otfinfo". Philip Taylor

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-11 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:37:53AM -0400, David Perry wrote: > > > On 10/11/2010 9:38 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > >You can use ofinfo, the reported full name is your best choice, then the > >PostScript name. > I'm not familiar with ofinfo; what is this? Google turns up nothing > relevant. Sorry,

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-11 Thread Peter Baker
On 10/11/10 11:37 AM, David Perry wrote: On 10/11/2010 9:38 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: You can use ofinfo, the reported full name is your best choice, then the PostScript name. I'm not familiar with ofinfo; what is this? Google turns up nothing relevant. Thanks - David That's otfinfo I thi

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-11 Thread David Perry
On 10/11/2010 9:38 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: You can use ofinfo, the reported full name is your best choice, then the PostScript name. I'm not familiar with ofinfo; what is this? Google turns up nothing relevant. Thanks - David -- Subscripti

Re: [XeTeX] wrong kerning and slow processing with xelatex in texlive 2010

2010-10-11 Thread Vadim Radionov
Hi, Vladimir, My question was not about kerning in this commercial font. It was about 2 instances of xetex that gave 2 different result. And i asked how i can figure out what's wrong with one of them (texlive 2010). >> also gives good kerning with xetex > I don't understand here. Kerning is alway

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-11 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 11 Oct 2010, at 15:06, Gareth Hughes wrote: > Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote: >> Oh, now I see what you're trying to do ... and what you've got here, >> Gareth, works for me. You can also use: >> >> \setmainfont[ItalicFont={BergamoStd-Italic}, >> BoldFont={BergamoStd-Bold}, >> BoldItalicFont={Berga

Re: [XeTeX] wrong kerning and slow processing with xelatex in texlive 2010

2010-10-11 Thread Vladimir Lomov
Hi Vadim. ** Vadim Radionov [2010-10-11 03:39:58 +0400]: >> Do Cyrillic small capital letters exist? I would have thought they're >> typical Latin... > > Only few cyrillic letter have different capital shapes, probably > that's why they are no so popular. > Anyway, many perfect modern fonts have

[XeTeX] New environment fails in float

2010-10-11 Thread Gareth Hughes
I'm having problems with an environment definition. Using the xparse and etoolbox packages, I have created the environment syriacpoem in my .sty file. It is defined as %% \DeclareDocumentEnvironment{syriacpoem}{so}{% \ifbool{...@kashpoem}{\begin{syrjust}}{}% \begin{syriac}% \ifstre

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-11 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 03:06:26PM +0100, Gareth Hughes wrote: > Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote: > > Oh, now I see what you're trying to do ... and what you've got here, > > Gareth, works for me. You can also use: > > > > \setmainfont[ItalicFont={BergamoStd-Italic}, > > BoldFont={BergamoStd-Bold}, > >

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-11 Thread Gareth Hughes
Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote: > Oh, now I see what you're trying to do ... and what you've got here, > Gareth, works for me. You can also use: > > \setmainfont[ItalicFont={BergamoStd-Italic}, > BoldFont={BergamoStd-Bold}, > BoldItalicFont={BergamoStd-BoldItalic}]{Cardo} Yes, it looks like fontspec a

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-11 Thread Fr. Michael Gilmary
Gareth Hughes wrote: Dear David, The errors you have been getting are font-not-found errors. I've never been entirely sure which names fontspec likes for these derived faces. However, the following works for me: \setmainfont[ItalicFont={Bergamo Std Italic}, BoldFont={Bergamo Std Bold}, BoldItal

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-11 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 02:30:43PM +0100, Gareth Hughes wrote: > Dear David, > > The errors you have been getting are font-not-found errors. I've never > been entirely sure which names fontspec likes for these derived faces. You can use ofinfo, the reported full name is your best choice, then the

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-11 Thread Gareth Hughes
Dear David, The errors you have been getting are font-not-found errors. I've never been entirely sure which names fontspec likes for these derived faces. However, the following works for me: \setmainfont[ItalicFont={Bergamo Std Italic}, BoldFont={Bergamo Std Bold}, BoldItalicFont={Bergamo Std Bol

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-11 Thread Fr. Michael Gilmary
David Perry wrote: Yes, I just realized that my example from the fontspec manual was not exactly parallel to the situation I have. However, doing it as Gareth suggests generates all sorts of nasty error messages. I just tried specifying the bold etc. by font file names; no errors, but no bo

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-11 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 11.10.2010 um 05:10 schrieb Alan Munn: Theoretically either argument could have any other kind of unit. Right! It works well with mm or a mixture of units. TeX points are a reliable fall-back default. -- Greetings Pete One cannot live by television, video games, top ten CDs, and du