Re: [XeTeX] \emph{} exceeds TeX capacity with slides

2010-10-14 Thread Axel E. Retif
On 14 Oct, 2010, at 13:44, Pablo Rodríguez wrote: > for some strange reason using both XeTeX and LuaTeX the \emph{} command > contained in the sample document below exceeds TeX capacity: > > \documentclass[12pt]{slides} > \usepackage{fontspec} > \setsansfont{FreeSans} > \begin{document} > hi \e

Re: [XeTeX] Localized XeLaTeX: was Greek XeLaTeX

2010-10-14 Thread Andrew Moschou
I think you misunderstand what em and ex are. The ex is the height of a lowercase letter without ascenders or descenders (the height of "x") - This concept exists in Greek (but is not equal to the height of "ξ"). The em is traditionally the width of the upper case letter "M", but today, it is gener

Re: [XeTeX] Microtype Question: \DeclareMicrotypeAlias

2010-10-14 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 14.10.2010 um 13:01 schrieb Marc van Dongen: Any suggestions for solutions would be more than welcome. Is your version of XeTeX HZ-enabled? If it is, you can achieve even character protrusion – without the microtype package. It's specific for pdfTeX. See also here: http://xetex.tk/me

Re: [XeTeX] Localized XeLaTeX: was Greek XeLaTeX

2010-10-14 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 14.10.2010 um 12:39 schrieb Keith J. Schultz: the original thought was also for using localized units and such. Thinking of this again, ex and em cannot be translated into Greek! Who would now how wide a Latin x or m can span? And using ηξ and ημ instead would make much difference beca

[XeTeX] \emph{} exceeds TeX capacity with slides

2010-10-14 Thread Pablo Rodríguez
Hi there, for some strange reason using both XeTeX and LuaTeX the \emph{} command contained in the sample document below exceeds TeX capacity: \documentclass[12pt]{slides} \usepackage{fontspec} \setsansfont{FreeSans} \begin{document} hi \emph{hello} \end{document} This only happens when fonts

Re: [XeTeX] how to create and install xexmltex.fmt

2010-10-14 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
> Provided that you will set only Greek and English text. That's not the problem: the issue is with the hyphenation patterns that are loaded are format generation time; if William has installed the full set of languages he has dozens of them, in various writing systems. He should really use uni

Re: [XeTeX] how to create and install xexmltex.fmt

2010-10-14 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
> .tex UTF-8 Hyphenation patterns for Ancient Greek > (/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-grc > .tex > ! Nonletter. > l.37 α >1 ε1 η1 ι1 ο1 υ1 ω1 ϊ1 ϋ1 ἀ1 ἁ1 ἂ1 ἃ1 ἄ1 ἅ1 ἆ1 ... > > > (That makes 100 errors; please try again.) Initially only

Re: [XeTeX] how to create and install xexmltex.fmt

2010-10-14 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:48:54PM -0400, William Adams wrote: > .tex UTF-8 Hyphenation patterns for Ancient Greek > (/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-grc > .tex > ! Nonletter. > l.37 α >1 ε1 η1 ι1 ο1 υ1 ω1 ϊ1 ϋ1 ἀ1 ἁ1 ἂ1 ἃ1 ἄ1 ἅ1 ἆ1 ... This is

Re: [XeTeX] how to create and install xexmltex.fmt

2010-10-14 Thread William Adams
On Oct 14, 2010, at 11:34 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote: > FMT file is in /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-var/web2c/xetex. Because XeTeX > based. > > Best is to edit fmtutil.cnf > (/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-var/web2c/fmtutil.cnf). Then you can use > fmtutil(-sys) to create FMT files. That was the

Re: [XeTeX] how to create and install xexmltex.fmt

2010-10-14 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 14.10.2010 um 13:48 schrieb William Adams: (but still need to understand where I put the resulting .fmt file and make it active) FMT file is in /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-var/web2c/xetex. Because XeTeX based. Best is to edit fmtutil.cnf (/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-var/web2c/ fm

Re: [XeTeX] Localized XeLaTeX: was Greek XeLaTeX

2010-10-14 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
> I'm really curious: how do Greek Math and Physics textbooks write the > units? And how are they written in everyday's life? What's written on They use the international symbols! > termometers for "degrees Celsius"? How would someone write 3 m, 4 km Sometimes they write C and some times Κε

Re: [XeTeX] Localized XeLaTeX: was Greek XeLaTeX

2010-10-14 Thread Mojca Miklavec
2010/10/14 Ulrike Fischer wrote: > > I don't have a context currently to try, but what would happen if > you use it e.g. this way: > > \usemodule[translate] > \translateinput[im][mm] > > \enableinputtranslation > > \starttext\tt > \scratchdimen=2mm 2mm: \the\scratchdimen\crlf > \scratchdimen=1im 1i

Re: [XeTeX] how to create and install xexmltex.fmt

2010-10-14 Thread Herbert Schulz
On Oct 14, 2010, at 6:48 AM, William Adams wrote: > ... > I believe I managed to make the .fmt file using the command: > > xetex -ini \&xelatex xmltex > ... Howdy, I think you need to use xetex -ini \&xelatex '*xmltex' to turn on the extended mode. Good Luck, Herb Schulz (herbs at wideopen

Re: [XeTeX] polyglossia/bidi -- footnote rule alignment

2010-10-14 Thread Gareth Hughes
Kamal Abdali wrote: > I'm using the package polyglossia to typeset documents in Urdu, a > right-to-left language. Polyglossia uses the bidi package whose > documentation implies that the footnote rule is right-aligned when the > footnote is in the middle of some right-to-left text. But the footnote

Re: [XeTeX] Localized XeLaTeX: was Greek XeLaTeX

2010-10-14 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:28:16 +0200 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: > Wolfgang Schuster has just posted an example to dev-cont...@ntg.nl: > > \usemodule[translate] > \translateinput[μμ][mm] > > \enableinputtranslation > > \starttext\tt > \scratchdimen=2mm 2mm: \the\scratchdimen\crlf > \scratchdimen=1μμ

Re: [XeTeX] how to create and install xexmltex.fmt

2010-10-14 Thread William Adams
On Oct 13, 2010, at 12:24 PM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: > By xexmltex, I assume you mean David Carlisle's xmltex format built > over XeTeX? Correct. > I have never used it, but I don't think you need it: if I > simply run xelatex on the file containing > > \def\xmlfile{manual.xml} >

Re: [XeTeX] Localized XeLaTeX: was Greek XeLaTeX

2010-10-14 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:39, Keith J. Schultz wrote: > > Am 13.10.2010 um 19:27 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: > >> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:57, Keith J. Schultz wrote: >>> >>>        If Yes, then the question would be how easy would it be to modify >>> Xe(La)TeX >>>        to be localizable. >> [sni

Re: [XeTeX] Localized XeLaTeX: was Greek XeLaTeX

2010-10-14 Thread Tobias Schoel
Hi, having seen the examples for \section in different scripts I am more than respectful for people, whose mother tongue is written in a script other than latin (greek-cyrillic). (I myself have only lived in the "latin" world plus half a year in China.): I couldn't effeciently read any markup

[XeTeX] Microtype Question: \DeclareMicrotypeAlias

2010-10-14 Thread Marc van Dongen
Dear all, I'd be much obliged if somebody could tell me how to configure microtype in combination with a non-standard font. Currently, I'm trying something along the following lines, but as far as I can see microtype still cannot find its protrusion list.

Re: [XeTeX] Localized XeLaTeX: was Greek XeLaTeX

2010-10-14 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 14.10.2010 um 12:39 schrieb Keith J. Schultz: This would be a good idea, but the original thought was also for using localized units and such. I don't think there are so many "localised" units at this size (presumingly they start around 25 mm and reach a few km [Russian

Re: [XeTeX] Localized XeLaTeX: was Greek XeLaTeX

2010-10-14 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Am 13.10.2010 um 19:27 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:57, Keith J. Schultz wrote: >> >>If Yes, then the question would be how easy would it be to modify >> Xe(La)TeX >>to be localizable. > [snip, snip > ] > But of course you can always do simply >\let\