[XeTeX] OT features

2011-02-14 Thread Georg A. Duffner
For my font project (see www.georgduffner.at/ebgaramond) i have been playing around with some opentype features. It seems, that contextual features involving the character space don’t work as expected. I wanted to implement a feature for latin texts that replaces u at the beginning of a word

[XeTeX] xeindex bug. index entry mangles processing of section and chapter environments.

2011-02-14 Thread Michael Joyner
Good afternoon all, I having gotten much further along with the xeindexing, but have run into a new problem. I have created and inserted below a test document showing an un-numbered section getting mangled. What I really find strange is that the text being mangled is a substring of the text

[XeTeX] Multi directional paragraphs

2011-02-14 Thread Arash Zeini
Hello, I am using the verse environment (\begin{verse}) in the memoir class to format quotations from manuscripts. I have one LTR section followed by a RTL section. I have been using verse as opposed to quote or quotation because of its hanging indent. While the \setRTL and \setLTR commands of

Re: [XeTeX] xeindex bug. index entry mangles processing of section and chapter environments.

2011-02-14 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 15/02/2011 00:00, Michael Joyner a écrit : Good afternoon all, I having gotten much further along with the xeindexing, but have run into a new problem. I have created and inserted below a test document showing an un-numbered section getting mangled. What I really find strange is that

Re: [XeTeX] OT features

2011-02-14 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:24:14PM +0100, Georg A. Duffner wrote: For my font project (see www.georgduffner.at/ebgaramond) i have been playing around with some opentype features. It seems, that contextual features involving the character space don’t work as expected. AFAIK, XeTeX processes

Re: [XeTeX] Multi directional paragraphs

2011-02-14 Thread Vafa Khalighi
minimal example? -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] OT features

2011-02-14 Thread David J. Perry
I had the exact same problem last weekend. I constructed an OT feature to replace a long s with a regular s if followed by a comma, period, space, etc. The longs-space combination did not work. I am not a low-level TeX programming kind of guy, but I had learned a bit somewhere about TeX's

Re: [XeTeX] Proper way to set up OT Features

2011-02-14 Thread David J. Perry
Will, Thanks for the reply. Having spent the larger part of Sunday testing on some additional machines, I can report the following. All tests were conducted using the same exact font file (a PS-flavor OTF). MiKTeX is kept updated. If anybody has an idea about why the font works in XeLaTeX

Re: [XeTeX] Proper way to set up OT Features

2011-02-14 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 15 Feb 2011, at 03:49, David J. Perry wrote: Will, Thanks for the reply. Having spent the larger part of Sunday testing on some additional machines, I can report the following. All tests were conducted using the same exact font file (a PS-flavor OTF). MiKTeX is kept updated. If