Re: [XeTeX] Space characters and whitespace

2011-03-03 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Tobias Schoel wrote: So would it be wise to make for example u2009 (narrow space) and u202f (narrow no break space) active and map it to {\,} or {\nolinebreak\,} respectively? IMVHO, this should be as unnecessary (and insane) as making u00E9 (é) active and mapping it to {\'e}. Surely if

Re: [XeTeX] Space characters and whitespace

2011-03-03 Thread mskala
On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: if XeTeX is predicated on the use of Unicode, it should understand the semantics of Unicode code points such as u2009 and u202F and just do the right thing without having to hack things through the use of active characters. There are

Re: [XeTeX] Space characters and whitespace

2011-03-03 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: if XeTeX is predicated on the use of Unicode, it should understand the semantics of Unicode code points such as u2009 and u202F and just do the right thing without having to hack things through the use

Re: [XeTeX] [texhax] Throughput

2011-03-03 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Peter Davis wrote: However, running one test of 34,500 pages took 10 hours(!) to compile with XeLaTeX. This was on a 3GHz/4Gb Windows 7 Pro machine, using the XeTeX from MiKTeX 2.9. I expected this job to complete in a matter of minutes, but it basically took 100 times longer than I

Re: [XeTeX] [texhax] Throughput

2011-03-03 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Peter Davis wrote: I expected this job to complete in a matter of minutes, but it basically took 100 times longer than I anticipated. The job uses perhaps a dozen PDFs via \includegraphics, but it uses the sames ones over and over again. It also uses \textpos to position blocks of text

Re: [XeTeX] [texhax] Throughput

2011-03-03 Thread Martin Schröder
2011/3/3 Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk: No, but as you have yourself suggested two possible causes, Please stop jumping to conclusions and switching to other mailing lists. Best Martin -- Subscriptions, Archive, and

Re: [XeTeX] [texhax] Throughput

2011-03-03 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Martin Schröder wrote: 2011/3/3 Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk: No, but as you have yourself suggested two possible causes, Please stop jumping to conclusions and switching to other mailing lists. Please explain what leads you to believe I have jumped to any

Re: [XeTeX] Space characters and whitespace

2011-03-03 Thread mskala
On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, enrico.grego...@univr.it wrote: \newunicodechar{2009}{\,\hspace{0pt}} \newunicodechar{202f}{\,} Of course it works. The main purpose of the package is indeed to use the real char. Actually those who don't know how to input it will never use the packages to

[XeTeX] charlint?

2011-03-03 Thread Dominik Wujastyk
I guess this isn't really the place for this query, but perhaps someone has had a similar problem. I'm using XeTeX and TeXWorks for academic work, like many of us. I cut-n-past bibliographical information from sites like copac.ac.uk and worldcat.org, into JabRef for use in my documents. What

Re: [XeTeX] charlint?

2011-03-03 Thread Gildas Hamel
* Dominik Wujastyk (wujas...@gmail.com) wrote: | bibliographical information from sites like copac.ac.uk and worldcat.org, into | JabRef for use in my documents.  What I'm finding, though, is that several of | these big online bibliographical databases have their records in

Re: [XeTeX] charlint?

2011-03-03 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Might this be of use, Dominik ? http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/Normalizer.html ** Phil. Dominik Wujastyk wrote: What I'd like, ideally, is a little filter to run on my bib files periodically to clean up any char+non-spacing-accent glyphs.

Re: [XeTeX] charlint?

2011-03-03 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 03.03.2011 um 18:34 schrieb Dominik Wujastyk: What I'd like, ideally, is a little filter to run on my bib files periodically to clean up any char+non-spacing-accent glyphs. Maybe UnicodeChecker (http://earthlingsoft.net) could help – via its services, so it's for interactive use. --

Re: [XeTeX] Space characters and whitespace

2011-03-03 Thread Tobias Schoel
Am 03.03.2011 14:38, schrieb msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca: On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: if XeTeX is predicated on the use of Unicode, it should understand the semantics of Unicode code points such as u2009 and u202F and just do the right thing without having to hack

[XeTeX] Throughput

2011-03-03 Thread Peter Davis
Hi, I'm testing some code I wrote to generate .tex files from XML files. These .tex files are then processed via XeLaTeX to produce PDF. The code seems to be working, in that I get a valid .tex file, which then compiles into a valid PDF. However, running one test of 34,500 pages took 10

Re: [XeTeX] Throughput

2011-03-03 Thread Peter Davis
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Peter Davis p...@pfdstudio.com wrote: Hi, I'm testing some code I wrote to generate .tex files from XML files. These .tex files are then processed via XeLaTeX to produce PDF. The code seems to be working, in that I get a valid .tex file, which then compiles

Re: [XeTeX] [texhax] Throughput

2011-03-03 Thread Ross Moore
Hi Phil, Sent from my iPad On 04/03/2011, at 3:12 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk wrote: Martin Schröder wrote: 2011/3/3 Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk: No, but as you have yourself suggested two possible causes, Please stop jumping to

Re: [XeTeX] [texhax] Throughput

2011-03-03 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Well, maybe : but why did he cite my message and not Peter's in that case ?! ** Phil. Ross Moore wrote: Martin Schröder wrote: 2011/3/3 Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk: No, but as you have yourself suggested two possible causes, Please stop jumping to conclusions

Re: [XeTeX] [texhax] Throughput

2011-03-03 Thread Ross Moore
Hi Phil, Sent from my iPad On 04/03/2011, at 6:56 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk wrote: Well, maybe : but why did he cite my message and not Peter's in that case ?! The original message was sent to texhax (without delay) and XeTeX (held for moderation), and you

Re: [XeTeX] charlint?

2011-03-03 Thread Dominik Wujastyk
Looks good. But wot is a Mac? On 3 March 2011 19:07, Peter Dyballa peter_dyba...@web.de wrote: Am 03.03.2011 um 18:34 schrieb Dominik Wujastyk: What I'd like, ideally, is a little filter to run on my bib files periodically to clean up any char+non-spacing-accent glyphs. Maybe

Re: [XeTeX] charlint?

2011-03-03 Thread Dominik Wujastyk
WOW! I had no idea it was in there. I'll to some tests and report back. Dominik On 3 March 2011 20:30, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 06:34:48PM +0100, Dominik Wujastyk wrote: I guess this isn't really the place for this query, but perhaps someone has

Re: [XeTeX] charlint?

2011-03-03 Thread Dominik Wujastyk
Very preliminary tests, using this: @book{Vāgbhaṭa:1939, author = {Vāgbhaṭa, and Gode, P. K. (Parshuram Krishna) and Kuṇṭe, Aṇṇā Moreśvara. and Navare, Kr̥ṣṇaśāstrī. and Parāḍakara, Hariśāstrī Sadāśiva.}, title= {Aṣṭāṅgahr̥dayam}, edition = {6th ed.}, address =

Re: [XeTeX] charlint?

2011-03-03 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Dominik Wujastyk wrote: Looks good. But wot is a Mac? Oh come on, Dominik, you're not that young or naïve : you know perfectly well it is what certain gentlemen of unusual persuasions would put on before entering a particular genre of bookshop in London's Soho ... ** Phil.

Re: [XeTeX] charlint?

2011-03-03 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 03.03.2011 um 21:21 schrieb Dominik Wujastyk: But wot is a Mac? A big and ugly iPad which is good for something. -- Greetings Pete Only useless documentation transcends the first two laws. – Arnold's Third Law of Documentation

Re: [XeTeX] charlint?

2011-03-03 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 3 Mar 2011, at 20:32, Dominik Wujastyk wrote: Very preliminary tests, using this: @book{Vāgbhaṭa:1939, author = {Vāgbhaṭa, and Gode, P. K. (Parshuram Krishna) and Kuṇṭe, Aṇṇā Moreśvara. and Navare, Kr̥ṣṇaśāstrī. and Parāḍakara, Hariśāstrī Sadāśiva.}, title=

Re: [XeTeX] charlint?

2011-03-03 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 03.03.2011 um 21:32 schrieb Dominik Wujastyk: show improvement, but the r-undercircle character (as in Kr̥ṣṇaśāstrī) results in a blank space. This character does not exist in composed form. You need to form it yourself. Best, using a font with COMBINING RING BELOW at U+0325.