[XeTeX] Diacritic marks in various fonts

2011-06-23 Thread nathan . sidoli
I'm having some issues with the dot diacritic under m and n, \d{m} and \d{n} or ? and ?, with italicized typeface in some fonts, particularly Junicode. Whenever I use Junicode or Times Translit, I get blank spaces for these terms, and a warning message such as the following: LaTeX Font

Re: [XeTeX] Loading fonts from a common server or http URL

2011-06-23 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:36:24 +0200 schrieb Tobias Schoel: In my opinion, this is the way of the future. It is ludicrous that we all have to create our own virtual CTAN mirrors. Far better to evolve a methodology that will, entirely transparently, use a local copy as first choice; fetch (via

Re: [XeTeX] Loading fonts from a common server or http URL

2011-06-23 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Matthew, I was not talking about implementing a full http-client. As Phil has pointed out the texlive code base is not the newest nor very modern. The whole world benefit from a complete rewrite, but that is another story. Things have come a

Re: [XeTeX] Diacritic marks in various fonts

2011-06-23 Thread Juan Acevedo
Nathan, There seems to be something wrong in the way you are loading the fonts (as shown by the OT1 complaint). Make sure you are using XeTeX and fontspec (to handle the fonts) if you want to use Opentype or TrueType fonts. Maybe your editor is trying to compile with a different engine behind

Re: [XeTeX] Loading fonts from a common server or http URL

2011-06-23 Thread mskala
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, Keith J. Schultz wrote: I was not talking about implementing a full http-client. I don't see how the system can reliably download files from http: URLs without being or using a full HTTP client. That's the point I was responding to. If your main point was something

Re: [XeTeX] Diacritic marks in various fonts

2011-06-23 Thread Nathan Sidoli
Thanks to everyone that responded. It does seem that the error message is unrelated (since I don't get it with the minimal example, below), however, the issue with Junicode (and Times Translit) persists even with this minimal example: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{fontspec}

Re: [XeTeX] Diacritic marks in various fonts

2011-06-23 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 23.06.2011 um 19:11 schrieb Peter Baker: I can't reproduce the problem, but I'm using the CVS version of Junicode. This could be true! Believe me that I could reproduce the problem (in a XeLaTeX file, with Unicode font and text encoding). I then switched from Junicode to other fonts.

Re: [XeTeX] Diacritic marks in various fonts

2011-06-23 Thread Barry MacKichan
I could sell you my abacus ... --Barry On Jun 23, 2011, at 12:44 PM, Peter Baker wrote: These computers have gotten too darn complicated, I say! Peter -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.:

Re: [XeTeX] Diacritic marks in various fonts

2011-06-23 Thread Mike Maxwell
On 6/23/2011 3:17 PM, Barry MacKichan wrote: I could sell you my abacus ... Better, buy my slide rule! -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] Diacritic marks in various fonts

2011-06-23 Thread Peter Baker
On 6/23/11 9:38 PM, Mike Maxwell wrote: On 6/23/2011 3:17 PM, Barry MacKichan wrote: I could sell you my abacus ... Better, buy my slide rule! I don't know that I want to get quite that primitive, but sometimes I do miss my KayPro II. --