Re: [XeTeX] extra space after single Hebrew word

2011-09-23 Thread VAFA KHALIGHI
This is clearly caused by \eq@if macro in bidi.sty. It is a bug. There supposed to be %s after \let#1#3 and \let#2#3. Sorry for this. I upload a newer version today to CTAN. On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Gildas Hamel wrote: > Dear Xe(La)TeXers, > I get a space after the Hebrew (or Arabic) wor

Re: [XeTeX] Compatibility issues with ednotes and pstricks or TikZ

2011-09-23 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Mathew, I think you are being a bit unfair towards Vafa! LaTeX, et al are highly complex. The advent of unicode has not made things easier. The problem is not that bidi or the other package is "faulty", but in the way it is done, so that when then two are used together the result is not what

[XeTeX] extra space after single Hebrew word

2011-09-23 Thread Gildas Hamel
Dear Xe(La)TeXers, I get a space after the Hebrew (or Arabic) word and would like to get rid of it. Any suggestion appreciated. --Gildas % \documentclass{memoir} \usepackage{fontspec} \usepackage{xkeyval} \usepackage{polyglossia} \setdefaultlanguage{en

Re: [XeTeX] Compatibility issues with ednotes and pstricks or TikZ

2011-09-23 Thread VAFA KHALIGHI
> > Knowing that your attitude is that compatibility is everybody else's > job and not yours, I sure wouldn't have been quick to reply to you if I > were one of those package maintainers. > There are too many packages on CTAN, I do not know their number but let say there are one thousands of them

Re: [XeTeX] Compatibility issues with ednotes and pstricks or TikZ

2011-09-23 Thread mskala
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, VAFA KHALIGHI wrote: > When I started as the maintainer of bidi, I contacted some of the > package/class authors unfortunately no one even bothered to reply back (at > least saying, no I do not have time or I do not know how to do it) and > indeed that is why bidi itself, suppo

Re: [XeTeX] Shadow with Xelatex

2011-09-23 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 23.09.2011 um 18:32 schrieb Jean-Louis Garcin: > And the same list of commands when I typesset with latex instead of xelatex > is succesfull. PSTricks are written for the pdfTeX engine. XeTeX uses a different engine which supports some of the PSTricks. You could try LuaTeX... You could al

[XeTeX] Shadow with Xelatex

2011-09-23 Thread Jean-Louis Garcin
Hello, I work with Texshop on a mac (with SnwoLeopard). When I typeset with Xelatex and the macro \psshadow of the package pst-3d doesn't work. The list of commands \psset{Tshadowcolor=red,Tshadowangle=60,Tshadowsize=3.5} {\Huge\psshadow{SHADOW}\\[20pt]} don't draw the shadow

Re: [XeTeX] Odd and confusing diagnostics during XeTeX run

2011-09-23 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Jonathan Kew wrote: > Phil, > > Put the font name in quotes. That will be taken as a hint that it should try > for an installed font by that name *before* asking kpathsearch to try and > find a TFM, rather than vice versa. > > JK OK, thank you. I think I once knew that, and then forgot it a

Re: [XeTeX] Odd and confusing diagnostics during XeTeX run

2011-09-23 Thread Jonathan Kew
Phil, Put the font name in quotes. That will be taken as a hint that it should try for an installed font by that name *before* asking kpathsearch to try and find a TFM, rather than vice versa. JK On 23 Sep 2011, at 16:48, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > Dear Colleagues -- I just kno

[XeTeX] Odd and confusing diagnostics during XeTeX run

2011-09-23 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Dear Colleagues -- I just knocked up this little six-line XeTeX source file in order to typeset some labels for my spice jars in "an appropriate font" : \parindent = 0 em \parskip = 6 ex \font \Hindi = Samarkan at 36 pt \Hindi CA's Curry Masala \end When I ran it, I saw so

Re: [XeTeX] PSTricks usage in XeLaTeX

2011-09-23 Thread VAFA KHALIGHI
You can naturally use pstricks in Xe(La)TeX however some packages like pst-text are not supported. On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Mahalakshmi wrote: > Hello Tex Experts > >Is there any option to use the PSTricks package in XeLaTeX. >If it is any option, please guide me how to use? > >

[XeTeX] PSTricks usage in XeLaTeX

2011-09-23 Thread Mahalakshmi
Hello Tex Experts Is there any option to use the PSTricks package in XeLaTeX. If it is any option, please guide me how to use? Thanks in advance Regards Ganesh -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/ma

Re: [XeTeX] Compatibility issues with ednotes and pstricks or TikZ

2011-09-23 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Vafa, I kind of figured as much. The only, I can do for you is to ask. Can anybody. please help him. I assume many problems is that the packages either do not support unicode of are not designed to work with RTL. I am sure if the packages are fixed other pro

Re: [XeTeX] Eastern Arabic numerals in math environment

2011-09-23 Thread Nathan Sidoli
Thanks, that works nicely. On 11/09/23 17:52, VAFA KHALIGHI wrote: Yes, you can. You can modify xepersian-mathsdigitspec to suit your needs. bidi has nothing to do with font. On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Nathan Sidoli mailto:nathan.sid...@utoronto.ca>> wrote: Is is possible to use

Re: [XeTeX] Eastern Arabic numerals in math environment

2011-09-23 Thread VAFA KHALIGHI
Yes, you can. You can modify xepersian-mathsdigitspec to suit your needs. bidi has nothing to do with font. On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Nathan Sidoli wrote: > Is is possible to use Eastern Arabic numerals inside a math environment, > say inside \frac{}{} (such as \frac{٥}{٢})? When I try thi

[XeTeX] Eastern Arabic numerals in math environment

2011-09-23 Thread Nathan Sidoli
Is is possible to use Eastern Arabic numerals inside a math environment, say inside \frac{}{} (such as \frac{٥}{٢})? When I try this with unicode input, I get no errors, but blank output. When I enter a RL environment within \frac, using bidi, I get errors. (This must have something to do with

Re: [XeTeX] Problem using bidi with hyperref and amsart

2011-09-23 Thread VAFA KHALIGHI
version 1.1.3 of bidi is now on dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/... It fixes this bug and should be in the next TeXLive update. On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:27 AM, VAFA KHALIGHI wrote: > This is a bug of bidi package however I do not think "claim" is a polite > word. I fix it today and upload the new

Re: [XeTeX] Compatibility issues with ednotes and pstricks or TikZ

2011-09-23 Thread VAFA KHALIGHI
> > Vafa, have you tried asking the authors of the packages that you > support(work around their short commings) > to support, bidi or RTL. They are most likely not aware of the problems, > because the designed their package > only of LTR. Maybe you, can gather a group around you that will modify

Re: [XeTeX] Compatibility issues with ednotes and pstricks or TikZ

2011-09-23 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Nathan, Vafa, TeX, LaTeX, Xe(La)TeX, Lua(La)Tex, etc come with a very steep learning curve. It was one of the reasons I stopped using LaTeX some 20 years ago. Also, back then the packages were not stable and conflicted with each other so if really ne