Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] TeTeX in TeX Live 2015 broken on Mac

2015-04-24 Thread Philip Taylor
Will Robertson wrote: On 24 Apr 2015, at 1:51 am, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: Even shorter: \ifnum\XeTeXcountvariations\font0\fi\bye :) Phew! Glad to hear that (for once) it’s not fontspec that is broken! Well, I have now worked through my entire collection of.ttc fonts,

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] TeTeX in TeX Live 2015 broken on Mac

2015-04-24 Thread Philip Taylor
Jonathan Kew wrote: \ifnum\XeTeXcountvariations\font0\fi\bye abcd \end no output is produced. I would expect abcd to be typeset. Why would you expect that? \bye will end the job, before you get to abcd. Because \XeTeXcountvariations should return 0 for XeTeX's default font, should it

[XeTeX] Placement of tanwin for indefinite accusatives in Arabic, arabxetex

2015-04-24 Thread Nathan Camillo Sidoli
I have a question about the placement of tanwin for indefinite accusatives in arabxetex. (And a related question for Amiri font.) My understanding in that the preferred style in Arabic is that the tanwin should be placed over the final consonant, even if there is a final alif. This was the

Re: [XeTeX] Media9 buttons in RTL text

2015-04-24 Thread David Carlisle
On 24 April 2015 at 18:35, Karljurgen Feuerherm kfeuerh...@wlu.ca wrote: I tried all kinds of variations (including \texthebrew{} in the button labels), but not this! I guess the \textenglish{} wrappers keep things tidy, somehow? Thanks so much. K Yes the problem is that the

Re: [XeTeX] Media9 buttons in RTL text

2015-04-24 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Dear Arthur, Thanks for the note! I do realize the usual MWE requirement, and I did not provide one at first because really what I was trying to find out was not related to a specific example, but more the matter of whether Luabidi was likely to be upgraded so as to be as fully functional as

Re: [XeTeX] Media9 buttons in RTL text

2015-04-24 Thread David Carlisle
This runs without error and I think gives the intended layout, although I can not read the text, sorry. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{libertine,media9,polyglossia} \setdefaultlanguage[variant=british]{english} \setotherlanguage[]{hebrew} \begin{document} \marginpar{\includemedia[

[XeTeX] Media9 buttons in RTL text

2015-04-24 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Attempting to rephrase a problem in a more straightforward manne, going back to the root…. Consider the MWE below. This compiles fine and produces the expected output. However, uncommenting lines 16 and 32 in order to get the buttons/words in proper RTL order for Hebrew gives the following

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] TeTeX in TeX Live 2015 broken on Mac

2015-04-24 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 11:55:41AM +0100, Philip Taylor wrote: Will Robertson wrote: On 24 Apr 2015, at 1:51 am, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: Even shorter: \ifnum\XeTeXcountvariations\font0\fi\bye :) Phew! Glad to hear that (for once) it’s not fontspec that is

Re: [XeTeX] Error using Kohinoor Devanagari font

2015-04-24 Thread Deepak Jois
On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 10:03 PM, Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wag...@gmail.com wrote: tests of Mac fonts were done by other people and reported on the tex-live list. It runed out that there are problems with ITF Devanagari and Kohinoor Devanagari. The bad news is that we cannot help you right now but

Re: [XeTeX] Error using Kohinoor Devanagari font

2015-04-24 Thread Zdenek Wagner
Hi Deepak, tests of Mac fonts were done by other people and reported on the tex-live list. It runed out that there are problems with ITF Devanagari and Kohinoor Devanagari. The bad news is that we cannot help you right now but the good news is that they will fix the bugs for TeX Live 2015.

Re: [XeTeX] Media9 buttons in RTL text

2015-04-24 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
I tried all kinds of variations (including \texthebrew{} in the button labels), but not this! I guess the \textenglish{} wrappers keep things tidy, somehow? Thanks so much. K From: David Carlisle d.p.carli...@gmail.commailto:d.p.carli...@gmail.com Reply-To: xetex@tug.orgmailto:xetex@tug.org

Re: [XeTeX] Media9 buttons in RTL text

2015-04-24 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Thanks for this explanation. When I was using the kludge solution and it broke last October, Vafa suggested that this problem might be corrected by TL2015 but I've been struggling to figure out how to follow up on that. Now I don't have to! I had been monitoring the back-and-forth with

Re: [XeTeX] Media9 buttons in RTL text

2015-04-24 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
Dear Karljürgen, I am glad that you were able to find a solution to your problem with the help of David. I did note your plea for help (already back in October), and of course your private email to me two days ago, but while I spent many hours trying to figure out what you were trying

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] TeTeX in TeX Live 2015 broken on Mac

2015-04-24 Thread Bruno Le Floch
On 4/24/15, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 11:55:41AM +0100, Philip Taylor wrote: Will Robertson wrote: On 24 Apr 2015, at 1:51 am, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: Even shorter: \ifnum\XeTeXcountvariations\font0\fi\bye :) Phew! Glad to