Re: [XeTeX] Controlling font embedding in PDF output

2018-11-15 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Perhaps it is easier to generate the PDF, then remove the embedded fonts? Wilfred On Friday, November 16, 2018, 6:07:43 AM GMT+9, Werner LEMBERG wrote: [Originally sent to the TeXLive mailing list, but this list is not really appropriate for this question.] Is there a simple

Re: [XeTeX] which TeX-based software

2018-05-01 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Following Mojca's explanation, I feel I should switch to ConTeXt :-)) Wilfred On Tuesday, May 1, 2018 3:43 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 26 April 2018 at 14:20, Carrs wrote: > Hi, > > a newbie question. I would like advice on which TeX-based software it

Re: [XeTeX] which TeX-based software

2018-04-29 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
What I was trying to explain was the following: even if the software supports UTF-8 / unicode, then that does not necessarily mean that it supports ("out of the box") all your typographical wishes and demands. The OP was referring to several complicated typesetting tasks. My advice is: do not

Re: [XeTeX] which TeX-based software

2018-04-27 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Allow me to contribute my two cents to the discussion. First, it is my experience, and I also always tell my students, the following: "if you have something you want to typeset with LaTeX, somebody else has wanted that a long time ago, and yet someone else will have written a package for it".

Re: [XeTeX] index not showing up as an entry in the table of contents

2018-04-25 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
I also tried to answer the original question, but since I could not find a proper solution I did not answer. Indeed, the problem has something to do with bidi, and perhaps also with multicol. If you change the order of the packages, there is an error from bidi about multicolumn environment.

Re: [XeTeX] The arcs package

2018-03-17 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
I don't have the necessary skills to maintain the code and I was not the one who came up with the modifications. I'd be more than happy to take care of the administrative side of things, if that's possible. Best,Arash On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, 12:54 Wilfred van Rooijen, <wvanrooi...@yahoo.com&

Re: [XeTeX] The arcs package

2018-03-16 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
You should "adopt" the package and become the new maintainer, perhaps. Wilfred On Friday, March 16, 2018 7:33 PM, Arash Zeini wrote: Hi Everyone, A couple of years ago, I raised an issue I had encountered with the arcs package (see below for the complete run

Re: [XeTeX] popup windows in XeLaTeX?

2018-02-25 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
As far as I know, LuaLaTeX works with UTF-8 (as does XeLaTeX), so that they should give the same result - if the input file is encoded in UTF-8- if the same font is used- if the documentclass is "LuaLaTeX-compatible" Note that for LuaLaTeX you may need to change the documentclass, it is my

Re: [XeTeX] Using tikz with plain XeTeX

2017-05-13 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
As far as I know, tikz and pstricks should not be used simultaneous in a document. Wilfred On Saturday, May 13, 2017 8:08 PM, Philip Taylor wrote: John Was wrote: > I get six lines of info in the output (the sort of thing I’d expect in the > log) Can you

Re: [XeTeX] Overfull boxes return status of 0 in XeTeX

2016-03-13 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
I haven't followed the discussion in detail, but IMHO it would be nonsense to turn overfull boxes into errors, because they are not errors, rather the line breaking algorithm could not find a proper way to fix things differently. Remember, there is always the "draft" mode which will clearly show

Re: [XeTeX] Why XeTeX runs are non-deterministic?

2016-02-20 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
If I remember well, there is (was ?) some kind of objective for backward compatibility, namely that all (updates of) versions of all TeX engines should produce the exact same output for a given input file. The background being that any TeX file that used to compile correctly in the past should

Re: [XeTeX] Two side and margins

2016-02-13 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
RTFM of the geometry package to make sure you know what you're doing. Put the \geometry{twoside} __before__ you make changes because the \geometry{twoside} will probably overwrite (some of) your custom settings. This is NOT a XeTeX question. Go to http://tex.stackexchange.com/ for these kinds

Re: [XeTeX] DVIasm

2016-02-09 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
There are many "gotchas" going from Python 2 to Python 3 - with the change from "print" to "print()" being by far the most irritating (and the most stringently enforced by the Python interpreter). There are several IDEs which can highlight problems and give tips to migrate from Python 2 to

Re: [XeTeX] Graphics overwriting text

2014-11-21 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
I have a feeling that the JPG image is the source of the problem, and that somehow the calculation of the bounding box (i.e. the calculation of the size of the figure) somehow goes wrong. Apparently, the actual image is larger than what latex expects. Note the following: LaTeX does not know

Re: [XeTeX] Problems with toc

2014-07-15 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Question is of course: what is properly formatted... On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 2:32 AM, Sharon Kimble boudic...@skimble.plus.com wrote: I'm using the new tex14live, and am having great difficulties in generating a toc without spaces between each item. I'm using --8---cut

Re: [XeTeX] FakeBold vs TikZ

2014-06-15 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi all, I can confirm this issue with XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-0..3 (TeX Live 2013) on linux and both Evince and Acroread as PDF viewers. There definitely is a dot. I guess the issue is solved in TeXLive 2014. By the way, if you add a an extra circle to be plotted, that extra circle

Re: [XeTeX] Linguistic structural analysis

2014-06-06 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
If you want to do this in LaTeX, then PGF/TikZ is the only workable solution. It contains several libraries to make these kinds of maps, check the manual. I think the Tree Library might be interesting for your application. Cheers, Wilfred On Saturday, June 7, 2014 6:21 AM, Johann Spies

Re: [XeTeX] hyperlinks, and no section numbers

2014-05-17 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Excuse me for being ignorant, but if you want __no__ section numbers, then why not use \section*{} ? Cheers, Wilfred On Saturday, May 17, 2014 7:07 PM, Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wag...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-05-17 11:38 GMT+02:00 Sharon Kimble boudic...@skimble.plus.com: Stefan Solbrig

Re: [XeTeX] texlive and xetex

2014-01-05 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, I just installed texlive basic and latex cjk to ubuntu 13.10 of my triple-boot xp osx lnx D430 with total hdd space 120Gb. Trpl bt wth 1 hdd impress. abbrev. Cool. ;-)) I wonder whether such installation of texlive includes all xetex or not 'cause I really interested in xetex. I

Re: [XeTeX] Letterly fonts

2013-08-07 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
:56, Wilfred van Rooijen wvanrooi...@yahoo.com wrote: What is a letter template for the world? Well my dream would be people from India, China or Korea, after visiting http://letterly.com/ can create a letter PDF using Xetex in their own script. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_(message) Tbh

Re: [XeTeX] pstricks / pst-labo and xelatex

2013-07-22 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Maybe a late contribution. I installed TeXLive 2013 today on my linux laptop. I tried the test file (with the test tube) and it results in a correct PDF (?) \listfiles \documentclass{minimal} \usepackage{pstricks,pst-labo} \begin{document} \begin{pspicture} \pstTubeEssais \end{pspicture}

Re: [XeTeX] pstricks / pst-labo and xelatex

2013-07-22 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
From: Akira Kakuto kak...@fuk.kindai.ac.jp To: Wilfred van Rooijen wvanrooi...@yahoo.com; XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion. xetex@tug.org Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 8:16 PM Subject: Re: [XeTeX] pstricks / pst-labo and xelatex Hi, ** WARNING ** 355 memory objects still allocated You may

Re: [XeTeX] bidi xwatermark are broken

2013-06-12 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Well, it works OK on my computer, but note that the DRAFT shows up in a rather strange place... See attached PDF. Wilfred From: Fahad Al-Saidi fahad.alsa...@gmail.com To: XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion. xetex@tug.org Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Re: [XeTeX] bidi xwatermark are broken

2013-06-12 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
). From: Arthur Reutenauer arthur.reutena...@normalesup.org To: Wilfred van Rooijen wvanrooi...@yahoo.com; XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion. xetex@tug.org Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 8:21 PM Subject: Re: [XeTeX] bidi xwatermark are broken Well

Re: [XeTeX] Strange error

2013-06-09 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Well http://www.ctan.org/pkg/etoolbox The package is present in TeXLive 2012. Cheers, Wilfred From: Sasi Kumar sasi@gmail.com To: xetex@tug.org Sent: Sunday, June 9, 2013 9:07 PM Subject: [XeTeX] Strange error Dear friends, I encountered an

Re: [XeTeX] Strange error

2013-06-09 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hmmm. Polyglossia calls etoolbox. It really should be on your system if xetex is also available. Wilfred From: Sasi Kumar sasi@gmail.com To: xetex@tug.org Sent: Sunday, June 9, 2013 9:07 PM Subject: [XeTeX] Strange error Dear friends, I

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX, xeCJK, Japanese: some general questions

2013-06-05 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
classes for ctex and uptex take care of these things. In memoir it is possible to emulate the behavior, but not from polyglossia or babel - changes to the actual class files are needed. Cheers, Wilfred - Original Message - From: Jiang Jiang gzjj...@gmail.com To: Wilfred van Rooijen

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX, xeCJK, Japanese: some general questions

2013-06-05 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi all, Since the graphics package doesn't ``know'' which backend driver you are going to use after the dvi file is created (it will assume dvips by default when in dvi mode) you need to give [dvipdfm] in the option list. It was needed in the early days of XeTeX, now it is recognized

[XeTeX] XeLaTeX, xeCJK, Japanese: some general questions

2013-06-02 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi all, I have been using XeLaTeX for a while now. Most of my materials are in English, or mixed Japanese and English. Until now, I have been using the following setup: - XeLaTeX + fontspec - linebreaking in Japanese: \XeTeXlinebreaklocale ja \XeTeXlinebreakskip=0em plus 0.1em minus 0.01em

Re: [XeTeX] Problem with XeTeX 0.9999.2 and includegraphics

2013-04-17 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
 Avoid file names with an unusual number of dots (unusual is everything not equal to 0). I would say everything not equal to 1. In fact, I am surprised that graphicx processes the file name with two dots correctly. Normally graphicx uses the last dot to be the delimiter for the file

Re: [XeTeX] (no subject)

2012-12-24 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hello Sasi, Do you have doubts or questions. Doubts would indicate that you do not trust the software? Questions would be just questions. Allow me to help a bit. Xe(La)TeX is just like normal, but with one big difference: xe(la)tex can read UTF-8 encoded source files. This means that xelatex

Re: [XeTeX] how do I embed fonts into a a xelatex generated pdf?

2012-05-03 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hello, Always be careful with pdf2ps. If one converts PS to PDF, information is lost - this is one of the reasons that the PDF file is usually smaller in size than the PS file. So it is technically not always possible to perfectly reconstruct a PS from a PDF. So be careful, especially if the

Re: [XeTeX] xdCJK how to mix occasional Japanese with Chinese and English

2012-04-23 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Life can be even simpler. Especially of you are not too much interested in the finer details of line-breaking etc. The following works quite OK for me: \documentclass[]{memoir} \usepackage{polyglossia}  % will load fontspec

Re: [XeTeX] enumerating quotations

2012-04-02 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Check out the amsthm package, the AMS Theorem package. It provides environments to make mathematical theorems, definitions, proofs, etc. You can set it up according to your own wishes and get numbered (and unnumbered if desired) quotations and I guess you can also use \ref if you put a \label

Re: [XeTeX] fonts: where to find? how to activate bold face?

2012-01-24 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hello Susan, To get a list of fonts installed on your linux computer, open a terminal and use fc-list This will give a list of all OTF and TTF on the system, including their xetex name. Regarding the lack of boldface, apparently your Angor Man Scaqh does not include boldface characters. If

Re: [XeTeX] grouping multiple types of footnote per section on same page

2012-01-23 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hello Matthias, What exactly do you mean? The present ordering in your book.pdf is: page 1: a s1; b s1; c s1; a s2; 1 s1; 2 s1; 3 s1; 4 s1; 5 s1; 6 s1; 1 s2; 2 s2; 3 s2; 4 s2 page 2: b s2; c s2; d s2; a s3; 5 s2; 1 s2; 2 s3 Is this the ordering you want, or do you want the ordering to be

Re: [XeTeX] HELP! ** ERROR ** Page number 65536l too large!

2011-09-29 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
But the real question remains: does the topic starter really produce a file with 65000 pages? Or is there some other error at play? The topic starter never mentioned how large his large tex file is Wilfred From: Martin Schröder mar...@oneiros.de To:

Re: [XeTeX] xetex/xelatex using TeXShop

2011-08-04 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, TeXshop is just a text editor specifically developed for editing tex source files. To use xelatex, you need to install the tex software as well. Cheerio, Wilfred From: Kattamuri Ekanadham eknat...@gmail.com To: xetex@tug.org Sent: Friday, August 5, 2011

Re: [XeTeX] not a specifically xetex question: how to put a character flush to right in centered environment?

2011-07-19 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi Quang, This may not answer your question directly, but for things like theorems, definitions, and proofs, take a look at the amsthm package. In almost all LaTeX class files environments for theorems, lemmas etc are defined, and with amsthm you can fine-tune those. For instance, if you use

Re: [XeTeX] Quotation marks

2011-06-08 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
If I remember correctly, I thought that there is in fact a \quote-command or something similar in latex which will produce the correct quotation marks for the currently active language. I remember that we had a lengthy discussion about that once on the Dutch latex list, but I forgot the details

Re: [XeTeX] xelatex and table of contents

2011-05-10 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, Please send a minimal example file which illustrates the problem. Then we can try to reproduce and fix the error. Cheers, Wilfred --- On Wed, 11/5/11, Ross Moore ross.mo...@mq.edu.au wrote: From: Ross Moore ross.mo...@mq.edu.au Subject: Re: [XeTeX] xelatex and table of contents To:

Re: [XeTeX] Beginning user with questions

2011-05-08 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
For very basic questions like this, there are an almost infinite number of resources online. - Typeset a tonal language. I don't know exactly what that means, but if it involves unicode-encoded characters and a font which can represent those characters, xe(la)tex is the way to go! - A table

Re: [XeTeX] Question about footnotes and unicode-math

2011-04-12 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
...@wideopenwest.com Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Question about footnotes and unicode-math To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms xetex@tug.org Date: Thursday, 7 April, 2011, 8:57 PM On Apr 7, 2011, at 1:06 AM, Wilfred van Rooijen wrote: Hi, I am trying to use the unicode-math

[XeTeX] Question about footnotes and unicode-math

2011-04-07 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, I am trying to use the unicode-math package in TL2011. I encounter something strange with the behavior of footnotes. The following code produces a non-superscript footnote (?). I checked the manual but was not able to find anything relevant. Am I doing something wrong, and if so, please

Re: [XeTeX] Tricky Format: Page Number Outside The Footnote Area

2011-01-25 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hello, Is this email address hijacked? You are supposed to be Rin Itoshiki, but I think that in reality you are not. Anyway. You are making your life too complicated. The template is very simple. If you use the memoir class, you can do all that is needed and the only thing you will need to

Re: [XeTeX] Custom page size

2011-01-11 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi all, In my humble opinion, the best you can do when it comes to custom paper sizes is to use the memoir class. The memoir manual (memman.pdf) has an excellent description of how latex treats the size of the stock, the page, and the folio. The memoir package includes the geometry package,

Re: [XeTeX] Please HeLp: I get this error compiling my Thesis

2010-12-14 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Please post more details, this is very little info. Apparently, you are loading several packages, and the macro \ifpdf is being defined by different packages. Potential solution: change package loading order, if you're like one of the packages has an IF statement to bypass the definition of

Re: [XeTeX] Specifying papersize with XeTeX

2010-11-10 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Although I may not really understand the question, if you take a look at the manual of the memoir class, it is precisely explained how (La)TeX treats the page size. Also, the geometry package lets you select any page size you want. Basically, (La)TeX does not care about the page size. For

Re: [XeTeX] Incorrect handling of name prefixes by biblatex (van, de)

2010-11-01 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Pierre Le 1 nov. 2010 à 01:25, Wilfred van Rooijen a écrit : Hi, I don't know if the following helps, it seems basic bibtex so I assume you already know. But just in case, the following example comes from the Latex Companion: Johannes Martinus Albertus van de Groene Heide

Re: [XeTeX] Fonts in running heads

2010-10-31 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, Please note the following: latex can speak many languages. This is achieved with the babel package. In xetex and friends, the babel package is superceded by the polyglossia package, but the objective is the same. For example, the words for chapter and section are translated into the

Re: [XeTeX] Incorrect handling of name prefixes by biblatex (van, de)

2010-10-31 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, I don't know if the following helps, it seems basic bibtex so I assume you already know. But just in case, the following example comes from the Latex Companion: Johannes Martinus Albertus van de Groene Heide (it may seem far-fetched but this kind of name is fairly common in The

Re: [XeTeX] newpage

2010-10-21 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, Just for the record: there are several commands in LaTeX to start a new page (from the top of my head: \newpage, \clearpage, \cleardoublepage, \clearemptydoublepage). In all cases, basically all material will be set on a page, and when the command is encountered, a new page is started and

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation initiative

2010-09-14 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
A somewhat belated reply. - Of course ConTeXt mustn't be ignored. ConTeXt Mk IV, which is based on LuaTeX, seems to have everything that is missing from LaTeX: a stable, coherent interface, a well-designed architecture that makes LaTeX-style hacking and package clashes unnecessary, XML

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation initiative

2010-09-10 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
September, 2010, 2:23 PM Hi Wilfred, On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 21:09:55 -0700 (PDT), Wilfred van Rooijen wrote: 10. Utilities : bibtex and makeindex (***) (***) as for references, how far should one go in the coverage of for instance jura-bib, the various bst files, etc. In how far

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation initiative

2010-09-09 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi Elliott, To answer your question: as far as I know, from the point of view of xetex as a computer language, it is supposed to be the same as standard tex, and thus ConTeXt should work just as well with xetex. But if you want to use a special XeTeX feature which is not yet introduced into

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation initiative

2010-09-09 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
OK, how about the following table of contents for a xelatex companion: - all material is based on the use of xelatex in combination with freely available high quality fonts, such as Latin Modern and TeX Gyre. The added finesses of Zapfino accessible through xelatex are beyond our scope (to give

Re: [XeTeX] Change fonts for different environment/commands

2010-09-08 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, Maybe my answer is a littlebit late, but I hope it might provide the original poster with some insight. Tex by itself is a rather stupid program, in the sense that it will read a stream of input commands and text and then put the corresponding font elements (glyphs) on some location in

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation initiative

2010-09-08 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
for attention also). Regards, Wilfred van Rooijen --- On Thu, 9/9/10, Alan Munn am...@gmx.com wrote: From: Alan Munn am...@gmx.com Subject: Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation initiative To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms xetex@tug.org Date: Thursday, 9 September, 2010, 3:58 AM

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation initiative

2010-09-07 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
, Wilfred van Rooijen --- On Wed, 1/9/10, Michiel Kamermans po...@nihongoresources.com wrote: From: Michiel Kamermans po...@nihongoresources.com Subject: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation initiative To: XeTeX Mailing List xetex@tug.org Date: Wednesday, 1 September, 2010, 6:07 PM Hi all, based

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation? (from Checking if a font exists)

2010-08-31 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
I guess it depends on the target audience. The Latex Companion is a good resource because it is written by experienced users, rather than maintainers of the packages. So I suppose we come to the point of User Manual and Reference Manual. With all the tools available nowadays (doxygen, docstrip,

Re: [XeTeX] Change fonts for different environment/commands

2010-08-31 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
I think you will have to redefine all those parts of the environments dealing with fonts. Can you send a minimal example of what you want to achieve? In my case, \addfontfeature yields undefined control sequence. There are many packages which already take care of these things for you, such as

Re: [XeTeX] Converting math symbols via xetex

2010-08-31 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, Note the following: in latex, setting of mathematical material is __substantially__ different from normal text. For example, the Greek letter phi can be entered as φ into xelatex, but is then not treated as a 'special mathematical' symbol. Math symbols are grouped into several categories:

Re: [XeTeX] Checking if a font exists

2010-08-30 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
You can edit the file fonts.conf (for example in /etc/fonts or /usr/X11/lib/X11/fontconfig) or ~/.fonts.conf, your personal copy that fonts are searched additionally in particular places. Certainly, but on a standard system this may not be set. Thus testing in fc-list would return a

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation? (from Checking if a font exists)

2010-08-30 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
I guess that in the Closed Source community you get a similar answer, it is just that __nobody__ outside those directly involved knows about it :-)) I have complained before on this list about the (scientific) community in which I am involved, where manuals are often outdated, or too short

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation? (from Checking if a font exists)

2010-08-30 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Come on, let's not get mad at each other. Avi's remark is both good-witted and true, and that last aspect makes it somewhat painful :-)) Indeed, the open source architecture should make it possible for non-developers to write a manual of the same quality, because you can access the source code

Re: [XeTeX] Checking if a font exists

2010-08-29 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, I am not 100% sure, but fc-list and friends might not always list the fonts even if they are on the user's system. For example, on my gentoo linux desktop, fonts for Adobe Acrobat are installed in a specific directory and are not included in the system-wide fonts by default. In fact, I

Re: [XeTeX] Japanese Characters in PDF do not match thosein source file.

2010-08-22 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, When you update your tex system make sure to run texconfig or a similar utility to update the database of file names, paths, etc. If you use Linux, make sure that the font occurs only once on your system. Fonts that are only installed by a single user usually reside in $HOME/.fonts, and

Re: [XeTeX] xelatex, texshop, Chinese question marks

2010-08-11 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, If I use Kochi Mincho (a font for Japanese), the first two characters show up correctly. The last character is Chinese-only. Judging from your post, I think the font that you are using (STkai) does not have glyphs for the characters you are requesting. So you should try another font. I am

Re: [XeTeX] OFFLIST: Re: Japanese, Chinese, Korean support for Polyglossia

2010-07-24 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi Benct, I guess that means you only need key(board positions) for those ~40 phonetic characters and a rendering engine which automagically replaces h+a+n with the composite syllable character for han, which also means that when you backspace the entire syllable will disappear.  Having

Re: [XeTeX] Japanese, Chinese, Korean support for Polyglossia

2010-07-23 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, used in Taiwan. I am not aware of any phonetic guide text practices in Korea. The Korean hangul script is already phonetic, so it does not need ruby. Kanji are used in Korea, but mostly to indicate place names and family names. The hangul script combines 1, 2, or 3 consonants and vowels

Re: [XeTeX] Unable to use XeLaTeX correctly upon TexLive2008 Install

2010-07-09 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, The error indicates that the particular font is not found as part of the system-wide fonts. Then, xelatex tries to generate the font in the old-fashioned way, and this fails. This means that you are using the wrong name in the \fontspec command. On Linux, do: 1. run fc-cache -fv This

Re: [XeTeX] Unable to use XeLaTeX correctly upon TexLive2008 Install

2010-07-09 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
  otfinfo -a fontname.otf  and  otfinfo -p fontname.otf to get the font name for setting /fontspec command. Kind Regards,Alan On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Wilfred van Rooijen wvanrooi...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, The error indicates that the particular font is not found as part of the system-wide fonts

Re: [XeTeX] xelatex crashes with a large document (TL2010)

2010-06-25 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi From the error log you have supplied, the error happens on page 34. It seems to me that this is not far into the document, and thus I think the crash has nothing to do with the size of the document. I suspect that there is some instruction in the source code which causes the crash, not the

Re: [XeTeX] Python Project: PDF Optimization

2010-06-05 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi all, Given the few responses we have had so far on this topic, it seems that the OP is right: there are many, small programs available which can do most of what is required, but each of those programs then has specific applications which it can or cannot do. To make an integrated package,

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX font options

2010-05-19 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi Mark, Alright. When selecting the font, is this enough to make it work in the document? Or should I use \setmainfont? Is there any place where I need to add Mapping=tex-text? Blame my newbieness for not understanding better. Sorry. Currently I have added \setmainfont at the

[XeTeX] Rubber support for xelatex

2010-05-18 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hello all, Apparently, a bugfix is available allowing one to use rubber with xelatex. The required fix to rubber can be found here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=579757 Regards, Wilfred van Rooijen -- Subscriptions

Re: [XeTeX] Em-dash

2010-05-04 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
chars. (Only theorizing). I know this is imagination only, but I think this kind of developments could make easier and, mainly, more comfortable a lot of work for a lot of people. If anybody wants/can afford to try, this idea is free, like beer. Cheers! J.F.F. 2010/5/4 Wilfred van Rooijen wvanrooi

Re: [XeTeX] selecting font size

2010-04-16 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
And for those of us who are relatively new to LaTeX: latex can produce various classes of documents, like an article, report, book, etc. Each class is specific for certain purposes, and features default setup etc. There are several standard latex classes, i.e. article, report, and book (if

Re: [XeTeX] selecting font size

2010-04-16 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
As far as I remember, if you use memoir in the article emulation mode, the command \chapter works in the same way as \section in the article class. Wilfred --- On Fri, 16/4/10, Herbert Schulz he...@wideopenwest.com wrote: From: Herbert Schulz he...@wideopenwest.com Subject: Re: [XeTeX]

Re: [XeTeX] Automatic Verse Numbering

2010-03-11 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, I suggest you take a look at the ledmac and ledpar packages, which, according to the description, are latex package for critical editions, including many options to set poems, line numbering, footnotes, etc. By the way this list is specific for xe(la)tex. Your question would be better