Re: [XeTeX] Having correct hyphenation for multiple languages in the same document

2010-07-20 Thread Francois Charette
On 20/07/2010 11:07, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: Am 20.07.2010 um 10:19 schrieb François Charette: I have at home a whole book devoted to Arabic typography and font design which illustrates how one font can provide Arabic and Latin in which both scripts share most visual features and blend toge

Re: [XeTeX] Having correct hyphenation for multiple languages in the same document

2010-07-20 Thread George
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Ulrike Fischer wrote: > gloss-english.ldf doesn't use \englishfont. Simply set your fonts > with fontspec. polyglossia will pick them up for "latin" scripts. > (Languages are not symmetric regarding fonts: For latin scripts you > need normally 3 font families (for

Re: [XeTeX] Having correct hyphenation for multiple languages in the same document

2010-07-20 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:19:50 +0200 schrieb François Charette: >> (Languages are not symmetric regarding fonts: For latin scripts you >> need normally 3 font families (for \rmfamily, \sffamily, \ttfamily) >> while greek seems to use only one.) > There are Greek, Arabic and Hebrew fonts that can

Re: [XeTeX] Having correct hyphenation for multiple languages in the same document

2010-07-20 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Am 20.07.2010 um 10:19 schrieb François Charette: > I have at home a whole book devoted to Arabic typography and font design > which illustrates how one font can provide Arabic and Latin in which both > scripts share most visual features and blend together in harmony. This may be > a legitimate

Re: [XeTeX] Having correct hyphenation for multiple languages in the same document

2010-07-20 Thread François Charette
On 20/07/2010 09:29, Ulrike Fischer wrote: (Languages are not symmetric regarding fonts: For latin scripts you need normally 3 font families (for \rmfamily, \sffamily, \ttfamily) while greek seems to use only one.) There are Greek, Arabic and Hebrew fonts that can be used to match \sffamily a

Re: [XeTeX] Having correct hyphenation for multiple languages in the same document

2010-07-20 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
> (Languages are not symmetric regarding fonts: For latin scripts you > need normally 3 font families (for \rmfamily, \sffamily, \ttfamily) > while greek seems to use only one.) This assumption is not correct. For example, if you do not plan to typeset say computer code, then obviously you d

Re: [XeTeX] Having correct hyphenation for multiple languages in the same document

2010-07-20 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:55:32 +0100 schrieb George: > I'm trying to compile a document that has both English and Greek text. > I tried with polyglossia which uses the correct hyphenation for each > language but ignores my selection for the English font (and not for > the Greek for some reason). I t

Re: [XeTeX] Having correct hyphenation for multiple languages in the same document

2010-07-19 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
> \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text, > Numbers=OldStyle] > {Linux Libertine O} % the only font needed > %\newfontfamily\greekfont{Linux Libertine O} > %\newfontfamily\englishfont[Numbers=OldStyle]{Linux Libertine O} And that's exactly what I was writing about the past few

Re: [XeTeX] Having correct hyphenation for multiple languages in the same document

2010-07-19 Thread Gildas Hamel
* Gildas Hamel (gwel...@ucsc.edu) wrote: |> * George (pinkisntw...@gmail.com) wrote: |>|> I'm trying to compile a document that has both English and Greek text. |>|> I tried with polyglossia which uses the correct hyphenation for each |>|> language but ignores my selection

Re: [XeTeX] Having correct hyphenation for multiple languages in the same document

2010-07-19 Thread Gildas Hamel
* George (pinkisntw...@gmail.com) wrote: |> I'm trying to compile a document that has both English and Greek text. |> I tried with polyglossia which uses the correct hyphenation for each |> language but ignores my selection for the English font (and not for |> the Greek for some reason)

[XeTeX] Having correct hyphenation for multiple languages in the same document

2010-07-19 Thread George
I'm trying to compile a document that has both English and Greek text. I tried with polyglossia which uses the correct hyphenation for each language but ignores my selection for the English font (and not for the Greek for some reason). I try with plain xelatex and it uses the correct fonts but not