Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures

2013-06-19 Thread Philip Taylor
Jean-Claude Raoult wrote: Please, think of people using plain TeX. I am certainly not the only one. Indeed you are not, Jean-Claude, and I too like ct and st ligatures in high-quality typography. I am reasonably certain that it is possible without using the execrable LaTeX, but with a

Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures

2013-06-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.06.2013 um 11:39 schrieb Philip Taylor: If I find no more informative replies by the time I am next online, I will investigate further and report back. The fontspec manual describes it. The keywords are rlig, hlig, clig, etc. They can be (de)activated in plain TeX as in:

Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures

2013-06-19 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
The fontspec manual describes it. The keywords are rlig, hlig, clig, etc. For more details on OpenType tags, you might want to check the specification, and match the list of tags defined in the font at hand with it: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/featuretags.htm Also, the

Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures

2013-06-19 Thread Jean-Claude Raoult
Le 19/06/2013 12:23, Khaled Hosny a écrit : On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 11:53:00AM +0200, Jean-Claude Raoult wrote: The documentation is clear, for people using LaTeX or rather XeLaTeX. Presumably because you were reading LaTeX oriented documentation? XeTeX documentation itself documents the low

Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures

2013-06-19 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 01:49:26PM +0200, Jean-Claude Raoult wrote: Le 19/06/2013 12:23, Khaled Hosny a écrit : On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 11:53:00AM +0200, Jean-Claude Raoult wrote: The documentation is clear, for people using LaTeX or rather XeLaTeX. Presumably because you were reading LaTeX

Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures

2013-06-19 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
Thank you. This is just what I needed. Incidentally, the tag +liga yielding ligatures for fi, ff, fl, ffi and ffl is the default. It shoul be disabled for small caps: I'm pretty sure this is taken care of by the font. Have you observed a small caps fi ligature? I don't even see why a font

Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures

2013-06-19 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 01:11:55PM +0100, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: Thank you. This is just what I needed. Incidentally, the tag +liga yielding ligatures for fi, ff, fl, ffi and ffl is the default. It shoul be disabled for small caps: I'm pretty sure this is taken care of by the font.

[XeTeX] Ligatures

2013-06-02 Thread Jean-Claude Raoult
Hello, I am fond of (french) typography. Therefore, I would like XeTeX to automatically change not only fi, ff, fl and the like, but also st and ct — when available. The documentation is clear, for people using LaTeX or rather XeLaTeX. Unfortunately, I do not practice the english proverb why

Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures

2013-06-02 Thread Jean-Claude Raoult
Le 02/06/2013 14:44, John Was a écrit : Hello I use plain XeTeX also, but not that font. However, looking at the Libertine website, I would suggest you add :+hlig to the font call (so e.g. Linux Libertine O:+hlig:mapping=tex-text) If you right-click the font file itself and select

Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures no tproberly rendered in Gillius ADF Condensed

2010-12-04 Thread Pander
On 2010-12-04 00:17, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: Am 03.12.2010 um 16:30 schrieb Pander: Another small font issue with XeLaTeX. The following \documentclass{article} \usepackage{xltxtra} \begin{document} \fontspec{GilliusADF-Cond}\itshape

Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures no tproberly rendered in Gillius ADF Condensed

2010-12-04 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Am 04.12.2010 um 16:20 schrieb Pander: Output of ttx provides more ligatures. I use ttx's output for my font catalogue and for all other fonts, this info on ligatures is correct. Because you use a certain tool, it is more correct than other people's? Isn't this a rather silly statement? Well,

Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures no tproberly rendered in Gillius ADF Condensed

2010-12-04 Thread Pander
On 2010-12-04 17:40, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: Am 04.12.2010 um 16:20 schrieb Pander: Output of ttx provides more ligatures. I use ttx's output for my font catalogue and for all other fonts, this info on ligatures is correct. Because you use a certain tool, it is more correct than other

Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures no tproberly rendered in Gillius ADF Condensed

2010-12-04 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 04.12.2010 um 17:40 schrieb Joachim Trinkwitz: Because you use a certain tool, it is more correct than other people's? Isn't this a rather silly statement? Well, if you think Linotypes font manager is lying on me, then you know better, I suppose ... (even the fact that several tools

Re: [XeTeX] ligatures in (plain) XeTeX

2010-11-20 Thread John Was
you accurate information about that. HTH J - Original Message - From: Jean-Claude Raoult jc.rao...@free.fr To: xetex@tug.org Sent: 20 November 2010 11:07 Subject: [XeTeX] ligatures in (plain) XeTeX Hello, My problem : getting ligatures with (plain) XeTeX, the engine being

Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures and searching in PDFs

2010-06-09 Thread Gareth Hughes
Ross Moore wrote: However, PDF has two separate mechanisms to overcome this. 1. a CMap resource for the font 2. the /ActualText tagging construction Concerning method 1. CMap resources: I don't know where that CMap resource is being constructed. Presumably it is by xdvipdfmx as

Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures and searching in PDFs

2010-06-09 Thread David J. Perry
Scripsit Gareth: What is more, I do a lot of work with Syriac, a cursive script for which most joined shapes are encoded in the PUA or somewhere that's going spare. This means that my XeTeX PDFs aren't searchable or copyable in Syriac. Only one or two Syriac letters per word can be searched or

Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures and searching in PDFs

2010-06-08 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Argh, this was not off-list. Please accept my apologies, and also keep the information in this confidential. Philip Taylor Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: [Off-list] Have I told you that Thanh has created a Win-32 version of the modified PdfTeX [...]

Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures and searching in PDFs

2010-06-07 Thread Ross Moore
Hi Andy, On 08/06/2010, at 11:39 AM, Andy Lin wrote: It seems I misunderstood what exactly the TECkit mapping does. All it does is change the input as instructed. All other features -- copy/paste and search compatibility -- I'd assumed was attributed to TECkit is actually that of the PDF

Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures and searching in PDFs

2010-06-01 Thread Andy Lin
One ting I'm wondering about: not all of the fonts I use always have all those ligatures. From what I understand from you, can't check right now, glyphs will be replaced usgin the mapping regardless of glyph availability, which would lead to missing glyphs in the docuemnt if not available.

Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures and searching in PDFs

2010-05-10 Thread David J. Perry
The proper solution would be to use /ActualText feature of the PDF specification. I am very interested in this issue of searching PDFs. A google search for PDF Actual Text turned up nothing. I then downloaded the actual PDF spec from the Adobe web site and found the reference, and got the

Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures and searching in PDFs

2010-05-10 Thread Janusz S. Bień
On Mon, 10 May 2010 David J. Perry hospes.pri...@verizon.net wrote: The proper solution would be to use /ActualText feature of the PDF specification. I am very interested in this issue of searching PDFs. A google search for PDF Actual Text turned up nothing. I then downloaded the actual

Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures and searching in PDFs

2010-05-10 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 04:26:11AM +0200, Janusz S. Bień wrote: On Mon, 10 May 2010 David J. Perry hospes.pri...@verizon.net wrote: The proper solution would be to use /ActualText feature of the PDF specification. I am very interested in this issue of searching PDFs. A google search

Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures and searching in PDFs

2010-05-10 Thread Janusz S. Bień
On Tue, 11 May 2010 Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: [...] IIRC, there are already latex packages that adds higher level support for ActualText tags (low level support is already in the engines). You are right: