Re: [XeTeX] linux libertine and number

2010-12-31 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:51:22 + schrieb Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd): It is a very bad idea to make numbers active and to define them in this way. By way of demonstration that one can make digits active yet still have access to the functionality that François needs, I append the

Re: [XeTeX] linux libertine and number

2010-12-31 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Ulrike Fischer wrote: Well Francois wanted to avoid to have to write $7$ or \text{7) instead of simply 7 in all sort of places. So I don't think a solution which forces him to write \seven in all sort of places offers him the functionality he needs. But it doesn't; it requires him to write

Re: [XeTeX] linux libertine and number

2010-12-31 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Afterthought : surely the real point is to give François a choice -- now at least he is aware that there is a simple TeX solution to his problem, and that he does not need to learn all the intricacies of fontspec in order to solve a trivial problem. ** Phil.

Re: [XeTeX] linux libertine and number

2010-12-31 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:04:22 + schrieb Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd): Afterthought : surely the real point is to give François a choice -- now at least he is aware that there is a simple TeX solution to his problem, and that he does not need to learn all the intricacies of fontspec in

Re: [XeTeX] linux libertine and number

2010-12-31 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Ulrike Fischer wrote: And please don't repeat that you was not in any way trying to suggest that this is a general or universal solution.. You _did_ sent the first example without any code which restricted the effect of the catcodes changes and without any warnings about side-effects. This

Re: [XeTeX] linux libertine and number

2010-12-31 Thread Tobias Schoel
Could you please calm down. Nobody was hurt, just a little misunderstanding. Am 31.12.2010 15:35, schrieb Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd): Ulrike Fischer wrote: And please don't repeat that you was not in any way trying to suggest that this is a general or universal solution.. You _did_

Re: [XeTeX] linux libertine and number

2010-12-31 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 31/12/2010 15:35, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) a écrit : Ulrike Fischer wrote: And please don't repeat that you was not in any way trying to suggest that this is a general or universal solution.. You _did_ sent the first example

Re: [XeTeX] linux libertine and number

2010-12-31 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
François Patte wrote: I think that many people are like me: using latex and finding some solutions to their problems but without going deeply into the technical part of it. Mastering the side effects of a solution like yours is not obvious and you should have given some information about the

Re: [XeTeX] linux libertine and number

2010-12-30 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Ulrike Fischer wrote: It is a very bad idea to make numbers active and to define them in this way. By way of demonstration that one can make digits active yet still have access to the functionality that François needs, I append the following : ** Phil. \documentclass {minimal}

Re: [XeTeX] linux libertine and number

2010-12-29 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 28/12/2010 21:03, Peter Dyballa a écrit : Am 28.12.2010 um 19:44 schrieb François Patte: Multiply 5 by 7: $7\times 5 = 35$ With XeTeX and fontspec loaded you also load xunicode. So you can write as well: Multiply 5 by 7: 7

Re: [XeTeX] linux libertine and number

2010-12-29 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Tue, 28 Dec 2010 19:08:57 + schrieb Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd): Bonjour, François : is this perhaps the sort of thing you had in mind ? \documentclass {minimal} \usepackage {fontspec} \setmainfont {Linux Libertine O} \begin {document} Multiply 5 by 7: $7\times 5 = 35$

Re: [XeTeX] linux libertine and number

2010-12-29 Thread M. Niedermair
I read somewhere that Linux Libertine developers are working on an OpenType math font, may be there is a beta release somewhere. Not yet! Maybe in some weeks a alpha version. By Michael -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.:

Re: [XeTeX] linux libertine and number

2010-12-29 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 29.12.2010 um 10:14 schrieb François Patte: I was wondering if there would be some fonts feature like: [Numbers=OldStyle], one could imagine: [Numbers=MathNumbers] MathNumbers can be found in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP) at U+1D400...1D7FF. -- Greetings Pete

Re: [XeTeX] linux libertine and number

2010-12-29 Thread Tobias Schoel
Hi, I could have used array instead of longtable but, it is not handy to write normal text within the mathematical mode and I need to mix both... the package array helps. it defines the {} and {} column modifiers for tabular environments: \documentclass{minimal} \usepackage{fontspec}

[XeTeX] linux libertine and number

2010-12-28 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, I would like to know why the numbers are different if typed with or without the $ sign: Using \setmainfont{Linux Libertine O} 7 is smaller than $7$ Is it possible to correct this? I want the same size (ie. $7$) Of course I can always

Re: [XeTeX] linux libertine and number

2010-12-28 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 28.12.2010 um 11:06 schrieb François Patte: Is it possible to correct this? Yes: set up the maths font used for $7$ accordingly. (In TeX text and maths fonts are different.) Some like the difference of shape between a text 7 and and a maths 7. If you are not among them, then simply

Re: [XeTeX] linux libertine and number

2010-12-28 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
François Patte wrote: Thanks for this answer. It is not too nice if you have to write: Multiply 5 by 7: $7\times 5 = 35$ Bonjour, François : is this perhaps the sort of thing you had in mind ? \documentclass {minimal} \usepackage {fontspec} \setmainfont {Linux Libertine O} \begin

Re: [XeTeX] linux libertine and number

2010-12-28 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 28.12.2010 um 19:44 schrieb François Patte: Multiply 5 by 7: $7\times 5 = 35$ With XeTeX and fontspec loaded you also load xunicode. So you can write as well: Multiply 5 by 7: 7 \texttimes{} 5 = 35 Multiply 5 by 7: 7 × 5 = 35 I see another problem here: Is 5

Re: [XeTeX] linux libertine and number

2010-12-28 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 07:44:42PM +0100, François Patte wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 28/12/2010 12:14, Peter Dyballa a écrit : Am 28.12.2010 um 11:06 schrieb François Patte: Is it possible to correct this? Yes: set up the maths font used for $7$

Re: [XeTeX] linux libertine and number

2010-12-28 Thread Dominik Wujastyk
And we can dub this, um, let me see, ... ActiveteX. :-) 2010/12/28 Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk François Patte wrote: Thanks for this answer. It is not too nice if you have to write: Multiply 5 by 7: $7\times 5 = 35$ Bonjour, François : is this perhaps the