Re: [XeTeX] Greek letterspacing with soul

2010-05-24 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Ulrike Fischer wrote: I can solve the problem with the euro sign by resetting the font to latin modern typewriter with \makeatletter \font\s...@tt=LMMono10-Regular\makeatletter Or maybe even : \makeatletter \font\s...@tt=LMMono10-Regular\makeatother %%% ?! Philip Taylor

Re: [XeTeX] Greek letterspacing with soul

2010-05-24 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Pablo Rodríguez wrote: You are right, but I'm afraid this doesn't solve the problem with Reconstruction failed error messages. Thanks anyway No, sorry, I didn't think it would fix that problem, but it could have caused other errors if left as Ulrike had originally formulated it. ** Phil.

Re: [XeTeX] footnotes and ArabXeTeX

2011-10-05 Thread Philip TAYLOR
catcode. Philip Taylor -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

[XeTeX] XeTeXpicfile

2011-11-11 Thread Philip TAYLOR
0.666 leads to ** WARNING ** Transformation matrix not invertible. ** WARNING ** --- M = [0 0 0 0 -43.6535 -396.088] How is one intended to accomplish fractional scaling, please ? Philip Taylor -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc

Re: [XeTeX] nbsp; in XeTeX

2011-11-13 Thread Philip TAYLOR
to display different Unicode spaces differently, such that the user can visually differentiate between them ? Philip Taylor -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] nbsp; in XeTeX

2011-11-13 Thread Philip TAYLOR
One option would be to colour-code them, but I was more interested in the philosophy than the implementation. ** Phil. Not in every case. How would you visually differentiate between all the white space characters (space vs. non-break space, thin space (u2009) vs. narrow no-break

Re: [XeTeX] nbsp; in XeTeX

2011-11-13 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Tobias Schoel wrote: Now, that the practicability is cleared, let's come back to the philosophical part: Actually, I think this is the practical/pragmatic part, but let's carry on none the less ... Should nbsp=u00a0 be active and treated as ~ by default? Just like u202f and u2009 should be

Re: [XeTeX] nbsp; in XeTeX

2011-11-14 Thread Philip TAYLOR
, for the youngsters XML, TeX, HTML are per definition plain text files. No, they are text files, not /plain/ text files. Look at some mime types : text/plain (for plain text) text/html (for HTML) Philip Taylor -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List

Re: [XeTeX] nbsp; in XeTeX

2011-11-14 Thread Philip TAYLOR
troublesome than any of the sixteen or so currently reserved characters when it comes to transput : that is why \unexpanded exists. Philip Taylor -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] nbsp; in XeTeX

2011-11-14 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Keith J. Schultz wrote: Hi Phillip, Am 14.11.2011 um 09:36 schrieb Philip TAYLOR: Keith J. Schultz wrote: So, Unicode needs an editor to be displayed correctly. Why ? Not meant to sound aggressive, but seems a very odd assertion, IMHO. Editors are for changing things; why would you

Re: [XeTeX] nbsp; in XeTeX

2011-11-14 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Chris Travers wrote: Ok, so why don't we have a similar macro here? Something like: \obeynbsps See above : there are /some/ things that TeX does that transcend category codes (which are the basis for \obeylines); in particular [1] : $$ TeX deletes any space characters (number 32) that

Re: [XeTeX] nbsp; in XeTeX

2011-11-14 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Chris Travers wrote: But what's the point of putting non-breaking spaces between a word and the end of a line? or for that matter what if I alternate spaces and special unicode spaces? Do I get a word space for each of them? In (e.g.,) HTML, it is by no means unusual to interweave spaces

Re: [XeTeX] nbsp; in XeTeX

2011-11-14 Thread Philip TAYLOR
When you are willing to come back to a serious discussion we talk. I am participating in a serious discussion, Keith, but I am more than happy to ignore your own inane babble if it will make you any happier. Philip Taylor Keith J Schultz wrote : Hi Humpty Dumpty, Go read

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-14 Thread Philip TAYLOR
that it is, /a priori/, invalid for XeTeX ? Remainder snipped, so that we can debate one point at a time. Philip Taylor -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-14 Thread Philip TAYLOR
msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: XeTeX is a TeX engine. Obviously, it is free to define its own input format, and that format already differs from other TeX engines by (for instance) allowing some Unicode code points outside the 7-bit range. I think (with respect) that some Unicode code

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-14 Thread Philip TAYLOR
msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: On Mon, 14 Nov 2011, Philip TAYLOR wrote: I think (with respect) that some Unicode code points outside the 7-bit range is a gross understatement. As far as I am aware, XeTeX permits a very considerable subset of Unicode (perhaps even all of it; I do not know

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-14 Thread Philip TAYLOR
that it is, /a priori/, invalid for XeTeX ? Remainder snipped, so that we can debate one point at a time. Philip Taylor -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-15 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Zdenek Wagner wrote: The only reasonable solution seems to be the one suggested by Phil Taylor, to extend \catcode up to 255 and assign special categories to other types of characters. Thus we could say that normal space id 10, nonbreakable space is 16, thin space is 17 etc. XeTeX will then

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-15 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Chris Travers wrote: But we are talking two different things here. The first is user interface, and the second is mechanism. What I am saying is special handling of this sort should be required to be enabled somehow by the user. I don't really care how. It could be by a commandline switch

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-15 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Zdenek Wagner wrote: If you know what such characters are (and it will certainly be documented), you just set their categories back to 12 in order to get the old behaviour. No ! A catcode is for life, not just for Christmas ! Once a character has been read, and bound into a

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-15 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Arthur Reutenauer wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 02:20:17PM +, Philip TAYLOR wrote: No ! A catcode is for life, not just for Christmas ! Once a character has been read, and bound into a character/catcode pair, that catcode remains immutable. Do you mean that as a general good

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-15 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Zdenek Wagner wrote: Of course, I know it. What I meant was that you could set \catcode of all these extended characters to 12 at the beginning of your document. Thus you get the same behaviour as now. Ah yes : with that, I have no problem. ** Phil.

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-15 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Arthur Reutenauer wrote: The latter is what the TeXbok says (P.~39) : Once a category code has been attached to a character token, the attachment is permanent. Yes, because you meant individual tokens (which I understood in retrospect). But in the context of the discussion, you really

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-15 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Herbert Schulz wrote: The latter is what the TeXbok says (P.~39) : Once a category code has been attached to a character token, the attachment is permanent. ** Phil. What happens in a verbatim environment? The verbatim environment sets up an environment within which characters that have

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-15 Thread Philip TAYLOR
I think it made more sense with can't, Herb, but that could be a trans-Atlantic difference of usage -- you would, I think, say I could care less where I would say I couldn't care less. ** Phil. Herbert Schulz wrote: What I meant to say was... So what you are saying is not that you

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-15 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Ross Moore wrote: Hi Phil, On 16/11/2011, at 10:08 AM, Zdenek Wagner wrote: Not I, Sir : Zdeněk ! ** Phil. -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-17 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Keith J. Schultz wrote: Am 17.11.2011 um 11:26 schrieb Keith J. Schultz: O.K. You mention in a later post that you do consider a space as a printable character. This line should read as: You mention in a later post that you consider a space as a non-printable

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-17 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Ross, I do not dispute your arguments : I was answering Keith's question in an honest way. I (personally) do not think of a space in TeX output as a character at all, because I am steeped in TeX philosophy; but I am quite willing to accept that /if/ the objective is not to produce output for the

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-17 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Keith J. Schultz wrote: The crux of of the problem is in (Xe)TeX's parsing algorithm. I never liked it and personally I have many problems it. Is this XeTeX-specific, Keith, or do you also dislike TeX's parsing algorithm ? And what is it that you dislike, and how would you propose that it

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-18 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Zdenek Wagner wrote: I admit that things could be done better than in nowadays TeX but its complete revamping seems to me as bad investment. I would rather think of an FO processor. And I agree with Zdeněk : this discussion will be productive only if we focus on what can be accomplished

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-18 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Is it safe to assume that these code listings are restricted to the ASCII character set ? If so, yes, spaces are likely to be a problem, but if the code listing can also include ligature- digraphs, then these are likely to prove even more problematic. ** Phipl. Ulrike Fischer wrote:

Re: [XeTeX] (OT) Re: TeX in the modern World. (goes OT) Was: Re: Whitespace in input

2011-11-19 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Keith J. Schultz wrote: Me I am almost 50 and have been around computers since the 80s. First was a Apple IIe, at the university we used a main frame. My first computer was a Clary 404, with 8K of magnetic core memory, a magnetic card reader and/or teletype as input device,

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-19 Thread Philip TAYLOR
hope that this does not happen, and that before then we have an Omnicode consortium to review the mistakes of Unicode and to address them in a future, more orthogonal, more consistent, specification. Philip Taylor -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List

Re: [XeTeX] TeX in the modern World. (goes OT) Was: Re: Whitespace in input

2011-11-19 Thread Philip TAYLOR
) and feature requests (many) from his early adopters. Philip Taylor -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

[XeTeX] VIQR pre-processor wrotten in (Xe)TeX ?

2011-11-23 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Does anyone have (or know of) a VIQR (Vietnamese Quoted-Readable) pre-processor, written in (Xe)TeX, that would allow me to input documents of the form : 1. Ba’nh pho^`ng to^m | Prawn Crackers (£1.00) 2. Rong bie^?n | Crispy seaweed (£2.50) and to have these VIQR forms internally

Re: [XeTeX] VIQR pre-processor wrotten in (Xe)TeX ?

2011-11-23 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Vafa Khalighi wrote: You need to create mapping for that. Well, maybe. If that is the case, then let me re-formulate my question (since I haven't the slightest idea how to create a mapping) : has anyone created a VIQR mapping for XeTeX ? ** Phil.

Re: [XeTeX] VIQR pre-processor wrotten in (Xe)TeX ?

2011-11-23 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Thank you, Vafa : that looks achievable, so if after a decent wait it would appear that one does not exist, I shall have a go at creating one. ** Phil. Vafa Khalighi wrote: I do not know if there is one but in case there is none, creating one is easy. I have attached a guide on teckit

Re: [XeTeX] VIQR pre-processor wrotten in (Xe)TeX ?

2011-11-24 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Could you offer an example of ambiguous VIQR input, Andrew ? I am not sufficiently familiar with the encoding to envisage in what way ambiguity might occur. Philip Taylor Andrew Cunningham wrote: You will need to make sure that ambiguous VIQR input is escaped as appropriate

Re: [XeTeX] VIQR pre-processor wrotten in (Xe)TeX ?

2011-11-24 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Andrew Cunningham wrote: Word final vowels with punctuation following, e.g. full stop, question mark. Understood, thank you Andrew. Yes, some of these crept into the original version : fortunately I spotted them before they went to print. Philip Taylor

Re: [XeTeX] VIQR pre-processor wrotten in (Xe)TeX ?

2011-11-25 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Ross Moore wrote: At least here we have \.space (since '.' has catcode 12, not 11). So it should be possible to modify the definition of \.{ } within the NFSS processing of \. to assign a special meaning. This is coding that could be easily included within Xunicode.sty , but applied only

Re: [XeTeX] VIQR pre-processor wrotten in (Xe)TeX ?

2011-11-25 Thread Philip TAYLOR
would also not have software installation privileges. Thus direct input of VIQR, and saving /as/ VIQR, is, for her, the simplest solution, and it then becomes my responsibility to accept her VIQR and convert it to Unicode within XeTeX. Philip Taylor

Re: [XeTeX] VIQR pre-processor wrotten in (Xe)TeX ?

2011-11-25 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Cảm ơn, Minh : I have Unikey running -- it is just a question of getting my wife to translate the buttons for me ! ** Phil. Quang Minh Nguyen ()阮光明 wrote: On a Windows machine, I think Unikey is the way to go. You don't need to install it, it's a stand alone exe, so no need to have

Re: [XeTeX] VIQR pre-processor wrotten in (Xe)TeX ?

2011-11-25 Thread Philip TAYLOR
name demonstrates exactly the problem : something that TeX cannot accomplish without special fonts, since it has no primitive for positioning two diacritics over a single character. Philip Taylor -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc

Re: [XeTeX] VIQR pre-processor wrotten in (Xe)TeX ?

2011-11-26 Thread Philip TAYLOR
MY thanks to all who have offered helpful suggestions in VIQR. Unikey looks promising as an IME (I am waiting for my wife to tell me what the buttons say !), and a list member has kindly offered off-list to have a go at creating a TECkit map as and when he has time. So let us not expend further

Re: [XeTeX] Diacritics in color (was Re: XETEX cannot access OpenType features in PUA?)

2011-11-29 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Aleksandr Andreev wrote: Mezenets Unicode is a font I'm developing for Znamenny neumatic notation Oohhh, this is exciting : [p]nuematic notation as in [p]neumes and as in [p]neumatic music ? Will this be a first for TeX, if you succeed ? Philip Taylor

[XeTeX] XeTeX, XeTeXpicfile, and counter-intuitive behaviour

2011-12-01 Thread Philip TAYLOR
...rces/Images/TAR-2.pdf width \hsize \relax H E L P !!! Philip Taylor -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, XeTeXpicfile, and counter-intuitive behaviour

2011-12-01 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Paul Isambert wrote: Use \XeTeXpdffile ... Sounds very sane, Paul, but then why does \XeTeXpicfile say ! Unable to load picture or PDF file Surely if it cannot handle PDF files, it would just say ! Unable to load picture ... and keep cool :) Easy to say if you

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, XeTeXpicfile, and counter-intuitive behaviour

2011-12-01 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Zdenek Wagner wrote: 2011/12/1 Philip TAYLORp.tay...@rhul.ac.uk: P.S. But what about the fact that the \vfill \eject is ignored if no text precedes the \XeTeXpicfile ? What is \XeTeXpicfile from the TeX point of view? \vfil is a discardable element thus it seems that \XeTeXpicfile is also

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, XeTeXpicfile, and counter-intuitive behaviour

2011-12-01 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Paul Isambert wrote: Le 01/12/2011 13:13, Philip TAYLOR a écrit : P.S. But what about the fact that the \vfill \eject is ignored if no text precedes the \XeTeXpicfile ? It seems to be a particular case of the situation where a \special is alone on its page. I don't know what TeX

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, XeTeXpicfile, and counter-intuitive behaviour

2011-12-01 Thread Philip TAYLOR
The behaviour is even stranger than I thought. Used unadorned, \XeTeXpicfile introduces a significant right shift for all text that follows it on the current page; concealed within a \centerline, all is well yet concealed within braces the artifact remains (so it is not a scoping issue).

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, XeTeXpicfile, and counter-intuitive behaviour

2011-12-01 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Sorry, please read that as \XeTeXpdffile -- not tested with \XeTeXpicfile, which I will now do. Philip TAYLOR wrote: The behaviour is even stranger than I thought. Used unadorned, \XeTeXpicfile introduces a significant right shift for all text that follows it on the current page; concealed

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, XeTeXpicfile, and counter-intuitive behaviour

2011-12-01 Thread Philip TAYLOR
of \XeTeXpdffile. Anyhow, this one must wait until I have removed all the dross. Philip Taylor -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] Diacritics in color

2011-12-01 Thread Philip TAYLOR
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011, Khaled Hosny wrote: Suppose someone types f\textcolor{red}{f} In this case FireFox colourises half of resulting ff ligatures (1/3 in ffi etc), And if you look at the rendered output, is there a single ff ligature-digraph glyph, or two f glyphs kerned ? Philip

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, XeTeXpicfile, and counter-intuitive behaviour

2011-12-01 Thread Philip TAYLOR
with the path to a non-existence JPG, and ! Unable to load picture or PDF file when it is called with the path to a most-definitely-existent PDF must certainly be one of the most confusing things that he will have encountered in his life. Philip Taylor

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, XeTeXpicfile, and counter-intuitive behaviour

2011-12-01 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Heiko Oberdiek wrote: It's your choice to use low level internals. Higher level interfaces are already written and some can also be used with plain TeX: \input miniltx \def\Gin@driver{xetex.def} \input graphicx.sty \resetatcatcode \noindent \includegraphics[width=\hsize]{s1.png} \vfil

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, XeTeXpicfile, and counter-intuitive behaviour

2011-12-01 Thread Philip TAYLOR
and * that they should be used inside a \hbox to avoid trouble with discarded items at the top of a page. That would indeed be a great help. Philip Taylor [1] http://tex.loria.fr/moteurs/etex_ref.html -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, XeTeXpicfile, and counter-intuitive behaviour

2011-12-01 Thread Philip TAYLOR
. Philip Taylor % !TeX Program=XeTeX \def \onehalf {0.5} \def \twothirds {0.66} \newdimen \innermargin \newdimen \outermargin \newdimen \uppermargin \newdimen \lowermargin \newdimen \cropwidth \newdimen \cropheight \newdimen \Knuthoffset \pdfpagewidth = 210 mm \pdfpageheight = 297mm

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, XeTeXpicfile, and counter-intuitive behaviour

2011-12-01 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Heiko Oberdiek wrote: On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 06:06:13PM +, Philip TAYLOR wrote: Heiko Oberdiek wrote: Because they are solving those problems for you and others now and in the future. That is one of the main reasons for a package, providing an easier interface for tricky low level

Re: [XeTeX] polyglossia, right alignment is not correct

2011-12-13 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Sorry, list : this was meant to go to Dominik, not everyone ... ** Phil. Philip TAYLOR wrote: Ah, Dominik, you mad mad early adopter : I shall be adopting TeX Live 2011 only when they announce that it is frozen in order to start work on TeX Live 2012

[XeTeX] Typographic question : quotation marks and apostrophes

2011-12-15 Thread Philip TAYLOR
), the apostrophe of weaver’s/weavers’ is the same Unicode character as the closing quotation mark of windows’. Should it be ? Philip Taylor -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] Typographic question : quotation marks and apostrophes

2011-12-15 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Thank you, Jonathan (but I really do wish the answer had been no : it is far to easy to mis-parse the author's text). Philip Taylor Jonathan Kew wrote: In Two wide ‘weaver’s windows’, usually found on the ground floor (which could equally well be Two wide ‘weavers’ windows’, usually

Re: [XeTeX] Typographic question : quotation marks and apostrophes

2011-12-15 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Zdenek Wagner wrote: This convention is not used in the Czech language With the greatest respect, Zdeněk, I do not necessarily agree. Please take a look at Bible: Písmo svaté Starého a Nového zákona včetně deuterokanonických knih, Česká biblická společnost: Praha 1985. [tzv. Ekumenický

Re: [XeTeX] Typographic question : quotation marks and apostrophes

2011-12-15 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Philip TAYLOR wrote: With the greatest respect, Zdeněk, I do not necessarily agree. Please take a look at Bible: Písmo svaté Starého a Nového zákona včetně deuterokanonických knih, Česká biblická společnost: Praha 1985. [tzv. Ekumenický překlad] Well worth comparing this with the Czech

Re: [XeTeX] Overfull \hbox when using inline math scripts

2011-12-16 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Zdenek Wagner wrote: You should start with \tolerance=. In such a case you should not have overfull boxes (if you still have them, some changes in the text may be needed). After this run you find the highest badness of the underfull box. Set \tolerance to this value and \hbadness to one

[XeTeX] XeTeX does not define the \XeTeX macro.

2011-12-21 Thread Philip TAYLOR
The following code fragment, from plain XeTeX source, results in an undefined control sequence : \XeTeX message. Where is \XeTeX canonically defined, please ? Philip Taylor \noindent {\smallit Typeset using Jonathan Kew’s \XeTeX\ in Janusz M Nowacki’s {\smallrmat Antykwa Toruńska

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX does not define the \XeTeX macro.

2011-12-21 Thread Philip TAYLOR
answers given, assume the Universe of Discourse to be Plain TeX (or Plain PdfTeX, or Plain XeTeX, or Plain anyTeX). Philip Taylor -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX does not define the \XeTeX macro.

2011-12-21 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Ulrike Fischer wrote: My name is Ulrike. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. Sincere apologies, Ulrike. I saw that you wanted to use plain. But you didn't ask how to get the logo with plain but Where is \XeTeX canonically defined. I assumed as a plain user you would be able to look in

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX does not define the \XeTeX macro.

2011-12-21 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Heiko Oberdiek wrote: Unless you are using iniTeX it's probably a bug. In the latest version I can't reproduce it, however the latest version isn't yet on CTAN. I send it off-list to you, thus you can even use it with iniTeX (xetex --ini): \catcode`\{=1 \catcode`\}=2 % ... and other settings

[XeTeX] TeXworks XeTeX : Pinyin u-with-third-tone

2012-01-03 Thread Philip TAYLOR
by any reader of Pinyin, but is not really the right character for the job. Philip Taylor -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] TeXworks XeTeX : Pinyin u-with-third-tone

2012-01-04 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Daniel Greenhoe wrote: Wouldn't a simple \v{u} render sufficient quality? Reinhard Kotucha wrote : I suppose that the idea was to use \v{u} in order to compose the glyph and am sure that you don't need LaTeX in order to achieve this. You are both quite correct, it almost certainly

Re: [XeTeX] Import Sanskrit Text from CSV or Excel to XeLaTeX

2012-01-08 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Herbert Schulz wrote: Another inquiry... I've got TL2011, via the MacTeX installer, with all updates and there is no exceltex program or package. Is that a Windows only item? Jim Hefferon, him say : TeX Live -this package is not in TeX Live- Philip Taylor

Re: [XeTeX] genealogical trees

2012-01-28 Thread Philip TAYLOR
I can send you the code I use to produce one, but it's TeX, not LaTeX. Of any use/interest ? http://tex-consultants.org.uk/projects/Joan/Genealogy-2011.pdf Philip Taylor Jacobo Myerston wrote: I was wondering if somebody knows a latex package to represent genealogical

[XeTeX] XeTeX and code page 65001

2012-02-03 Thread Philip TAYLOR
(Win/XP's number for UTF-8) so that I can see the accented e in Natércia's name correctly, I get instead the above end of file message. Can anyone hazard a guess as to why ? Philip Taylor -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc

Re: [XeTeX] New font from Brill

2012-02-03 Thread Philip TAYLOR
. None of these fonts may be redistributed to others, nor may they be sold, without prior written consent from BRILL. It will certain be informative to follow this link and to find out whether Brill would propose to charge a licence fee for the usage you have in mind. Philip Taylor

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX and code page 65001

2012-02-03 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Peter Dyballa wrote: Am 3.2.2012 um 12:58 schrieb Philip TAYLOR: Can anyone hazard a guess as to why ? Did you look into the LOG file? Yes, just shows end of file. Did you load polyglossia and fontspec? No : this is pure XeTeX, not XeLaTeX or any other extension other than those provided

Re: [XeTeX] New font from Brill

2012-02-06 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Pander wrote: The email address does not exist. There would appear to be a not-inconsiderable element of verisimilitude in that assertion. Philip Taylor -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX and code page 65001

2012-02-08 Thread Philip TAYLOR
, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9997.4 (Web2C 2010) restricted \write18 enabled. **\relax entering extended mode *é ! Emergency stop. * \relax No pages of output. Transcript written on texput.log. As you can see, the é, when entered in code page 65001, is interpreted as a Ctrl-z. Philip Taylor

Re: [XeTeX] Running footnotes

2012-02-09 Thread Philip TAYLOR
- years ahead of the PC, the much-vaunted Finder is no better than Windows Search ? Do these manufacturers vie with each other to see who can produce the cr@ppiest code ?! Philip Taylor -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http

Re: [XeTeX] Using different fonts for devanagari and latin characters

2012-02-12 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Zdenek Wagner wrote: I am not the one who decides what can be included in TL and what cannot. Authors can decide how their packages can be used and maintainers of distributions have their own right to decide what to include. I wanted to write a useful answer explaining why the package is not

Re: [XeTeX] Using different fonts for devanagari and latin characters

2012-02-12 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Zdenek Wagner wrote: The author has right to decide how his package can be used. If people are discouraged to distribute it, TL maintainers feel discouraged and do not distribute it. But Mike does not seek to discourage people from distributing it, Zdeněk : he seeks only to discourage them

Re: [XeTeX] How do mapping files affect hyphenation?

2012-02-24 Thread Philip TAYLOR
I think that Jonathan has different kind of mapping in mind. First macros are expanded (active characters will be expanded at the very same time). And expandable primitives (such as \if) will also be expanded at this time. Philip Taylor

Re: [XeTeX] List of ligatures in a font

2012-03-15 Thread Philip TAYLOR
\defaultfontfeatures {Mapping=tex-text} ? Could an expert advise, please ? Philip Taylor -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] List of ligatures in a font

2012-03-15 Thread Philip TAYLOR
msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: [...] Here we go again... C'est-à-dire ?! -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] List of ligatures in a font

2012-03-15 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Herbert Schulz wrote: That command is defined in the fontspec package used in xelatex processing. I'm not sure how, or even if, you can call it in Plain xetex. Oh. I /need/ it ! Any Plain XeTeXers able to advise, please ? ** Phil. --

Re: [XeTeX] List of ligatures in a font

2012-03-15 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Jonathan Kew wrote: If you want to use the mapping (to convert -- to en-dash, `` to double-open-quote, etc) in plain xetex, you can specify it directly when loading fonts, as in \font\myromanfont = Times New Roman:mapping=tex-text at 11pt (or wrap this up in whatever custom TeX macros

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, XeTeXpicfile, and transparency

2012-03-16 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Peter Dyballa wrote: Am 16.3.2012 um 13:32 schrieb Philip TAYLOR: If I were to want to insert an image with (say) 90% transparency (i.e., 10% opacity), how might I best go about this ? In ConTeXt. Universe of Discourse : Plain XeTeX (as stated previously

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, XeTeXpicfile, and transparency

2012-03-16 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Peter Dyballa wrote: Am 16.3.2012 um 14:28 schrieb Philip TAYLOR: Universe of Discourse : Plain XeTeX (as stated previously). I don't know what this is meant to express, That I use XeTeX; I do not use XeLaTeX, ConTeXt or any other higher-level interface. I use the raw engine

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, XeTeXpicfile, and transparency

2012-03-16 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Jonathan Kew wrote: This would depend on the output driver's capabilities - xetex doesn't have any built-in magic to do this, but I wouldn't be surprised if xdvipdfmx supports \special{}s that can achieve it. Possibly a \special before the \XeTeXpdffile command to set up transparency, and

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, XeTeXpicfile, and transparency

2012-03-16 Thread Philip TAYLOR
msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: [...]and if you're comfortable working in a Plain TeX environment, the package source code may be easier to understand than the engine source code. Yes, thank you for the suggestion, Mathew : much appreciated. ** Phil.

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, XeTeXpicfile, and transparency

2012-03-16 Thread Philip TAYLOR
and for Plain TeX. Philip Taylor -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] input method under windows

2012-03-23 Thread Philip TAYLOR
, with full Unicode support. Philip Taylor -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX and SIunitx

2012-06-12 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Tobias Schoel wrote: What does normalise mean with angstrom and ohm? Perhaps as per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence#Normalization Philip Taylor -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman

Re: [XeTeX] Can't compile Chinese in Mountain Lion OS X

2012-07-29 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Alan Hoenig wrote: Any insight you can provide will put me in your debt FOREVER! Thanks... FOREVER is a very long time, Alan :-) ** Phil. -- MIL-05991/237/2012-B : Any loss of data or other computer malfunction resulting directly or indirectly from the use of Linux will be regarded as a

Re: [XeTeX] The future of XeTeX

2012-07-30 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Adam Twardoch (List) wrote: I believe that the TeX world needs a policy on naming engine-specific commands. This is akin to the CSS browser-specific prefixes, such as -webkit-text-security or -moz-font-features. XeTeX already does this: all the XeTeX-specific commands are prefixed with XeTeX.

Re: [XeTeX] The future of XeTeX

2012-07-30 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Martin Schröder wrote: That's why you should use ConTeXt or LaTeX, which will isolate your document from differences in the engine. Yes, and I should drive an automatic so I don't have to worry about which gear I should be in. In fact, I should employ a chauffeur, so I don't have to worry

Re: [XeTeX] The future of XeTeX

2012-07-30 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Martin Schröder wrote: You are right. Do a 'texdoc xetex' and 'texdoc luatex' and compare. :-) E.g. polyglossia does not work with LuaTeX (yet). OK, fears concerned. But of course polyglossia is a macro package; do you happen to know what is different at the TeX/XeTeX/LuaTeX primitive

Re: [XeTeX] The future of XeTeX

2012-07-30 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Joel C. Salomon wrote: I know for a fact that LuaTeX enables features of OpenType Math fonts that XeTeX does not. See, e.g., https://github.com/wspr/unicode-math/issues/40. And, of course, there are XeTeX-specific features (most prominently interchartoks) which LuaTeX does not implement.

Re: [XeTeX] The future of XeTeX

2012-07-31 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Khaled Hosny wrote: I wish people could just ignore what Mr Dyballa writes, as most of time he has absolutely no idea what he is talking about. /Ad hominem/ attacks, justified or not, reflect more badly on those levelling the accusation than they do on the individual named. Philip Taylor

Re: [XeTeX] The future of XeTeX

2012-07-31 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Dominik Wujastyk wrote: How nasty of you, Phil to insult Khaled for rebuking Dyballa. Ooops! What does that say about me? ... Well, as my good friend Mr Churchill might have said (had he not been too busy mongering), This is the depth of level down to which I will not sink ** P.

Re: [XeTeX] The future of XeTeX

2012-08-01 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Ulrike Fischer wrote: Well some days ago I tried to use otfinst.py. The version on CTAN mixes tabs and spaces and used an obsolete syntax for print. My python didn't like both. To correct the second was not so difficult, but the first was really trying. How to you get correct identation when

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