Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation?

2021-08-23 Thread Doug McKenna
George - Thanks! - Doug McK. From: "George N. White III" To: "xetex" Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2021 8:14:58 AM Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation? On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 at 22:46, Doug McKenna < [ mailto:d...@ma

Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation?

2021-08-21 Thread Doug McKenna
ixed-width OpenType/TrueType font distributed with TeXLive that would work? Doug McKenna Mathemaesthetics, Inc. - Original Message - From: "news3" To: "xetex" Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2021 10:39:25 AM Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every T

Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation?

2021-08-21 Thread Doug McKenna
s the case. All I want is for the computer-generated LaTeX file "to just work" out of the box (so to speak), so that a naive user isn't faced with an error message the first time they typeset it with something like TeXShop. Doug McKenna Mathemaesthetics, Inc.

[XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation?

2021-08-20 Thread Doug McKenna
or TeXLive or whatever that one can rely upon to be available for placing this particular glyph in a final PDF file? What would be the correct incantation to doing so? Thanks. Doug McKenna Mathemaesthetics, Inc.

Re: [XeTeX] A LaTeX Unicode initialization desire/question/suggestion

2020-01-12 Thread Doug McKenna
ts for extended >| TeX features in the draft ltnews31 which will be part of next week's >| latex-dev release, but you can see the sources now at >| >| Primitive Requirements: >| https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/blob/develop/base/doc/ltnews31.tex#L596 >| >| see also >| >| Improved load-times for expl3: >| https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/blob/develop/base/doc/ltnews31.tex#L169 >| >| on the additional items preloaded in the format. Many thanks! This is very helpful. Doug McKenna Mathemaesthetics, Inc.

Re: [XeTeX] [EXT] A LaTeX Unicode initialization desire/question/suggestion

2020-01-12 Thread Doug McKenna
tables twice, especially when the second time (reading this file) rather inefficiently takes 30 times longer than the first, and accomplishes nothing new. Thanks for thinking about my questions, I appreciate it. Doug McKenna

Re: [XeTeX] [EXT] A LaTeX Unicode initialization desire/question/suggestion

2020-01-11 Thread Doug McKenna
s of TeX code added to the file appears to me to solve the problem, with no downside to creating the XeTeX LaTeX format. Doug McKenna Mathemaesthetics, Inc.

[XeTeX] A LaTeX Unicode initialization desire/question/suggestion

2020-01-10 Thread Doug McKenna
ny downsides to this minor change that I'm missing? Is there a better name for the primitive? What can I do to encourage that the above test be officially added to "load-unicode-data.tex"? Doug McKenna Mathemaesthetics, Inc.

[XeTeX] Clarification on XeTeX documentation

2019-12-12 Thread Doug McKenna
t is a proper legal value for a ? Alternatively, should be changed in this documentation to something less ambiguous, such as or or ? Doug McKenna Mathemaesthetics, Inc.

[XeTeX] How much time to build LaTeX format for XeTeX

2019-12-05 Thread Doug McKenna
is negligible, though I don't really know. - Doug McKenna

Re: [XeTeX] Math class initialization in Unicde-aware engine

2019-12-02 Thread Doug McKenna
combining marks (Unicode 'M') should be entered into \Umathcode as TeX class 7; if the latter, then presumably not, though it's not clear why a math variable name can't have a combining mark. - Doug McKenna

Re: [XeTeX] Math class initialization in Unicde-aware engine

2019-12-01 Thread Doug McKenna
installed in \lccode and/or \uccode? Also, there's a confusing typo ("can"?) in - \lccode and \uccode for all of class "Lt" (title case letters) to the lower can upper case mappings (or if not given to the code point itself) Should "can' be "and/or"? Doug McKenna

Re: [XeTeX] Math class initialization in Unicde-aware engine

2019-11-27 Thread Doug McKenna
, I'm not sure without looking at its code. Doug McKenna From: "Ross Moore" To: "xetex" Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 5:16:44 PM Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Math class initialization in Unicde-aware engine Hi Joe, Doug On 28 Nov 2019, at 10:27 am, Joseph Wright <

[XeTeX] Math class initialization in Unicde-aware engine

2019-11-27 Thread Doug McKenna
zation of a Unicode-aware engine, yet the comments in load-unicode-math-classes.tex don't say one way or the other, and it appears to me that the parsing code is ignoring it. The ReadMe.md file <https://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/generic/unicode-data> is also deficient in answering this question. TIA, Doug McKenna

Re: [XeTeX] Lowercase Unicode code points in hyphenation patterns

2019-11-24 Thread Doug McKenna
Is xgreek.sty loaded as part of creating the LaTeX format? If not, my understanding is that its corrections wouldn't affect any of the hyphenation patterns installed from xetex.ini during the format build. Perhaps this doesn't matter. - Doug McKenna - Original Message - From: "

[XeTeX] Lowercase Unicode code points in hyphenation patterns

2019-11-23 Thread Doug McKenna
X source code to do it. But there are a whole lot of lowercase letters in Unicode, so I'm wondering how XeTeX determines legal lowercase letters for initial pattern files? I've tried looking at some version of the xetex.web code, but without illumination, I'm afraid. TIA, Doug McKenna

Re: [XeTeX] Hyphenation of strings of more than 63 characters

2016-03-15 Thread Doug McKenna
nd in the arithmetic. FWIW, Doug McKenna - Original Message - From: "Peter Mukunda Pasedach" <peter.pased...@googlemail.com> To: "XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion." <xetex@tug.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 9:13:08 AM Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Hyp

Re: [XeTeX] Latin Modern, from TFM to Unicode

2013-06-12 Thread Doug McKenna
the font can't know the threshold height at which to stop construction. The former means hard coding internal glyph IDs somewhere outside the font, which I'm hoping is not fragile, but worrying might be. Sorry for the reams of details, but I'm trying to be explain my confusion exactly. Doug