[XeTeX] XeTeX wish list ...
I do not know whether there is such a thing, but if there is, may I add an entry ? Background: I have (XeTeX) code which adds bleed and crop marks (strictly speaking, bleed and trim marks) to an existing multipage PDF. The code is stored in a file called "Add bleed + cropmarks.tex". When run, it asks the user for the name of the PDF file to be used as input, but of course the resulting PDF output file is always called "Add bleed + cropmarks.pdf". Request : Would it be possible to enhance XeTeX such one could write (e.g.,) \XeTeXpdffile = "Hội-An lunch menu with bleed and crop marks" before any data has been entered on the MVL, and then have the output file name be taken from \XeTeXpdffile ? If \XeTeXpdffilename were set only after data had entered the MVL, it would be completely acceptable for the output file name to be taken from \jobname as at present. It would (IMHO) be more elegant to make \jobname read/write, but that would introduce an unnecessary deviation from TeX. -- Philip Taylor This email, its contents and any attachments are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. In certain circumstances, it may also be subject to legal privilege. Any unauthorised use, disclosure, or copying is not permitted. If you have received this email in error, please notify us and immediately and permanently delete it. Any views or opinions expressed in personal emails are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Royal Holloway, University of London. It is your responsibility to ensure that this email and any attachments are virus free.
Re: [XeTeX] which TeX-based software
Mojca Miklavec wrote: It is of course completely free and opensources, no licences (that is also true for nearly all TeX anyway). No licence ? It will never get into TeX Live then :-) From https://tug.org/texlive/LICENSE.TL: LICENSING FOR NEW PACKAGES: Finally, we are often asked what licence to use for new work. To be considered for inclusion on TeX Live, a package must use a free software licence [...] -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
Re: [XeTeX] which TeX-based software
Carrs wrote: Hi, a newbie question. I would like advice on which TeX-based software it would be best to learn in detail for my typesetting plans. So far, I have learned a little TeX and a little LaTeX, but not enough of either to tell me which will work best for me. The features I want to be able to typeset are: [many and complex] XeTeX can do all of these, but the intellectual effort required of a beginner is likely to prove nigh unsurmountable. I expect that XaLaTeX can do the same with somewhat less intellectual input, but as I never use LaTeX in any guise I am not the best person to advise. Philip Taylor -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
[XeTeX] Could Adobe Photoshop's "blending options" for text be supported in a future {Pdf|Xe}TeX variant
I have been playing with Adobe Photoshop's "blending options" for text recently, adding a gold or metallic texture to otherwise plain text. The results are visually very striking, and I therefore began to wonder whether similar functionality might one day be added to Pdf/XeTeX, in the former case natively and in the latter case via \specials and an extended (x)dvipdfm(x) driver. Three examples of the sorts of effect I have in mind can be seen at : https://www.dropbox.com/s/b7a1383rb1dx2vp/Ao%20dais.pdf?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/7s6s7n9w8popiyg/MENU%20001%20new%20ellipse.pdf?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/smmcjy9zuuxa1nu/MENU%20001%20%28metallic%20gold%20text%20demo%29.pdf?dl=0 I would be interested in others' reactions to this. Philip Taylor -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
Re: [XeTeX] Query : obtain font name when opening font by filename ?
Just in case anyone found the earlier code interesting, here is
an improved version that (a) does not miss every second font (!)
and (b) does its best to normalise font heights.
% !TeX Program = XeTeX
\magnification
\magstep 4
\vsize
= 210 true mm
\hsize
= 297 true mm
\pdfpagewidth
= \hsize
\pdfpageheight
= \vsize
\advance
\hoffset by -1 true in
\advance
\voffset by -1 true in
\newdimen
\margin
\margin
= 1 cm
\advance
\hsize by -2 \margin
\advance
\vsize by -2 \margin
\advance
\hoffset by \margin
\advance
\voffset by \margin
\baselineskip
= 1,5 \baselineskip
\parindent
0 pt
\font \tenrm = "Gill Sans MT Condensed"
\newdimen
\tenpt
\tenpt
= 10 pt
\def
\process #1%
{%
\def
\sampler ##1{\hbox to 0,6 \hsize {\font \thisfont = "[#1]" at
##1\thisfont Sample / SAMPLE\hfil}}%
\setbox 0 = \sampler \tenpt %
\dimen
0 = \tenpt
\divide
\dimen 0 by \numexpr \dimexpr 0,001 \ht 0 \relax \relax
\multiply
\dimen 0 by \numexpr \dimexpr 0,001 \tenpt \relax \relax
\sampler {\dimen 0 }%
{\rm #1}
}
\begingroup
\catcode `\_ = \catcode `\@
\obeylines
\everypar = {\shewfont}
\def \shewfont #1
{%
\process {#1}
}%
\input d:/fonts.txt %
\endgroup
\end
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[XeTeX] Query : obtain font name when opening font by filename ?
Dear fellow XeTeX users --
The following short program iterates through a list of all system
fonts (already indexed into D:\Fonts.txt) and displays a short
sample text followed by the font filename. I would prefer it if
the font filename could be replaced by the actual font name by
which the font is known to the system, but I can find no
appropriate primitive in the output from "TeXdoc XeTeX"; can
anyone help, please ?
Philip Taylor
% !TeX Program=XeTeX
\magnification
\magstep 4
\vsize =
210 true mm
\hsize =
297 true mm
\pdfpagewidth
= \hsize
\pdfpageheight
= \vsize
\advance
\hoffset by -1 true in
\advance
\voffset by -1 true in
\newdimen
\margin
\margin =
1 cm
\advance
\hsize by -2 \margin
\advance
\vsize by -2 \margin
\advance
\hoffset by \margin
\advance
\voffset by \margin
\parindent
0 pt
\begingroup
\catcode `\_ = \catcode `\@
\everypar = {\shewfont}
\obeylines \def \shewfont #1
{\hbox to 0,5 \hsize {\font \thisfont = "[#1]" at 10 pt \thisfont
Sample / SAMPLE\hfil }{\rm}}\par%
\input
d:/fonts.txt
\endgroup
\end
Where
D:/Fonts.txt starts :
Adobe-Caslon-Bold-Italic.otf
Adobe-Caslon-Bold.otf
Adobe-Caslon-Italic.otf
Adobe-Caslon-Semibold-Italic.otf
Adobe-Caslon-Semibold.otf
Adobe-Caslon.otf
AGaramondPro-Bold.otf
AGaramondPro-BoldItalic.otf
AGaramondPro-Italic.otf
AGaramondPro-Regular.otf
...
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Re: [XeTeX] Xetex equiv to luatex's \directlua{}
maxwell wrote: I'm just finishing up a project that involved typesetting text in several languages, while outputting an XML file that defined in X/Y coordinates the position and size of the bounding box surrounding each line of text in the PDF. [...] [I]s there any way I could have done something similar using xetex? That is, called another programming language to output box positions and sizes. I suppose it's possible to write to an XML file in xetex natively, but I'm not sure how I could get the positions and sizes of boxes. Is it possible that these three PdfTeX/XeTeX primitives might help : \pdfsavepos Saves the current location of the page in the typesetting stream. \pdflastxpos Retrieves the horizontal position saved by \pdfsavepos. \pdflastypos Retrieves the vertical position saved by \pdfsavepos. Philip Taylor -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
Re: [XeTeX] Stroking a TeX rule in XeTeX
Many thanks, ZdenÄk. For the benefit of both posterity and
non-CZ speakers, I append Google's translation of your article :
** Phil.
Print outline of the font in PDF
Zdenek Wagner
The article shows the possibility of rendering the contour
of the font by direct use of the operator
PDF. It explains how to use the family of drivers (x) dvipdfm (x)
also in pdfTEX. Possible complications are mentioned and the case can not be
stated
use the method.
Keywords
PDF, font contours, font fill, initials, Open Type, Type 1
1. Introduction
Prints of some type, especially advertising, but also
fiction, occasionally require it
parts of the text were highlighted in a less usual
way. An example of such
the highlight is the initials at the beginning of
this paragraph. It is not printed with a special font,
it is a TEX Gyre Adventor wild-type font. The difference lies in the fact,
that we did not print the character in the usual way, but we
let the PDF show the outline,
which we
filled in a different color. This is enabled by fonts in formats
Type 1 and OpenType define characters using the outline that
are in normal print
filled in by the
selected color. We just used another way of rendering, which
we will describe in detail below.
2. Display the font contour in PDF
When viewing the contour of the font, we will use the
special command to
output
directly to PDF operators. As with PostScript, there are parameters
before the name of the operator.
In the PDF documentation [1] we find Tr operator, whose
description is not very comprehensible.
And this operator determines how the font is displayed.
The usual value of 0 causes a classic fill as you see it
virtually in
of all texts. Setting a value of 1 will show the outline without fill,
value 2
allows the contour to be displayed in one
color and the fill in another. Set the line thickness
operator w, with the unit being a big point. Set the color either
operator g and G (gray, the operator has one parameter), or
rg and RG (color
RGB space, three parameters), or k and K (CMYK color space,
four parameters).
Operators written in small letters set the fill color,
operators
in
capital letters, determine the color of the line. The initiator has the
opening paragraph
setting 2 Tr .8 w 0 .1 1 .1 k .8 1 0 0 K. Before this
setting
the graphical state is stored by the operator q, and
after printing the initials, the graphical state is
restored
operator Q. Everything looks very simple. So let us explain how it is mentioned
we will get the commands to PDF.
2.1. Contour view in driver (x) dvipdfm (x)
We start with the simpler case of the driver family (x)
dvipdfm (x) [2].
The
effect can also be used in X ETEX. The following demonstration
We will print out a few words in outline.
we created it with a command
{\ centering \ Large \ fontfamily {qag} \ bfseries
Several \ special {pdf: code q 2 Tr 0.7 w 0 .5 .5 .05 k
1 1 0 .1 K}
words \ special {pdf: code 0 0 1 0 k 1 0 1 .1 K}
we will print \ special {pdf: code Q} in outline. \ par}
In older versions of driver (x), dvipdfm (x) is not
available in the \ special command
the code function, but only the put, but which inserts
the content between q and Q, that is
the desired
effect is lost. It can be remedied by a simple trick, when these
automatically
Inserted operators are eliminated by a paired
operator. In that case
instead of \ special {pdf: code q 2 Tr}, we will write
the modified code with the added operators
\
special {pdf: Put Q q 2 Tr q}. The command \ special {pdf: put Q} none
does not need modification.
2.2. Outline view in pdfTEX
Inspired by the previous example, we write the code
mechanically using the primitive
\ pdfliteral [3] as follows:
{\ centering \ Large \ fontfamily {qag} \ bfseries
One \ pdfliteral {q 2 Tr 0.7 w 0 0 1 0 k ~ 1 0 1 .1 K}
word \ pdfliteral {Q} different. \ par}
However,
the result does not meet our expectations. The word will be otherwise overwritten
and, in addition, the rate of the remainder of
the article is
[XeTeX] Stroking a TeX rule in XeTeX
The following code applies a 3 pt blue stroke to red-filled glyphs, but
has the undesirable side-effect of changing the colour of TeX rules to
the stroke colour. Is it possible, does anyone know, to control the
stroke and fill colour of TeX rules (a) independently, and (b)
orthogonally to that of TeX glyphs ?
Philip Taylor
% !TeX Program=XeTeX
\magnification 4096
\hsize = 210 true mm
\vsize = 297 true mm
\pdfpagewidth = \hsize
\pdfpageheight = \vsize
\advance \hoffset by -1 true in
\advance \voffset by -1 true in
\font \tenrm = "Calibri Bold"
\let \Hrule = \hrule
\let \Vrule = \vrule
\def \hrule {\Hrule height 4 true pt depth 4 true pt}
\def \vrule {\Vrule width 8 true pt}
\topskip 0 pt plus 1 fill
\special{pdf:bcolor [1.0 0.0 0.0] [0.0 0.0 1.0]} % first defines fill
colour, second stroke colour
\special{pdf:literal direct 0.3 w 2 Tr} stroke width followed by
rendering mode
\centerline
{%
\vbox spread 1 pc
\bgroup
\hsize = 0,210 \hsize
\hrule
\vss
\hbox to \hsize {\vrule \hss Hello\hss \vrule}
\vss
\hrule
\egroup
}
\end
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Re: [XeTeX] Devanagari ASCII to Unicode mapping
Daniel Greenhoe wrote: I think the conclusion is that I was going about the problem the wrong way---that there is no one-to-one mapping between the Devanagari ASCII font and unicode font. Rather, it is many-to-one. Is the problem not, in fact, that there is not one "Devanagari ASCII font" but rather many, for each of which there is potentially a different mapping required ? Philip Taylor -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
Re: [XeTeX] "typeset by bidi" message
Peter Wilson wrote:
I think that the "Typeset by the bidi package" message is much too
modest. It should read something along the lines "Typeset by the bidi
package developed by Vafa Khalighi for over 12 years without any
funding or donations." In fact I think that every class/package used
in a document should typeset similar wording about itself and its
provenance on the top of the first page of any (All)TeX document. Many
classes and packages have been developed over many more than 12 years,
particularly TeX and LaTeX.
As \usepackage is under the control of the LaTeX team, could its
behaviour not be amended to check if #1 = "bidi", and if so, interpolate
"[logo=off] unless "[logo=on]" is already present ?
Philip Taylor
\usepackage[logo=off]{bidi}
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