On 9/9/2023 4:20 PM, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
Am Sat, 9 Sep 2023 15:39:51 -0400 schrieb Mike Maxwell:
I haven't tried LuaTeX in recent years, but it sounds like if you ran
Burmese through it and used the HarfBuzz shaper instead of the
default(?) shaper, it might work for Burmese.
Yes
eports).
I haven't tried LuaTeX in recent years, but it sounds like if you ran
Burmese through it and used the HarfBuzz shaper instead of the
default(?) shaper, it might work for Burmese.
I'll be interested to hear what you find.
Mike Maxwell
On 9/9/2023 2:29 PM, Andrew Goldstone wrote:
M10-Regular.otf>
thanks for any help,
Antonis.
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ight dimensions.
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Howdy,
Also note that removing the height option from the first image will put the
images side by side.
Yes, I can reproduce this.
Best regards
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On 4/23/2021 4:55 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
The xelatexTR engine used by those files does exactly that...
What is this xelatexTR? I just installed TeXLive 2021, and there
doesn't seem to be any such file.
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On 7/3/2020 2:28 PM, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
There are several options:
1. Dump your own format with your styles. You will have to regenerate
the format after update of any of these style files and you will have to
take care of dependencies
2. Install TeX on a fast disk such as SSD
3.
to re-run them every time I want a PDF of a new version of
my doc (or every time xetex finds a mistake in my doc). Is there no way
to save the results of loading that, so that it could be re-loaded more
quickly next time?
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It should not, it seems to me,
have a glyph. Instead, xetex should break the line or not when it
encounters this code point, and then--regardless of the line
break--delete the character. It's a zero width character, and its
height is irrelevant (unlike a strut), so there's no shape to show.
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On 3/24/2018 6:13 AM, Philip Taylor (RHUoL) wrote:
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
On 2018-03-23 16:44, David Carlisle wrote:
there are several ways to get the box output in classic tex (or xetex)
although perhaps the easiest (and safest in terms of not accidentally
affecting the typeset positions) is to use \showoutput so all boxes
are (somewhat verbosely) logged in the log
algorithms.
Getting TeX to tell me those Y-positions, as well as the vertical size
of the box, was the difficult part. But maybe I was missing something
obvious?
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omeone was looking for these recently was for
checking for plagiarism in student projects/thesis.
I'd suggest contacting them. Their website is
ldc.upenn.edu
There's a "Contact us" tab near the upper right-hand corner of their page.
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iconv can be used to map TSCII to other encodings, but for some reason
it doesn't seem to have ISCII in its reportoire (it does include VISCII,
but that's a legacy Vietnamese encoding).
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On 10/26/2017 5:33 AM, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
If you set the font explicitly the messages disappear:
...
\setmainfont{Scheherazade}[Script=Arabic,ItalicFont=*,BoldFont=*,BoldItalicFont=*]
Thanks, that's the answer I needed!
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ssage.
I looked at the code for the \@@_find_autofonts macro in
fontspec-internal.dtx, but it did not enlighten me.
Maybe I should just not worry...
MWE follows my sig line.
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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\s
wouldn't help anyway.
For the time being, doing the following before bidi is loaded seems to
solve the problem:
-
\let\XeTeX\relax
\let\XeLaTeX\relax
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portability and consistency. The other
side of this, of course, is that they don't automatically benefit from
library updates.
Which brings me back to my original question: will xetex as distributed
in TeXLive 2017 include this harfbuzz update? Or is it too late for
that?
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developers of that font, although I suppose
Martin is the expert on this issue.
I can also take this off-line if that would be more appropriate.
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not clear to me
whether this can get into xetex before the next TeXLive release, given
the schedule here:
https://www.tug.org/texlive/
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k? Either in the font, or in
xetex itself. (There's obviously an issue with the new version of the
font, since earlier versions worked; but given that their copy of xetex
works on this latest font and mine doesn't, it's possible there's also
something amiss with the version of xetex I have.)
Micha
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t need), and the
problem seems to have gone away.
Thank you, Philip, for bringing the above post to my attention!
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should want a .woff file?
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I suppose that might need to be done at
the level of /etc/fonts/local.conf.) Thank you though!
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over TTF fonts fc-list finds two such fonts.
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ts in both proportionally and mono-spaced versions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fira_Sans
I'm not sure what its code point coverage is, nor whether it handles
stacked diacritics; we'll see.
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2016-07-22 20:05 GMT+02:00 maxwell <maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu>:
On 2016-07-22 13:29, maxwell wrote:
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Moral of the story: upgrade fonts before complaining.
I had an opposite experience a few years ago. It was necessary to
downgrade the DejaVu
On 2016-07-22 13:29, maxwell wrote:
The new version of Adobe Acrobat (which I have the misfortune to be
using at my office) is outputting a warning where we didn't used to
get a warning. Namely, it complains about one particular font in our
PDFs. The warning is:
Cannot extract the embedded
I can make a MWE if that would help; I'm just hoping someone else has
already run into this problem and has a work-around :-).
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tex creds are not good):
\usepackage{bidi}
\csname @Latintrue\endcsname
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fontspec seems to be necessary for this bug to happen. And I'm
not actually invoking either bidi or fontspec.
Can someone reproduce this?
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spec gives a warning when I do
\newfontfamily\bengalifont[Script=Bengali]{Nikosh}
unless I change
\newfontscript{Bengali}{bng2,beng}
to
\newfontscript{Bengali}{beng}
in fontspec-xetex.sty.
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ssfully using Script= with the name of a script,
e.g 'Script=Thaana', where Thaana is the name of a script, Dhivehi is
the name of the language that uses the Thaana script.)
Is this font using a non-standard way of tagging scripts? Or am I
misunderstanding the way these codes are supposed to wor
On 2016-06-20 16:20, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
otfinfo --scripts font-file.otf
Thanks, that's what I needed. For some reason otfinfo doesn't show up
with 'apropos' on my machine...
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It may of course be possible that this font supports the Bengali script,
but doesn't explicitly say that. But it makes
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install, I think the only non-default choice we made was to use
'letter' instead of 'a4'.
3) Is this a bug? (meaning should I report it?)
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Will do, thanks!
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a problem.
But surely there are lots of people out there happily using xelatex and
hyperref without any problem, right? Why is this only showing up now?
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Purnendu's original subject line, which got
changed to "XeTeX Digest..." in the last reply.
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-0.2, from the
TeX Live 2015 distro) says it uses Graphite2 v1.2.3. Will the next TeX
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ary/2to3.html
I think the only thing it didn't completely fix in several large
programs we ran through it was the encoding conversion of
stdin/stdout/stderr. As I recall, it has something to do with Python
trying to detect the encoding in the shell
On 2016-01-21 03:11, Stefan Solbrig wrote:
The documentation in the texlive installation contains a document
(xetex-reference.pdf) that describes this in detail. (locate the file
or type "texdoc xetex" if you have texlive installed.)
thanks, that's what I needed!
Mi
documents looking for misplaced diacritics...
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or the other of the places, loading
the bidi bpackage before or after the \captionsetup command (it cannot
be loaded before the caption pkg is loaded), etc.
Did anyone else notice this last year, and if so, has it been fixed in
the 2015 distro?
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On 10/20/2015 9:34 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
On Oct 20, 2015, at 7:55 PM, maxwell <maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu>
wrote:
I've encountered a problem in the interaction between the
longtable, bidi, and caption packages.
>> ...
The longtable environment is like a tabular environment,
that; I _think_ it's to precede the combining
character by a non-breaking space (U+00A0). But I haven't tried that.
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2015-01-17 20:39 GMT+01:00 Mike Maxwell maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu:
...I guess my question is: _If_ a font provides
optical sizes, then presumably telling Fontspec which point size to use
causes it to choose the optical size provided in the font (assuming
in an exact optical point size)? Or does Fontspec
instead magnify/demagnify the glyphs from the document's default point size?
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Scale as I would if I simply specified a larger point size?
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the paragraph; hence the text may seem longer than it needs to be,
but I couldn't get the same bad result if I shortened it much.
Suggestions?
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\fi
* RLBug.xetex
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On 9/27/2014 4:20 PM, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
Your definition is fragile but a robust macro is needed inside
\caption. Use \DeclareRobustCommand instead of \newcommand, the syntax
is the same.
Ah, thanks, I'll try that!
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My definition
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On 2014-09-22 22:04, Axel E. Retif wrote:
On 09/22/2014 08:42 PM, Mike Maxwell wrote:
I guess these jokers haven't heard of Unicode. Are they stuck back in
the 1990s?
Are you and Philip Taylor even aware that you're replying directly to
an arXiv administrator?
I think arXiv and Cornell
to reprocess your submission at your convenience.
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I guess these jokers haven't heard of Unicode. Are they stuck back in the
1990s?
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PDF does subset the font, which is probably not the correct result if
the no subsetting restriction in the font is taken at face value.)
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On 2014-08-27 18:49, maxwell wrote:
On 2014-08-27 18:16, Jonathan Kew wrote:
I'm curious why Ghostscript is being run at all. Is it trying to
convert a PostScript or EPS graphic, when you intended to use a PDF
directly? Maybe one of the users has a different version of the
graphics package
, and that some developers may not realize that (or not
realize the implications).
How do I find the exact license restrictions on a truetype font?
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certainly the sort of thing I was looking for. How did you
extract that? (and from what file?)
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in the Scheherazade font
either, and xdvipdfmx treats that as embeddable.
So I'm not sure in FontForge how to get at the embeddability information
that xdvipdfmx (and Microsoft's font info plugin) is using.
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and as UTF-16; at a guess, the
latter is what Lorna reported in the Windows app (and what I also see in
FontForge) as looking like a Chinese license!
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seem to be the same thread,
and afaict are irrelevant.
We're running the version of xetex that came with TeXLive 2014
(3.14159265-2.6-0.1) on Linux.
Any suggestions as to what I should be looking for?
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and 'which ghostscript' returns v8.70); but at least we have s.t. to
look at.
But--how did you figure this out? I see no mention of
Ghostscript/Postscript in the error msg.
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original?
I don't think so, but I'll certainly check when this other user gets
back (Wednesday).
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create a PDF using pdflatex, and import
that into my xetex file instead of the original jpg. But before I try
all these things, it would be nice to know if someone else has found a
work-around...
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Mike Maxwell (me) wrote:
I'm looking at one of our
jpgs in a text editor, and while I see the string Exif near the
top,
I don't see any jfif-like string.
Stefan Solbrig wrote:
You can find 'JFIF' of tombe.jpg at position 6, meaning, there are
six other bytes before the string.
OK, I can
fill fill fill fillfillfillfi.
} refer to second footnote.\footnote{Another footnote.}
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had the
problem.
Thanks to Bruno for this package, and for responding to my original msg.
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On 2013-02-09 14:34, Mike Maxwell wrote:
On 2/9/2013 6:29 AM, Bruno Le Floch wrote:
I'm the author of morewrites, which has to perform various hacks to go
around the hard limitation
the TeXLive 2013 version =
3.1415926-2.5-0..3-2013060708.)
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On 2014-06-17 11:31, maxwell wrote:
Late last year, I ran into a problem in which I could embed a PDF
v1.4, but not v1.5 (I have not tried this with newer versions of PDFs,
which are now up to 1.7). The problem and its work-around are
described here:
http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/xetex/2012
).
Regards,
Khaled
Afaict, this does not work under the TeXLive 2013 version, at least not
with this publisher's font. Am I missing s.t.?
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and bottom marks, but that
may not be a safe assumption. The problems we've seen so far have been with
stacked diacritics.
And of course there may be a better forum than this to ask this question.
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any revised version of anything
else from
TeXLive 2013.
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looking for this for several hours, I gave up and started working on s.t. else. And found
what I wasn't looking for.
For the record, I think:
\nocite{*}
does what I want.
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On 2013-12-09 11:15, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
A bit off topic, dou you know a good Linux text editor woth properly
implemented bidi algorithm so that I could type multilingual texts?
Yudit (http://www.yudit.org/) claims to be that. I have not used it.
Mike Maxwell
, if the 0..3 part is any indication, xetex is now using
Harfbuzz, correct?
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Anyway, if the 0..3 part is any indication, xetex is now using
Harfbuzz, correct?
Aargh, just noticed that the version information already says this.
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Perhaps you could be more specific?
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if this doesn't work as well in XeTeX
as one might hope.
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by italics (see below),
things get weirder:
I haven't tried this on my Windows/Cygwin machine yet (I'm on another
machine now).
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, but
xelatex reports
! LaTeX error: kernel/key-choice-unknown
!
! Key 'fontspec-renderer/Renderer' accepts only a fixed set of choices.
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On 7/29/2013 10:06 AM, Elliott Roper wrote:
Try this
\setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text,Renderer=ICU]{Charis SIL}
No, afraid that doesn't work either.
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My definition of an interesting universe is
one that has the capacity
version on ctan.org, so I'll give that a shot before I try making the minimal
example.
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table).
Wow, I'm impressed! When will this new XeTeX be coming out? Do I need to wait
for TeXLive 2013?
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problems that will arise later when we
have other sequences of stacked diacritics, which are not given pre-composed forms in the
publisher's font.
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On 12/31/2012 3:02 PM, msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote:
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012, Mike Maxwell wrote:
Dia will also output a .tex file, which uses the tikz package. I tried this,
using \input{filename.tex} in my xelatex file (along with the
\usepackage{tikz} and \usepackage{morewrites}). I get
To finish up this thread:
On 12/31/2012 3:44 PM, msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote:
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012, Mike Maxwell wrote:
Why are you using morewrites?
Because it was running out of places to write to (there's a limit of 16 files,
I understand) without morewrites.
This seems surprising
the latest TexLive 2012 version (XeTeX 3.1415926-2.4-0.9998).
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On Mon, 31 Dec 2012, Mike Maxwell wrote:
Dia will also output a .tex file, which uses the tikz package. I tried this,
using \input{filename.tex} in my xelatex file (along with the
\usepackage{tikz} and \usepackage{morewrites}). I get approximately half a
bazillion warnings from xelatex
/Use.htm
but don't see any parameter to change the pdf version. What was your command
line for the conversion?
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