Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] TeXLive Pretest - XeTeX segfaults on LInux 64

2010-07-12 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2010/7/12 Martin Schröder mar...@oneiros.de: 2010/7/12 Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard m...@elzevir.fr: so I think his answer is that it is *not* doable to ship 32 bit XeTeX on LinUX64, since the user would need a 32-bit version of the dynamically linked libraries. Which is the norm on OpenSUSE. :-)

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] Problem with ocrb10.otf ligature 'fi'

2011-06-13 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/6/13 Pander pan...@users.sourceforge.net: TeX Live list members: see full thread here: http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2011-June/020681.html for now keep the discussion at XeTeX's list. On 2011-06-13 14:22, msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Pander wrote: TeX Live 2010

[XeTeX] Defining ExtGState objects

2011-09-07 Thread Zdenek Wagner
Hello, I want to define ExtGState objects via \special{pdf: ...}. The minimal document is: \documentclass{article} \special{pdf: object @opoff /Type /ExtGState /op false /OP false /OPM 0 } \special{pdf: object @opon /Type /ExtGState /op true /OP true /OPM 1 } \special{pdf: object @extgs /GSko

Re: [XeTeX] Defining ExtGState objects

2011-09-07 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/9/7 Heiko Oberdiek heiko.oberd...@googlemail.com: On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 01:02:38PM +0200, Zdenek Wagner wrote: ... The references are different from pdfTeX, in pdfTeX you specify the number followed by 0 R. But in dvipdfm(x)/XeTeX the objects are referenced by name without 0 R

Re: [XeTeX] Hyphenation in Transliterated Sanskrit

2011-09-10 Thread Zdenek Wagner
. It should work out of the box unless you use a different transliteration. An example including the log file will help to find the source of the problem. Best Neal On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 15:47:38 -0500, Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wag...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/9/10 Neal Delmonico ndelmon

Re: [XeTeX] Hyphenation in Transliterated Sanskrit

2011-09-11 Thread Zdenek Wagner
such mechanical approach would work. Thanks again. Neal On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 04:32:59 -0500, Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wag...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/9/11 Neal Delmonico ndelmon...@sbcglobal.net: Thanks!  How would one set it up so that the English portions are hyphenated according to English rules

Re: [XeTeX] Is this a bug in xelatex/xdvipdfmx ?

2011-09-12 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/9/12 rhin...@postmail.ch: Hi All,    Few years ago, I have bought few fonts type 1 from Bitstream. Even, if they are only type 1, they are sufficient for most of the documents I have to write. When I want to use them with all the TeX engines (pdflatex, lualatex, latex+dvips+ps2pdf)

Re: [XeTeX] Dinosaurs

2011-09-12 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/9/12 Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk: Tobias Schoel wrote: Shouldn't real dinosaurs (real as in MTV Real Life) calculate using only the Peano Axioms and the unary system? I mean, the natural numbers and the peano axioms are nature given / god given (choose

Re: [XeTeX] Portable code and xetex

2011-09-13 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/9/13 rhin...@postmail.ch: Hi All,     I want to develop/adapt some personal styles to XeTeX (to include polyglossia instead of babel for instance). I want however to keep the compatibility with other TeX engines. Long ago I have used a portable test but I don't remember exactly the

Re: [XeTeX] using xetex, leaflet and includegraphics

2011-09-15 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/9/15 Peter Dyballa peter_dyba...@web.de: Am 15.09.2011 um 10:13 schrieb Marc Hohl: I used xdvi instead of dvipdfm How can you display an XDV (or PDF) file with xdvi? Dvipdfm is neither able to use an XDV file, the intermediary output format of XeTeX, which you usually do not see,

Re: [XeTeX] Polyglossia broken?

2011-09-21 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/9/21 Arash Zeini arash.ze...@gmail.com: Hello, See the previous thread open by Alex Hamann I updated my vanilla TexLive 2011 installation two days ago and have since been unable to compile my document correctly. Nothing has changed in my document but I now receive 181 error messages,

Re: [XeTeX] Polyglossia broken?

2011-09-21 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/9/21 Herbert Schulz he...@wideopenwest.com: On Sep 21, 2011, at 7:21 AM, VAFA KHALIGHI wrote: It is a bug in polyglossia that xkeyval has to be loaded manually before polyglossia, because polyglossia has forgotten \RequirePackage{xkeyval}. Not really. fontspec used to load xkeyval

Re: [XeTeX] Polyglossia broken?

2011-09-21 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/9/21 Heiko Oberdiek heiko.oberd...@googlemail.com: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 02:34:41PM +0200, Zdenek Wagner wrote: That's right. \RequirePackage and \usepackage maintain internally a list of already loaded packages. There is one potential problem, you are not specified a different list

Re: [XeTeX] Polyglossia broken?

2011-09-21 Thread Zdenek Wagner
. 2011/9/21 Arash Zeini arash.ze...@gmail.com On Wednesday 21 September 2011, Zdenek Wagner wrote: 2011/9/21 Arash Zeini arash.ze...@gmail.com: Hello, See the previous thread open by Alex Hamann Thanks for your prompt response. I am unable to locate a recent

Re: [XeTeX] Compatibility issues with ednotes and pstricks or TikZ

2011-09-21 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/9/21 VAFA KHALIGHI vafa...@gmail.com: I am not sure what is the actual problem but I can tell you what bidi does. bidi does the following: Can it depend on the order in which the packages are loaded? This is what I would try. My feeling is that the correct order would be tikz, endnote,

Re: [XeTeX] Difference between XeLaTeX and LaTeX

2011-09-22 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/9/21 Suresh Avvarulakshmi, Integra-PDY, IN suresh.avvarulaks...@integra.co.in: Hi All, Are they any comparisons documents, which shows the difference between XeLaTeX and LaTeX typesettings? I do not know but it can be said quite simply. In any case, it is Lamport's LaTeX with

Re: [XeTeX] polyglossia and french

2011-09-25 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/9/25 Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com: On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 22:55, Alan Munn wrote: On Sep 24, 2011, at 3:34 PM, rhin...@postmail.ch wrote: Hi All,    When typesetting documents in french with polyglossia, a space is added before double punctuation signs (like !:?...).

Re: [XeTeX] polyglossia and french

2011-09-25 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/9/25 rhin...@postmail.ch: On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 09:11:55AM +0200, Zdenek Wagner wrote: 2011/9/25 Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com: On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 22:55, Alan Munn wrote: On Sep 24, 2011, at 3:34 PM, rhin...@postmail.ch wrote: Hi All,    When typesetting

Re: [XeTeX] polyglossia and french

2011-09-25 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/9/25 Javier Bezos lis...@tex-tipografia.com: I have received a private mail from François Charette saying that he no longer has time to maintain polyglossia and he offered the package to others to become maintainers. I myself will not have any time tilll the end of this year and moreover

Re: [XeTeX] Polyglossia broken?

2011-10-01 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/1 Herbert Schulz he...@wideopenwest.com: On Oct 1, 2011, at 3:25 AM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote: On 21 September 2011 17:52, Heiko Oberdiek heiko.oberd...@googlemail.comwrote: It is a bug in polyglossia that xkeyval has to be loaded manually before polyglossia, because polyglossia

Re: [XeTeX] Polyglossia broken?

2011-10-01 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/1 Dominik Wujastyk wujas...@gmail.com: On 21 September 2011 17:52, Heiko Oberdiek heiko.oberd...@googlemail.com wrote: It is a bug in polyglossia that xkeyval has to be loaded manually before polyglossia, because polyglossia has forgotten \RequirePackage{xkeyval}. Okay, now that

Re: [XeTeX] Hyphenation in Transliterated Sanskrit

2011-10-02 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/2 Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk: Cyril Niklaus wrote: Because that's how his name is spelled.  You have guttural, palatal, retroflex and dental n in Devanāgarī, respectively ङ ṅa ; ञ ña; ण ṇa and न na. Yes, but all n variants are normally the same size,

Re: [XeTeX] Polyglossia broken?

2011-10-02 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/2 Martin Schröder mar...@oneiros.de: 2011/10/2 Alan Munn am...@gmx.com: Well I don't think Philipp has commit privileges, and CTAN isn't happy about random (even highly trusted) people uploading new versions of packages that are still officially maintained. Which seems to boil down

Re: [XeTeX] Fwd: xindy style file for Sanskrit?

2011-10-04 Thread Zdenek Wagner
Yes, I have written an xdy file for Snaskrit but have not published it yet. It has never been tested and may be buggy. I need someone who will send me some word list for testing and some marked text and then verify the result and help me to fix the rules if something is wrong. 2011/10/4 Dominik

Re: [XeTeX] fontspec.sty- xelatex: GUI framework cannot be initialized.

2011-10-04 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/4 Harish Kumar Holla harishkumarho...@pec.edu: Thanks to every one. Problem was with my miktex installation. I re installed the same and now XeLaTeX works fine. And it is great with full freedom with fonts. Neverthless I have a query with the experts.

Re: [XeTeX] Odd hyphenations

2011-10-04 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/5 Arthur Reutenauer arthur.reutena...@normalesup.org: Thanks.  I will try this and uncomment the \setotherlanguage{Sanskrit}.  That way if there are any hyphenations in the Hindi verse, they will occur correctly.  Am I correct in thinking this?  You've got it mostly right.  I was

Re: [XeTeX] footnotes and ArabXeTeX

2011-10-05 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/5 Nathan Sidoli nathan.sid...@utoronto.ca: Here is one for Vafa in your new capacity as maintainer of ArabXeTeX. Thanks for taking over this package! (I sent this to François some time ago, but I don't think anything has been done about it.) In certain environments, there is some

Re: [XeTeX] footnotes and ArabXeTeX

2011-10-05 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/5 Philip TAYLOR p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk: Zdenek Wagner wrote: This is a problem of \catcode. Apparently \textarab changes \catcode of ^ and _ to 12. However, \footnote (as well as other macros) read the whole argument and when \textarab starts to play its role, it is too late

Re: [XeTeX] Missing char, missing footnote

2011-10-11 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/11 Tobias Schoel liesdieda...@googlemail.com: Am 11.10.2011 21:20, schrieb Karljurgen Feuerherm: Hello Ross, On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at  3:15 PM, in message (2) The footnote has vanished. I suppose that means footnotes aren't legal in tables of this type... Can someone suggest a

Re: [XeTeX] Runaway argument issues

2011-10-11 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/12 Herbert Schulz he...@wideopenwest.com: On Oct 11, 2011, at 4:54 PM, Chris Travers wrote: Here is a minimal sample to reproduce the problem: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{longtable} \begin{document} \begin{longtable}{ll}   \textbf{Número}   \textbf{Descripción}

Re: [XeTeX] Runaway argument issues

2011-10-11 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/12 Chris Travers chris.trav...@gmail.com: On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Peter Dyballa peter_dyba...@web.de wrote: Am 12.10.2011 um 00:10 schrieb Chris Travers: texlive-xetex-2007-51.fc13.i686 Now that the 2011 is almost finished you could consider updating to TeX Live 2011...

Re: [XeTeX] Missing char, missing footnote

2011-10-12 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/12 Tobias Schoel liesdieda...@googlemail.com: Am 11.10.2011 23:19, schrieb Zdenek Wagner: 2011/10/11 Tobias Schoelliesdieda...@googlemail.com: Am 11.10.2011 21:20, schrieb Karljurgen Feuerherm: Hello Ross, On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at  3:15 PM, in message (2) The footnote has

Re: [XeTeX] Always bold math

2011-10-12 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/12 Tobias Schoel liesdieda...@googlemail.com: Hi, is there a convenient way to tell XeLaTeX to print all math in bold. May be a fontspec or unicode-math option or command? Or a LaTeX-command? \boldmath doesn't work. Do you have \boldmath outside math? This works for me, compare the

Re: [XeTeX] traditional to simplified Chinese character conversion utility or data base

2011-10-18 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/17 Daniel Greenhoe dgreen...@gmail.com: I know that this is not really the right mailing list for this question, but I have so far not found the answer by any other means ... I would like to find or write some a utility that would take an unicode encoded file and map Chinese

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-18 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/18 Chris Travers chris.trav...@gmail.com: Hi all; I need to generate the xelatex.fmt file.  Apparently Fedora doesn't create these files.  It is not a new issue, I have had issues with the latex.fmt files not created in the past. Is there any way to manually create this file?

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-19 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/19 Ulrike Fischer ne...@nililand.de: Am Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:39:06 -0700 schrieb Chris Travers: So the limit is five years (but only for the latex kernel). The version date of my (current) latex.ltx ist \edef\fmtversion{2011/06/27} Or is XeTeX not intended to be used in these

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-19 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/19 Chris Travers chris.trav...@gmail.com: On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:45 AM, Ulrike Fischer ne...@nililand.de wrote: Well I'm a windows user so actually I'm not really affected. But imho the linux distros should rethink their installation methods and installation advices. It is absurd

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-19 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/19 Chris Travers chris.trav...@gmail.com: On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Ulrike Fischer ne...@nililand.de wrote: Am Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:59:16 -0700 schrieb Chris Travers: This matches my needs very well.  If my clients are running accounting systems, the last thing I want is an

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-19 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/19 Arthur Reutenauer arthur.reutena...@normalesup.org: Hm. I don't understand how this can be a general usable work-around. What actually is the appropriate directory here? Do you have a newer/local version of latex.ltx in this directory?  Actually, if you look at a latex.ltx that has

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-20 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/20 Petr Tomasek toma...@etf.cuni.cz: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 05:16:12PM +0200, Peter Dyballa wrote: Am 18.10.2011 um 16:39 schrieb Chris Travers: Here's a breakdown of OS support for TexLive versions for anyone interested: Debian Lenny:  TexLive 2007 Debian Squeeze:  TexLive

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-20 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/20 Chris Travers chris.trav...@gmail.com: 2011/10/20 Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wag...@gmail.com: It would be a good way if the native packages were up-to-date and if they allowed me to install not only the current version but even older versions. As a matter of fact, I first verify

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-20 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/20 Chris Travers chris.trav...@gmail.com: The general point is that where one is doing server-side document generation, there are sufficient reasons *not* to use external binary blobs with it's own package manager that doesn't talk to or integrate with anything else, which has a short

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-20 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/20 Chris Travers chris.trav...@gmail.com: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Ulrike Fischer ne...@nililand.de wrote: Am Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:32:00 +0200 schrieb Susan Dittmar: Helping users with the day-to-day administrational work was the main reason why linux distributions have been

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-20 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/20 Petr Tomasek toma...@etf.cuni.cz: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 04:24:47PM +0200, Peter Dyballa wrote: Am 20.10.2011 um 16:12 schrieb Chris Travers: Not disturbing other dependencies that production software depends on. It can't. It does not carry shared libraries, DLLs, or such,

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-20 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/20 Petr Tomasek toma...@etf.cuni.cz: ... offers a stable multiplatform solution. I would not believe that in each distro they develop their own kernel, their own HW drivers, their own GTK, their own TCP/IP stack, their own web browsers. I have never heard of Debian/Mozilla,

Re: [XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

2011-10-21 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/21 Chris Travers chris.trav...@gmail.com: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Peter Dyballa peter_dyba...@web.de wrote: Am 20.10.2011 um 16:54 schrieb Chris Travers: One of the other commentors talks about documents that don't render on all versions of TexLive.  If a client of mine is

Re: [XeTeX] traditional to simplified Chinese character conversion utility or data base

2011-10-22 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/22 Daniel Greenhoe dgreen...@gmail.com: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wag...@gmail.com wrote: If you wish to do it on the fly in XeTeX,  you can write a TECkit map. I do have a map now. Can someone tell me how to do the conversion on the fly in XeLaTeX? I did

Re: [XeTeX] Performance of ucharclasses

2011-10-23 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/23 Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk: Tobias Schoel wrote: Besides, I also wouldn't do, if it was allowed. Who knows, what methods the author employs in order to enforce the discouragement? ;-) I believe a much-loved horse's head in one's bed is generally

Re: [XeTeX] How to Convert Devanagari (sanskrit) text to Telugu Text

2011-10-23 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/24 A u akupadhyay...@gmail.com: Hi, I have certain text that I typed in Sanskrit. I would like to convert this to other Indian languages (i.e. Telugu, Tamil and Kanada) If there is an example that you can point to I would greatly appreciate your help. I hope that a simple 1:1 mapping

Re: [XeTeX] How to Convert Devanagari (sanskrit) text to Telugu Text

2011-10-25 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/25 Tirumurti Vasudevan drtvasude...@gmail.com: well, i am a newbie myself and dont understand your problem. could you send a sample file? you want a transliteration, right? copy paste the text portions in the converter, get it converted. copy paste the sanskrit tex file into new file,

Re: [XeTeX] Performance of ucharclasses

2011-10-25 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/25 Tobias Schoel liesdieda...@googlemail.com: Am 25.10.2011 10:30, schrieb Keith J. Schultz: O.K. I will jump in here. Intellectual property rights are often a great big gray zone. Maybe, it is time the author of the package speaks up himself what is meant. That would help.

Re: [XeTeX] How to Convert Devanagari (sanskrit) text to Telugu Text

2011-10-25 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/25 A u akupadhyay...@gmail.com: I have a text like this, I typed using XeLatex. I want to change this below text to Telugu font. तपः स्वाध्याय निरताम् तपस्वी वाग्विदाम् वरम् | \\ नारदम् परिपप्रच्छ वाल्मीकिः मुनि पुंगवम् || १-१-१ You need a map containing something like: LHSName

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] Ftuture state of XeTeX in TeXLive

2011-10-28 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/28 Vafa Khalighi vafa...@gmail.com: Hi Since Jonathan has no time any more for coding XeTeX, then what will be the state of XeTeX in TeX distributions such as TeXLive? will be XeTeX removed from TeXLive just like Aleph and Omega (in favour of LuaTeX) were removed from TeXLive?

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] Future state of XeTeX in TeXLive

2011-10-28 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/28 msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca: On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, William Adams wrote: majority of documents are created using GUI tools.   What use cases are better served by batch mode, and in what cases is TeX used by default because of available GUI tools refuse to play. Large database

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] Future state of XeTeX in TeXLive

2011-10-28 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/28 maxwell maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu: On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, William Adams wrote: majority of documents are created using GUI tools.   What use cases are better served by batch mode, and in what cases is TeX used by default because of available GUI tools refuse to play. We have a process

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] Ftuture state of XeTeX in TeXLive

2011-10-28 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/28 Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk: Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 13:19, Vafa Khalighi wrote: Hi Since Jonathan has no time any more for coding XeTeX, then what will be the state of XeTeX in TeX distributions such as TeXLive? will be XeTeX

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] Future state of XeTeX in TeXLive

2011-10-29 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/29 Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk: Chris Travers wrote: I think you are assuming a lot about knowledge of book design. The LaTeX styles out of the box are a bit formal. I think the margins are too wide, and I prefer different fonts But I would hardly

Re: [XeTeX] TECkit map for Latin alphabet to Unicode IPA

2011-10-30 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/10/30 Daniel Greenhoe dgreen...@gmail.com: On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Andy Lin kir...@gmail.com wrote: This is actually the reason I abandoned developing the map file further. I had started based on the textipa replacements that I knew, and then I discovered all the additional

Re: [XeTeX] Hyperref \hyperlink and \hypertarget not working with accented characters

2011-11-02 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/2 Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk: Ross Moore wrote: On 02/11/2011, at 10:40 AM, Andy Black wrote:    \hyperlink{rAsociación}{APLT (1988)} Don't use non-ASCII characters in the link. Oh dear, does PDF still live in the TeX 2 era ?  Surely /someone/ in Adobe

Re: [XeTeX] Hyperref \hyperlink and \hypertarget not working with accented characters

2011-11-02 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/2 Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk: Zdenek Wagner wrote: 2011/11/2 Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk: Adobe _does_ live in such era because tha last really portable reader for all operating systems is version 3. Bugs reported by me in January

Re: [XeTeX] Hyperref \hyperlink and \hypertarget not working with accented characters

2011-11-02 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/2 Arthur Reutenauer arthur.reutena...@normalesup.org: OK.  But could a PDF reader not use the same detection algorithm as (say) the Microsoft C# Compiler -- No BOM : ASCII; BOM : UTF-8 ?  Of course not; UTF-8 strings do not necessarily contain a BOM.  Where did you get that strange

Re: [XeTeX] Hyperref \hyperlink and \hypertarget not working with accented characters

2011-11-02 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/2 Heiko Oberdiek heiko.oberd...@googlemail.com: On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 01:11:04PM +, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Byte string means that the string consists of bytes 0-255 (or 1..255). Can you write them with XeTeX in a file or use as destination names without using

Re: [XeTeX] How to Convert Devanagari (sanskrit) text to Telugu Text

2011-11-03 Thread Zdenek Wagner
mktexlsr AFTER installing the .tec file? If the .tec file is in a correct directory, mktexlst has been run and it still does not work, it will be necessary to try strace xelatex DevtoTel in order to see what files are used. On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wag...@gmail.com

Re: [XeTeX] How to Convert Devanagari (sanskrit) text to Telugu Text

2011-11-03 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2strace.log and send me strace.log, I will try to find what's wrong On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wag...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/11/3 A u akupadhyay...@gmail.com: I did not get any error message either in my Mac or on my linux message. I did run mktexlsr after

Re: [XeTeX] How to Convert Devanagari (sanskrit) text to Telugu Text

2011-11-03 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/3 Peter Dyballa peter_dyba...@web.de: Am 03.11.2011 um 13:46 schrieb A u: /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/fonts/misc/xetex/fontmappings/ The correct pathname would be: /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/fonts/misc/xetex/fontmapping. Since your files are local additions to the

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] XeTeX/TeX Live : Setting the default language

2011-11-03 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/3 Arthur Reutenauer arthur.reutena...@normalesup.org:  Just edit your language.def file.  Actually, you can create a one-line file that says british loadhyph-en-gb.tex (not hyph-en-gb.tex!) and create the format with fmtutil. The British hyphenation patterns are loaded in the XeLaTeX

Re: [XeTeX] How to Convert Devanagari (sanskrit) text to Telugu Text

2011-11-03 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/4 Peter Dyballa peter_dyba...@web.de: Am 03.11.2011 um 23:53 schrieb A u: I checked line number 54 and it looks like this U+092F U+0C2F To me it looks like        U+092E U+0C2EU Strange... I have looked at the file I saved 24 hours ago. At this file line 54 is empty, all

Re: [XeTeX] How to Convert Devanagari (sanskrit) text to Telugu Text

2011-11-03 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/4 Peter Dyballa peter_dyba...@web.de: Am 04.11.2011 um 01:13 schrieb Zdenek Wagner: 2011/11/4 Peter Dyballa peter_dyba...@web.de: Am 03.11.2011 um 23:53 schrieb A u: I checked line number 54 and it looks like this U+092F U+0C2F To me it looks like        U+092E U+0C2EU

Re: [XeTeX] Synching PDF paper size with typesetting size

2011-11-05 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/5 Karljurgen Feuerherm kfeuerh...@wlu.ca: Yes, thanks, I see. I starting doing something similar earlier today. It is true, of course, that one may *not* want B5 pdf when the page is B5 (say to allow for trim), so forcing the two to be identical wouldn't be the thing to do either...

Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-07 Thread Zdenek Wagner
Hi, my Liberation Serif (from CentOS 5) contains italic but not greek. I processed the file by TL 2009, 2010, 2011, the results are at http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/stripped-down/ 2011/11/7 Alessandro Ceschini alessandroceschini...@gmail.com: Hi To Vafa: Wait, there exists a Liberation Serif

Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-07 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/7 Alessandro Ceschini alessandroceschini...@gmail.com: Hi guys, Why should fontspec try to load a crappy slanted shape in the first place? I At my computer Liberation Serif Italic (and Bold Italic) is found and used. just don't understand why! Slanted shapes are a last-resort stuff,

Re: [XeTeX] Synching PDF paper size with typesetting size

2011-11-11 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/11 BPJ b...@melroch.se: On 2011-11-07 13:43, William Adams wrote: %converted to BP 'cause using mm made Acrobat 8 report an error Aha, that's what I've been experiencing when trying to create pdfs in PA4 (210 x 280 mm) format. What's the conversion formula? According to wikipedia

Re: [XeTeX] nbsp; in XeTeX

2011-11-13 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/13 msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca: On Sun, 13 Nov 2011, Petr Tomasek wrote: make ~ not active when writing my own macros because it contradicts the Unicode standard...) Isn't it just as much a contradiction of the standard for \ to do what \ does?  I don't think that is a good way to

Re: [XeTeX] nbsp; in XeTeX

2011-11-13 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/13 Tobias Schoel liesdieda...@googlemail.com: Am 13.11.2011 12:35, schrieb Zdenek Wagner: 2011/11/13msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca: On Sun, 13 Nov 2011, Petr Tomasek wrote: make ~ not active when writing my own macros because it contradicts the Unicode standard...) Isn't it just

Re: [XeTeX] nbsp; in XeTeX

2011-11-13 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/13 Philip TAYLOR p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk: 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

Re: [XeTeX] nbsp; in XeTeX

2011-11-14 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/14 Philip TAYLOR p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk: 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 need a program intended to change things

Re: [XeTeX] nbsp; in XeTeX

2011-11-14 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/14 Petr Tomasek toma...@etf.cuni.cz: On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 06:25:08PM +0200, Tobias Schoel wrote: Am 13.11.2011 18:16, schrieb Philip TAYLOR: Tobias Schoel wrote: One opinion says, that using (La)TeX is programming. Consequently, each character used should be visually well

Re: [XeTeX] nbsp; in XeTeX

2011-11-14 Thread Zdenek Wagner
unicode capable editors if proper fonts are installed but none of them displays nonbreakable space in a way clearly distinguishable from normal space. regards        Keith. Am 14.11.2011 um 11:38 schrieb Zdenek Wagner: You live in a perfect world where you can do everything with a single

Re: [XeTeX] nbsp; in XeTeX

2011-11-14 Thread Zdenek Wagner
. Personally, I think when working with unicode you should use a graphics capable terminal. But, that is just my position. regards        Keith. Am 14.11.2011 um 15:16 schrieb Zdenek Wagner: 2011/11/14 Keith J. Schultz keithjschu...@web.de: Well, Zdenek, I guess that is where TeXWorks

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-14 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/14 Philip TAYLOR p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk: msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: various points with which I have no reason to disagree at this time, followed by 2. Inevitably, people will include invalid characters in TeX input; and U+00A0 is an invalid character for TeX input. Firstly

Re: [XeTeX] nbsp; in XeTeX

2011-11-14 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/14 Mike Maxwell maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu: I'm going to repeat myself, or maybe if I shout I'll be heard? We are not (at least I am not) suggesting that everyone must use the Unicode non-breaking space character, or etc.  What we *are* suggesting is that in Xe(La)Tex, we be *allowed*

Re: [XeTeX] nbsp; in XeTeX

2011-11-15 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/14 Mike Maxwell maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu: On 11/14/2011 4:56 PM, Zdenek Wagner wrote: 2011/11/14 Mike Maxwellmaxw...@umiacs.umd.edu: We are not (at least I am not) suggesting that everyone must use the Unicode non-breaking space character, or etc.  What we *are* suggesting

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-15 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/15 Mike Maxwell maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu: On 11/15/2011 5:39 AM, Chris Travers wrote: My recommendation is: 1)  Default to handling all white space as it exists now. 2)  Provide some sort of switch, whether to the execution of XeTeX or to the document itself, to turn on handling of

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-15 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/15 Chris Travers chris.trav...@gmail.com: 2011/11/15 Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wag...@gmail.com: 2011/11/15 Mike Maxwell maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu: On 11/15/2011 5:39 AM, Chris Travers wrote: My recommendation is: 1)  Default to handling all white space as it exists now. 2)  Provide some

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-15 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/15 Philip TAYLOR p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk: 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

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-15 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/15 Philip TAYLOR p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk: 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

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-15 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/15 Philip TAYLOR p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk: 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

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-15 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/15 Herbert Schulz he...@wideopenwest.com: On Nov 15, 2011, at 8:52 AM, Philip TAYLOR wrote: 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

Re: [XeTeX] XePersian in Persian version of Wikipedia

2011-11-15 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/15 Vafa Khalighi vafa...@gmail.com: http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%BE%D8%B1%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%86 خوب -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.:  http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Zdeněk

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-15 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/15 Ross Moore ross.mo...@mq.edu.au: On 16/11/2011, at 5:56 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote: Given that TeX (and XeTeX too) deal wit a non-breakble space already (where we usually use the ~ to represent that space) it seems to me that XeTeX should treat that the same way. No, I disagree

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-15 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/15 Ross Moore ross.mo...@mq.edu.au: Hi Zdenek, On 16/11/2011, at 8:58 AM, Zdenek Wagner wrote: 2011/11/15 Ross Moore ross.mo...@mq.edu.au: On 16/11/2011, at 5:56 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote: Given that TeX (and XeTeX too) deal wit a non-breakble space already (where we usually use

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-15 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/15 Ross Moore ross.mo...@mq.edu.au: Hi Phil, On 16/11/2011, at 8:45 AM, Philip TAYLOR wrote: Ross Moore wrote: On 16/11/2011, at 5:56 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote: Given that TeX (and XeTeX too) deal wit a non-breakble space already (where we usually use the ~ to represent that

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-15 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/16 Ross Moore ross.mo...@mq.edu.au: On 16/11/2011, at 9:45 AM, Zdenek Wagner wrote: 2011/11/15 Ross Moore ross.mo...@mq.edu.au: What if you really want the Ux00A0 character to be in the PDF? That is, when you copy/paste from the PDF, you want that character to come along

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-17 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/17 Ross Moore ross.mo...@mq.edu.au: Hi Phil, On 17/11/2011, at 23:53, Philip TAYLOR p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk wrote: Keith J. Schultz wrote: 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

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-17 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/17 Ross Moore ross.mo...@mq.edu.au: Hello Zdenek, On 18/11/2011, at 7:49 AM, Zdenek Wagner wrote: But a formatting instruction for one program cannot serve as reliable input for another. A heuristic is then needed, to attempt to infer that a programming instruction must have been

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-18 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/18 Keith J. Schultz keithjschu...@web.de: Hi Pihilip, Thoughout, my programming life and experience I have learned that internal structure means nothing, as long as the result is correct when it comes out. As you rightfully point out the problem lies inside how TeX internally

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

2011-11-18 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/18 Keith J. Schultz keithjschu...@web.de: Hi All, Sorry, I go OT here, but in order to debate it is necessary. Please forgive. Hi all, I agree with Keith, I have just a few comments. I have to side more with Philip. What most are forgetting is what (Xe)TeX is intended for. It is

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-18 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/18 Philip TAYLOR p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk: 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

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-18 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/18 maxwell maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu: On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:52:56 +0100, Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wag...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/11/18 Philip TAYLOR p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk: Is it safe to assume that these code listings are restricted to the ASCII character set ?  If so, yes, spaces are likely

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-18 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2011/11/19 Ross Moore ross.mo...@mq.edu.au: Hi Zdenek, On 19/11/2011, at 9:51 AM, Zdenek Wagner wrote: This is a demonstration that glyphs are not the same as characters. I will startt with a simpler case and will not put Devanagari to the mail message. If you wish to write a syllable RU

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