Complete newcomer to XeTeX, having used another implementation (and
non-default fonts) on a very different implementation since long ago.
Trying to convert a system for printing catalogue pages from a
database, using Adobe Garamond output. XeTeX looks like just the thing
I need on the Mac, but I'm clueless as to two strange things that
happen when I try to get the text formatted right.
I have a .sty file almost unchanged from the older system. It begins,
complete with fossil lines,
% Style for my catalogue pages in LaTeX.
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
\ProvidesPackage{catpage}
[2000/07/28 v1.1 Just for catalogue pages]
%\RequirePackage{garamond}
%\RequirePackage{times}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\setmainfont{Adobe Garamond Pro} %
...
This may be totally wrong, but I got the setmainfont line from
somewhere [didn't mention that the project started a year ago and was
suspended for a long time], and it seems to work. Almost.
Problem 1: I get a lot of "overfull hbox messages", some trivial and
some way off. They don't seem to follow a pattern I can identify, but
pop up at seeming haphazard but reproducible places in any job or any
size.
Problem 2: The standard character conversions don't seem to function.
For example,
This in `quotes', I hope
renders as I entered it, not with translation to proper typographical
quotation marks.
These things do not happen if I comment out the \setmainfont{} line.
They do happen if I specify Times New Roman instead of Garamond.
Running Mac OS 10.5.8
I reloaded the latest texlive release the other day; when I first saw
the problem, it was on a 2009 release.
If you please, what dumb thing am I doing here?
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Dan Drake
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http://www.dandrake.com/index.html
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