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

2011-11-16 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
I used to... but moved to Mac so don't anymore. I can't remember the nature of the difficulties, though, it's been a while. K >>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:13 AM, in message <4ec3d301.2050...@gmail.com>, Alessandro Ceschini wrote: > Hi everybody > > So, no one here has got problems with TeXWork

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

2011-11-16 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
Hi Taylor OK, you're right, it's a combo: fake fontspec errors in XeLaTeX and the breakdown of go-to functions in TeXWorks, are they related? I don't know. I cannot discern which one is to be blamed, for I typeset stuff in XeTeX through TeXWorks, I don't know how to use raw XeTeX nor do I use

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

2011-11-16 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Alessandro Ceschini wrote: Hi everybody So, no one here has got problems with TeXWorks? Or am I the only user of it around? Subject line was : "Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011" -- is the problem with TeXworks, or with XeLaTeX ? Philip Taylor ---

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

2011-11-16 Thread Alessandro Ceschini
Hi everybody So, no one here has got problems with TeXWorks? Or am I the only user of it around? Greetings -- /Alessandro Ceschini/ -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] aligning characters at their centers

2011-11-16 Thread Daniel Greenhoe
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Heiko Oberdiek wrote: > $\vcenter{\hbox{E}}\vcenter{\hbox{e}}$ That works great. Thanks so much for your help! Dan On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Heiko Oberdiek wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:28:33AM +0800, Daniel Greenhoe wrote: > >> Is there a way to

Re: [XeTeX] zero width joined character

2011-11-16 Thread Jens Bakker
Dear Vafa Khalighi and Petr Tomasek, Thank you very much for your instructive and detailed answers. Strangely enough, entering ZWJ with the keyboard, as Vafa has suggested, does not work with my persian keyboard which is the one which comes with Mac OS 10.6.8 (I am not able to bring to light if

Re: [XeTeX] zero width joined character

2011-11-16 Thread Vafa Khalighi
My apologies. You wanted ZWNJ. With the keyboard layout I mentioned, that is entered using `. See attached image. On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Vafa Khalighi wrote: > If you use Persian ISIRI−2901 keyboard on Mac, then SHIFT+SPACE gives you > ZWNJ. > > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Jens

Re: [XeTeX] zero width joined character

2011-11-16 Thread Vafa Khalighi
b) you can use something like > \def\zwj{\char"200d} in your XeTeX source file... > > That is not a good idea. If you need ZWNJ rarely, that might be a good solution but if you typeset Persian, then you find that you have to type lots of ZWNJs. Indeed using ZWNJ in Persian typography is a must. F

Re: [XeTeX] zero width joined character

2011-11-16 Thread Vafa Khalighi
If you use Persian ISIRI−2901 keyboard on Mac, then SHIFT+SPACE gives you ZWNJ. On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Jens Bakker wrote: > Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, > > I would like to ask, please, if anybody knows how to enter the zero width > joined character (ZWJ, unicode-point 200D) by a persian

Re: [XeTeX] zero width joined character

2011-11-16 Thread Petr Tomasek
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:42:48AM +0100, Jens Bakker wrote: > Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, > > I would like to ask, please, if anybody knows how to enter the zero width > joined character (ZWJ, unicode-point 200D) by a persian and/or arabic Mac > keyboard-layout. After some searching in the inter

[XeTeX] zero width joined character

2011-11-16 Thread Jens Bakker
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to ask, please, if anybody knows how to enter the zero width joined character (ZWJ, unicode-point 200D) by a persian and/or arabic Mac keyboard-layout. After some searching in the internet, I was not able to find any answer (while you can learn that the Z