On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 21:48:34 +0100 Joost Kremers <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 09:08:51PM +0100, Stephen Berman wrote: >> Thanks. I ran it through XeLaTeX and that indeed output the composed >> character correctly aligned, though the vertical positioning looks worse >> to me than with pdflatex (see attached screenshots; text0.pdf is with >> pdflatex and text1.pdf with xelatex). > > That may be a font issue. My preferred font is Linux Libertine, and as you can > see in the attached image, things look a bit different: the accents on b are > shifted slightly to the right so that they do not cross the ascender of the > b. Compare with p, where the accents are placed more centrally over the > letter. You're right, it depends on the font used. Though it seems strange that pdflatex and xelatex display the combining circumflex accent differently with the same font (assuming it was the same font, I just used whatever the default was). >> Also, to make this AUCTeX-related, after setting LaTeX-command to >> xelatex and typing C-c C-c in the test1.tex buffer, the compilation >> failed with the uninformative message "LaTeX: problems after [0] pages" >> and no log output. But running xelatex from the shell worked fine. Is >> there something else necessary to use XeLaTeX in AUCTeX? > > Have you checked the output of the TeX command with `C-c C-l` to see if > there's a more informative message? I've been using XeLaTeX for so long that I > don't remember if there's anything special I needed to configure. All I know > is that I have `TeX-engine` set to `xetex`. Thanks, that was it. (Setting LaTeX-command was definitely wrong: it resulted in AUCTeX trying to run "pdfxelatex".) Steve Berman _______________________________________________ auctex mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
