Re: [XeTeX] polyglossia and french

2011-09-24 Thread Alan Munn
On Sep 24, 2011, at 8:07 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > 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

2011-09-24 Thread Mojca Miklavec
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 !:?...). >> >> This is normal in french typography used in Fr

Re: [XeTeX] polyglossia and french

2011-09-24 Thread Alan Munn
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 !:?...). > > This is normal in french typography used in France. However, > here in Switzerland, it is more usual

[XeTeX] polyglossia and french

2011-09-24 Thread rhino64
Hi All, When typesetting documents in french with polyglossia, a space is added before double punctuation signs (like !:?...). This is normal in french typography used in France. However, here in Switzerland, it is more usual to not use this extra space. For the Babel package, I have written

Re: [XeTeX] Strange behaviour xelatex/fontspec/Windows

2011-09-24 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
OK with TeX Live 2010. Philip Taylor rhin...@postmail.ch wrote: > \documentclass[12pt,draft]{article} > > \usepackage{iftex} > \usepackage{fontspec} >\ifXeTeX > %Traitement des ligatures classiques de TeX > \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text} >\else > %LuaTeX

[XeTeX] Strange behaviour xelatex/fontspec/Windows

2011-09-24 Thread rhino64
Hi All, When using xelatex and fontspec (from updated TeXLive 2011) and specifying font by file name under Windows, The font cannot be loaded and a strange error message saying the name contains a blank is displayed. The error message displayed in DOS command windows is: (c:/texlive/2011/texm

Re: [XeTeX] extra space after single Hebrew word

2011-09-24 Thread Gildas Hamel
Thank you for identifying and correcting the bug so rapidly. No need to apologize. I greatly appreciate and admire your work. -- Gildas On Sep 23, 2011, at 23:34, VAFA KHALIGHI wrote: > This is clearly caused by \eq@if macro in bidi.sty. It is a bug. There > supposed to be %s after \let#1#3 a

Re: [XeTeX] Shadow with Xelatex

2011-09-24 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:51:10 +0200 schrieb Peter Dyballa: >> And the same list of commands when I typesset with latex instead >> of xelatex is succesfull. > PSTricks are written for the pdfTeX engine. XeTeX uses a different > engine which supports some of the PSTricks. You could try > LuaTeX...