Re: [XeTeX] Word wrapping in Lao

2010-04-16 Thread John Was
I don't know these languages at all, but (until something better is produced) I wonder if something could be done by making characters live. If there is a finite number of characters after which a break (without hyphen) is permissible on all or nearly all occasions, you could list them in the

Re: [XeTeX] Word wrapping in Lao

2010-04-16 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 16 Apr 2010, at 08:15, Brian Wilson wrote: Lao, Thai and Khmer space at the phrasal level and not the word level. I was not getting any word wrapping in Lao (haven't tried Thai or Khmer yet) until a friend suggested that I add the following in the preamble

Re: [XeTeX] Xetex won't compile without Lmodern fonts

2010-04-16 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 16.04.2010 um 00:20 schrieb Raphael Frey: (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/euenc/eu1lmr.fd)kpathsea: Invalid fontname `[lmroman10-regular]', contains '[' This rather looks like a mismatch of XeTeX components (from system and private area). You could insert a \listfiles

Re: [XeTeX] selecting font size

2010-04-16 Thread Herbert Schulz
On Apr 16, 2010, at 4:19 AM, David J. Perry wrote: (Could be memoir offers more.) Indeed it does offer many more font size options. My personal recommendation is to start learning memoir (it's a big, complicated thing) if you often need to produce documents with a complex layout. The

Re: [XeTeX] selecting font size

2010-04-16 Thread Fr. Michael Gilmary
Herbert Schulz wrote: I really wanted to use memoir but I mostly write articles using (a variant of) the article class and memoir's emulation of the article class still had leading chapter numbers (0, of course) in section numbers, etc. Maybe that can be changed but I found it discouraging.

Re: [XeTeX] selecting font size

2010-04-16 Thread Fr. Michael Gilmary
Brian Wilson wrote: For \documentclass{book} I can choose between 10pt-12pt. This is too small for booksfor the visually impared or books in languages whose font size is natively small. Thai fonts are really small. A 16pt Thai font is about 11pt for an English font. A 10pt Thai font is about

Re: [XeTeX] selecting font size

2010-04-16 Thread Herbert Schulz
On Apr 16, 2010, at 7:48 AM, Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote: Herbert Schulz wrote: I really wanted to use memoir but I mostly write articles using (a variant of) the article class and memoir's emulation of the article class still had leading chapter numbers (0, of course) in section numbers,

Re: [XeTeX] selecting font size

2010-04-16 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
And for those of us who are relatively new to LaTeX: latex can produce various classes of documents, like an article, report, book, etc. Each class is specific for certain purposes, and features default setup etc. There are several standard latex classes, i.e. article, report, and book (if

Re: [XeTeX] selecting font size

2010-04-16 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
As far as I remember, if you use memoir in the article emulation mode, the command \chapter works in the same way as \section in the article class. Wilfred --- On Fri, 16/4/10, Herbert Schulz he...@wideopenwest.com wrote: From: Herbert Schulz he...@wideopenwest.com Subject: Re: [XeTeX]

Re: [XeTeX] selecting font size

2010-04-16 Thread Herbert Schulz
On Apr 16, 2010, at 8:06 AM, Wilfred van Rooijen wrote: As far as I remember, if you use memoir in the article emulation mode, the command \chapter works in the same way as \section in the article class. Wilfred Howdy, Hmmm... that might be it. However, then I wouldn't call it an

Re: [XeTeX] selecting font size

2010-04-16 Thread Fr. Michael Gilmary
Wilfred van Rooijen wrote: As far as I remember, if you use memoir in the article emulation mode, the command \chapter works in the same way as \section in the article class. Yes. But I misread Herb's remarks and thought he simply wanted to do away with the numbers altogether. Nevertheless,

Re: [XeTeX] Xetex won't compile without Lmodern fonts

2010-04-16 Thread Raphael Frey
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:22:31 -0500 Herbert Schulz he...@wideopenwest.com wrote: Try the [cm-default] option for fontspec. Also, I'd put the fontspec line before the xunicode line but I'm not sure it makes a difference. Thank you and Peter Dyballa for your help and informaitons. The problem was

Re: [XeTeX] selecting font size

2010-04-16 Thread Sam Putman
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Herbert Schulz he...@wideopenwest.com wrote: On Apr 16, 2010, at 8:39 AM, Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote: Wilfred van Rooijen wrote: As far as I remember, if you use memoir in the article emulation mode, the command \chapter works in the same way as \section in

Re: [XeTeX] Word wrapping in Lao

2010-04-16 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 16.04.2010 um 15:24 schrieb Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd): Thank you for your suggestion. We agree that this would result in a significant improvement to our software, but we do not feel that this improvement should be made in isolation -- rather, we feel that we should make major

Re: [XeTeX] Word wrapping in Lao

2010-04-16 Thread Ross Moore
Hi Phil, On 17/04/2010, at 10:07 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: No, sorry Martin : probably not as famous as either of them, but fairly popular with Universities and such like ... These hints suggest DEC to me, with mini-vaxen. But wasn't this a US company? Martin

Re: [XeTeX] selecting font size

2010-04-16 Thread peter wilson
Sam Putman wrote: On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Herbert Schulz he...@wideopenwest.com wrote: On Apr 16, 2010, at 8:39 AM, Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote: Wilfred van Rooijen wrote: As far as I remember, if you use memoir in the article emulation mode, the command \chapter works in the