Re: [XeTeX] (bug?) letterspacing with LetterSpace and soul

2010-05-29 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
> a much more sophisticated replacement), but if it were possible to update its hyphenation patterns >to cope with UTF input, that would be a very welcome feature for plain (Xe)TeX users. Well there are UTF-8 encoded hyphenation patterns for monotonic Greek, polytonic Greek and ancient Greek a

Re: [XeTeX] (bug?) letterspacing with LetterSpace and soul

2010-05-29 Thread John Was
Hello In plain XeTeX I find the passage in the URL works OK with letter-spaced Greek if I give at the start: \font \myfont = "MinionPro-Regular:+onum:mapping=tex-text:letterspace=12" at 12pt \tolerance 500 \myfont \hsize 24pc However, XeTeX doesn't know how to hyphenate Greek so to avoid ov

[XeTeX] (bug?) letterspacing with LetterSpace and soul

2010-05-29 Thread Pablo Rodríguez
Hi Jonathan and others, some days ago, I asked for a way to enable soul to properly emphasize by letterspacing an ancient Greek text. Jonathan replied that Letterspace should be the way to go. It doesn't seem to work, since the first line on page 6 from http://www.ousia.tk/grammatike.pdf sho

Re: [XeTeX] PSTricks and XeTeX

2010-05-29 Thread John Was
Many thanks for the reply. I think all is now well, but it's a curious situation: This was a completely new installation on a fresh machine that had not had any previous TeX or XeTeX version loaded. The file I was adapting from an old EmTeX (vintage 1995) installation was a simple one to mak

Re: [XeTeX] Question about polyglossia and babel

2010-05-29 Thread Fr. Michael Gilmary
Alexey Kryukov wrote: The question was about babel-styled shorthands rather than standard TeX ligatures. I believe polyglossia doesn't yet support shorthands for Russian. OOPS! Sorry for the mix up. -- United in adoration of Jesus, fr. michael gilmary, mma Most Holy Trinity Monaste

Re: [XeTeX] PSTricks and XeTeX

2010-05-29 Thread hh-brasil
areyou sure that the pro-files were updated too? hh PS: if not, download the whole installation, unpack it, burn it to DVD and install it form DVD Em 29/05/2010 06:08, John Was < john@ntlworld.com > escreveu: Hello   I've just installed TeXLive 2009 (web download) on a new computer

Re: [XeTeX] Question about polyglossia and babel

2010-05-29 Thread Alexey Kryukov
On Sat, 29 May 2010 10:25:24 -0400 Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote: > The last command ( \defaultfontfeatures ) is what enables fontspec to > use --- and " as the standard (La)TeX does. However, with Xe(La)TeX, > you can enter — and “ (or ” ) directly since that's part of the > genius of XeTeX. The qu

Re: [XeTeX] Question about polyglossia and babel

2010-05-29 Thread Fr. Michael Gilmary
Alexander wrote: Hello. What the best way to use commands "--- and others (works in babel with Russian language) in XeTeX with polyglossia? Hi Alexander: If you use a preamble with something like this: %\usepackage[no-math]{fontspec} %% un-comment if you don't use math stuff \usepacka

[XeTeX] Question about polyglossia and babel

2010-05-29 Thread Alexander
Hello. What the best way to use commands "--- and others (works in babel with Russian language) in XeTeX with polyglossia? -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] unicode-math testing

2010-05-29 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Nikos Platis wrote: > By now this is mostly off-topic, but I checked the test case on > another computer with TeXLive 2009 x86_64 and get segmentation fault > as well. > > I also just installed TL 2010/pretest (Linux x86_64) and again get the > segmentation fault.

[XeTeX] PSTricks and XeTeX

2010-05-29 Thread John Was
Hello I've just installed TeXLive 2009 (web download) on a new computer running Windows XP Pro, and find that PSTricks isn't working (it's OK in TeXLive 2008). Is there some setting that I have to adjust manually? I forget whether I needed to do anything special in the 2008 installation (thou