[XeTeX] catcodes of superscripts, etc.

2010-05-31 Thread Will Robertson
(Sorry for the cross-posting, but this seems of very minor possible interest to a few different people.) Hi Jonathan, I've just noticed that catcodes of superscript i and n have catcode 11, as do the latin & greek subscripts. (Code points appended.) I'm going to change this in unicode-math (so

Re: [XeTeX] Question about polyglossia and babel

2010-05-31 Thread Vladimir Lomov
** Vadim Radionov [2010-05-31 14:35:21 +0400]: > Vladimir, > You know, that Russian babel short-hands do slightly more than just insert a > glyph from the font: they adjust the spacing around the em-dash (and the > length of the dash, too), and allow hyphenation of adjacent words (in case > of hy

Re: [XeTeX] Weird character swap when using xelatex+fontspec+listings

2010-05-31 Thread Eelis van der Weegen
On 2010-05-30 22:54, Philipp Stephani wrote: > switch to a modern alternative like minted On 2010-06-01 00:13, Nikos Platis wrote: > try the "minted" package, which is compatible with XeLaTeX but > requires an external Python script to do the actual formatting. If you > are working in Windows it m

Re: [XeTeX] [OS X TeX] Accented characters in Xe(La)TeX

2010-05-31 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 01.06.2010 um 01:06 schrieb Ross Moore: What I really need now are 2 things: 1. an easy way to access variants for accents, according to whether they go over upper/lower-case letters; Linotype FontExplorer X, Apple Fonttools suite, FontForge; access via glyph IDs. ^ has glyph ID

Re: [XeTeX] [OS X TeX] Accented characters in Xe(La)TeX

2010-05-31 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 01.06.2010 um 01:13 schrieb cfr...@imapmail.org: On Leopard I see no difference between "Venturis ADF" and "But"... Do you mean that you do not see the incorrect characters in the PDF I sent you? Or do you mean you do not see them when you process the source I sent? My self-compiled (st

Re: [XeTeX] weird behaviour with LetterSpace

2010-05-31 Thread wodzicki
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Re: [XeTeX] [OS X TeX] Accented characters in Xe(La)TeX

2010-05-31 Thread cfrees
On Tue 1st Jun, 2010 at 00:32, Peter Dyballa seems to have written: Am 31.05.2010 um 23:31 schrieb cfr...@imapmail.org: Attached: source and pdf On Leopard I see no difference between "Venturis ADF" and "But"... Do you mean that you do not see the incorrect characters in the PDF I sent y

Re: [XeTeX] [OS X TeX] Accented characters in Xe(La)TeX

2010-05-31 Thread Ross Moore
Hi Peter, On 01/06/2010, at 8:41 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote: Am 01.06.2010 um 00:03 schrieb Ross Moore: Now here's my variant of your example, with all font characters showing correctly, and constructed where necessary. Ross, the correct code points are: [Ẅ] 1E84 LATIN CAPITAL LE

Re: [XeTeX] [OS X TeX] Accented characters in Xe(La)TeX

2010-05-31 Thread cfrees
On Tue 1st Jun, 2010 at 08:03, Ross Moore seems to have written: Now here's my variant of your example, with all font characters showing correctly, and constructed where necessary. Wow! Thanks very much. That looks very useful, if somewhat beyond my present understanding. Much appreciated, cf

Re: [XeTeX] [OS X TeX] Accented characters in Xe(La)TeX

2010-05-31 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 01.06.2010 um 00:03 schrieb Ross Moore: Now here's my variant of your example, with all font characters showing correctly, and constructed where necessary. Ross, the correct code points are: [Ẅ] 1E84 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W WITH DIAERESIS [ẅ] 1E85 LATIN SMALL LETTER W

Re: [XeTeX] [OS X TeX] Accented characters in Xe(La)TeX

2010-05-31 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 31.05.2010 um 23:31 schrieb cfr...@imapmail.org: Attached: source and pdf On Leopard I see no difference between "Venturis ADF" and "But"... -- Greetings Pete Windows, c'est un peu comme le beaujolais nouveau: à chaque nouvelle cuvée on sait que ce sera dégueulasse, mais on en pren

Re: [XeTeX] Weird character swap when using xelatex+fontspec+listings

2010-05-31 Thread Nikos Platis
You can try the "minted" package, which is compatible with XeLaTeX but requires an external Python script to do the actual formatting. If you are working in Windows it may require some effort to make it work. Nikos Platis On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 00:17, Eelis van der Weegen wrote: > On 2010-05-30

Re: [XeTeX] [OS X TeX] Accented characters in Xe(La)TeX

2010-05-31 Thread cfrees
On Tue 1st Jun, 2010 at 06:48, Ross Moore seems to have written: Fontspec also gives you the option to tell XeTeX the particular font file to be used. Try that for ADF Venturis! How is this done? When I put in a full path, as in \newfontfamily\venturisregularfont{/Users/rossmoor/Library/Fonts

Re: [XeTeX] Weird character swap when using xelatex+fontspec+listings

2010-05-31 Thread Eelis van der Weegen
On 2010-05-30 22:30, Alan Munn wrote: > This is a problem with the listings package, which is incompatible with > UTF-8 encoded files. > > I don't think there's a solution. On 2010-05-30 22:54, Philipp Stephani wrote: > The listings package hasn't been updated for a long time and is completely Uni

[XeTeX] weird behaviour with LetterSpace

2010-05-31 Thread Pablo Rodríguez
Hi there, I have just accidentally discovered that LetterSpace behaves differently if the whole paragraph is set with this feature or not. The minimal example: \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont{Theano Didot} \begin{document} χαλεπὰ \addfontfeature{LetterSpace=12

Re: [XeTeX] unicode-math testing

2010-05-31 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
Hello Mariusz, I have accidentally deleted your message regarding the underbraces, but it seems they work with the old version of unicode-math I have still installed in my system. See the attached files. Kind regards, A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece http://

Re: [XeTeX] Question about polyglossia and babel

2010-05-31 Thread Alexander
2010/5/31, Vadim Radionov : > Vladimir, > > You know, that Russian babel short-hands do slightly more than just insert a > glyph from the font: they adjust the spacing around the em-dash (and the > length of the dash, too), and allow hyphenation of adjacent words (in case > of hyphens). So even in

[XeTeX] Problems building xetex with protusion

2010-05-31 Thread Stephen Moye
I have googled to no avail. When I run ./configure (Mac OS 10.6.3, TL2009), I get this odd message: configure: You requested to build `web2c' using an installed `kpathsea' version, configure: which requires to locate the header file. configure: error: Sorry, not found under any of: /usr/incl

[XeTeX] Problems building xetex with protusion

2010-05-31 Thread Stephen Moye
I have googled to no avail. When I run ./configure (Mac OS 10.6.3, TL2009), I get this odd message: configure: You requested to build `web2c' using an installed `kpathsea' version, configure: which requires to locate the header file. configure: error: Sorry, not found under any of: /usr/incl

Re: [XeTeX] Question about polyglossia and babel

2010-05-31 Thread François Charette
On 31/05/2010 12:35, Vadim Radionov wrote: Vladimir, You know, that Russian babel short-hands do slightly more than just insert a glyph from the font: they adjust the spacing around the em-dash (and the length of the dash, too), and allow hyphenation of adjacent words (in case of hyphens). So e

Re: [XeTeX] Question about polyglossia and babel

2010-05-31 Thread Vadim Radionov
Vladimir, You know, that Russian babel short-hands do slightly more than just insert a glyph from the font: they adjust the spacing around the em-dash (and the length of the dash, too), and allow hyphenation of adjacent words (in case of hyphens). So even in the case of Unicode input we need some

Re: [XeTeX] Question about polyglossia and babel

2010-05-31 Thread Vladimir Lomov
** Alexander [2010-05-29 10:57:05 +0900]: > Hello. What the best way to use commands "--- and others (works in > babel with Russian language) in XeTeX with polyglossia? xe(la)tex is Unicode-aware tex engine so you don't need any special package or command to insert dashes. So just insert them into

Re: [XeTeX] unicode-math testing

2010-05-31 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
> Khaled seems to have pinpointed the common source of all of these troubles > with garbled PDF files. I hope that now somebody contacts Jonathan Kew > about it. He reads this list and addresses the outstanding issues on a regular basis; just leave him the time to do so :-) Arthur ---

Re: [XeTeX] [OS X TeX] Accented characters in Xe(La)TeX

2010-05-31 Thread njwust
The faulty display of some characters on top of each other on Mac OS looks very much like what I've experienced with my pig latin font Entiumgay. In that font, my suspicion was that it's related to the numerous AAT glyph insertions and deletions (glyph deletion means replacement by the .nul

Re: [XeTeX] Bug: unicode-math's \stemathfont segfaults on TeX Live 2009

2010-05-31 Thread Nikos Platis
I suppose your architecture is x86_64? On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 21:07, Gerrit Ansmann wrote: > Hello, > > following the recommendation of Will Robertson I am describing my problem > here. A former post can be found here: > http://github.com/wspr/unicode-math/issues#issue/96 > > I am using Debian