Re: [XeTeX] embedding fonts

2010-06-04 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 6/3/2010 8:37 AM, hh-bra...@bol.com.br wrote: Is there a way to ensure that adobe distiller or acrobat pro embed the full fonts in the pdf-document produced with xelatex. Or can you name any program which can do that. The printing houses insist on full fonts because that way they can

[XeTeX] XeTeX and luaTeX

2010-06-04 Thread Kirk Lowery
In a recent thread here, luaTeX was said to be the intended eventual replacement for pdfTeX. Since luaTeX is Unicode-based, and handles OpenType fonts, what is the future of XeTeX? Will XeTeX continue to be developed? Should we be following and experimenting with luaTeX in anticipation of a move

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX and luaTeX

2010-06-04 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
In a recent thread here, luaTeX was said to be the intended eventual replacement for pdfTeX. This piece of information is based on earlier plans of the pdfTeX and LuaTeX teams, when the intention was indeed that LuaTeX would become pdfTeX 2.0 when it reached maturity. Now the plans have

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX and luaTeX

2010-06-04 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
Is there any kind of feature comparison between XeTeX and luaTeX? None that I know of. My primary needs are, besides general (La)TeX functionality, Unicode processing of combining characters and handling of OpenType fonts. The output should be

Re: [XeTeX] embedding fonts

2010-06-04 Thread Michiel Kamermans
hh, Of course I'm aware that some fonts are available at most as subsets as they are protected by the owners. But anyway, there should be an option to embed the full font if possible. Also the standard fonts (e.g. Helvetica) should be embedded, bacause there are just too many version

[XeTeX] XITS Math font - first beata

2010-06-04 Thread Khaled Hosny
As promised, the OpenType MATH enriched version of STIX fonts, XITS, is now available. This early version provides: * OpenType math constants values, necessary for proper layout of various math elements. * proper math accent positioning. * proper sub/superscript positioning (not fine tuned

[XeTeX] Solved -- Was: Re: Typesetting XeLaTeX and LaTeX logo under MacTeX 2009

2010-06-04 Thread Iwan Setyawan
Hi Will, Thanks for the solution! The new file fixed the problem. Everything seems to be working correctly now. Regards, - Iwan On Jun 4, 2010, at 1:01 PM, Will Robertson wrote: On 2010-06-03 23:45:37 +0930, Iwan Setyawan iwan.setyawan-ekmvuln5...@public.gmane.org said:

[XeTeX] Python Project: PDF Optimization

2010-06-04 Thread Rob Oakes
Dear XeTeX Mailing List, As a quick way of introduction, my name is Rob Oakes. I tend to mostly be a lurker here, but I greatly appreciate the many individuals here who patiently answer questions. I've learned a great deal from many. With that said, I am writing regarding a project idea that

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

2010-06-04 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 31.05.2010 um 23:31 schrieb cfr...@imapmail.org: Attached: source and pdf The effect is certainly Tiger based. I used the Venturis fonts from TeX Live 2008 and 2009 (the files have not changed between release dates). I cleared font and application caches before switching to the

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

2010-06-04 Thread Pablo Rodríguez
On 06/01/2010 09:22 PM, John Was wrote: Hello Pablo [...] So the lines to paste in before a Greek passage (to see if they would work) are: \font \myfont = MinionPro-Regular:+onum:mapping=tex-text:letterspace=12 at 12pt \tolerance 500 \myfont \uselanguage{ancientgreek} That should give you

Re: [XeTeX] Python Project: PDF Optimization

2010-06-04 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Joachim, Actually, I did. In my original posting, perhaps I should have been more specific. I was trying to find a GUI utility which would allow for these functions and also allow for a finer degree of control than I've been able to obtain with the command line utilities. Eventually

Re: [XeTeX] XITS Math font - first beata

2010-06-04 Thread wodzicki
Thank you for the upload. This early version provides: (...) * proper sub/superscript positioning (not fine tuned yet). Yes, I can see that some superscripts/subscripts are positioned slightly too close to the corresponding symbol (e.g. 'l' in $t^l$) * extensible radicals, delimiters

Re: [XeTeX] Solved -- Was: Re: Typesetting XeLaTeX and LaTeX logo under MacTeX 2009

2010-06-04 Thread Will Robertson
On 2010-06-05 00:17:16 +0930, Iwan Setyawan iwan.setya...@ieee.org said: Thanks for the solution! The new file fixed the problem. Everything seems to be working correctly now. FWIW, I (attempt to) always tag releases on Github when they're sent to CTAN, so you can always get historical