Re: [XeTeX] XITS Math font - first beata

2010-06-05 Thread Will Robertson
On 2010-06-05 14:58:22 +0930, wodzi...@math.berkeley.edu said: I read your answer to my post as an admission that STIXGeneral, which covers actually all the usual 'text' blocks of the Unicode is not really suitable for text? Is it really so? My naive perhaps perception was that STIXGeneral was

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX and luaTeX

2010-06-05 Thread Pablo Rodríguez
On 06/04/2010 01:42 PM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: 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

Re: [XeTeX] XITS Math font - first beata

2010-06-05 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Will Robertson wrote: On 2010-06-06 01:28:46 +0930, Eelis van der Weegen ee...@eelis.net said: On 2010-06-04 20:31, Khaled Hosny wrote: As promised, the OpenType MATH enriched version of STIX fonts, XITS, is now available. XITS looks very neat! Are the STIX people planning to release

Re: [XeTeX] XITS Math font - first beata

2010-06-05 Thread Will Robertson
On 2010-06-06 02:54:13 +0930, Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com said: Will Robertson wrote: On 2010-06-06 01:28:46 +0930, Eelis van der Weegen ee...@eelis.net said: If so, to what extent would this make XITS obsolete? Depends how good a job they do :) And whether the current STIX

Re: [XeTeX] XITS Math font - first beata

2010-06-05 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 03:29:31PM -0300, George N. White III wrote: On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Will Robertson wsp...@gmail.com wrote: On 2010-06-06 01:28:46 +0930, Eelis van der Weegen ee...@eelis.net said: On 2010-06-04 20:31, Khaled Hosny wrote: As promised, the OpenType MATH

Re: [XeTeX] XITS Math font - first beata

2010-06-05 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 03:57:53AM +0930, Will Robertson wrote: On 2010-06-06 02:54:13 +0930, Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com said: Will Robertson wrote: On 2010-06-06 01:28:46 +0930, Eelis van der Weegen ee...@eelis.net said: If so, to what extent would this make XITS obsolete?

Re: [XeTeX] XITS Math font - first beata

2010-06-05 Thread Ulrik Vieth
On 06/05/2010 07:24 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: If so, to what extent would this make XITS obsolete? Depends how good a job they do :) And whether the current STIX release schedule is reliable. Judging from past results, it is altogether possible that v1.1 won't be ready for release for half a

Re: [XeTeX] XITS Math font - first beata

2010-06-05 Thread Ulrik Vieth
On 06/05/2010 08:54 PM, George N. White III wrote: STIX is a very ambitious project for a group (scientific and technical publishers), some who have suffered financially since the project started. I think the technical work is a very minor portion of the overall effort (e.g., getting the

Re: [XeTeX] XITS Math font - first beata

2010-06-05 Thread wodzicki
I'm actually planning to include the rest of STIX styles in some later release, STIX surpasses Termes in its Greek and Cyrillic coverage. If there is a real demand, I can do it earlier, but the only improvement I see over regular STIX will be fractions and oldstyle figures. I think it's

Re: [XeTeX] polyglossia, Spanish and indentfirst

2010-06-05 Thread enrico . gregorio
Hi there, setting Spanish as the main document language in polyglossia leaves all first paragraphs not to be indented. I'm on TL2009 and the indentfirst package doesn't work at all. How can I get indentation on first paragraphs in Spanish? The following document has its first paragraph

Re: [XeTeX] XITS Math font - first beata

2010-06-05 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 02:52:13PM -0700, wodzi...@math.berkeley.edu wrote: I'm actually planning to include the rest of STIX styles in some later release, STIX surpasses Termes in its Greek and Cyrillic coverage. If there is a real demand, I can do it earlier, but the only improvement

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

2010-06-05 Thread cfrees
On Fri 4th Jun, 2010 at 23:18, Peter Dyballa seems to have written: 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

Re: [XeTeX] Python Project: PDF Optimization

2010-06-05 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi all, Given the few responses we have had so far on this topic, it seems that the OP is right: there are many, small programs available which can do most of what is required, but each of those programs then has specific applications which it can or cannot do. To make an integrated package,

Re: [XeTeX] XITS Math font - first beata

2010-06-05 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On 06/05/2010 04:18 AM, Will Robertson wrote: If you ask me, I can add this as an option somewhere in the package. (I've seen old-style figures in maths in examples before, but never in the wild.) I have, in A. N. Whitehead’s “An Introduction to Mathematics”; search for the text “other

Re: [XeTeX] XITS Math font - first beata

2010-06-05 Thread wodzicki
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 04:02:15PM -0700, wodzi...@math.berkeley.edu wrote: On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 02:52:13PM -0700, wodzi...@math.berkeley.edu wrote: I'm actually planning to include the rest of STIX styles in some later release, STIX surpasses Termes in its Greek and Cyrillic

Re: [XeTeX] XITS Math font - first beata

2010-06-05 Thread wodzicki
You can now grap the four styles from git tree: http://github.com/khaledhosny/xits-math No proper release yet, but if no serious bugs appeared in the next 24 hours, I'll make one. For text use XITS, and XITS Math for math. Regards, Khaled Thank you very much, Khaled! That was a great