Re: [XeTeX] custom footnote rules w/ ednotes, polyglossia bidi

2010-07-26 Thread tala...@fastmail.fm
Hello Alan, Beautiful. Yes, it now works perfectly, and without any errors. Thank you so much. Perhaps even more importantly in the long run, I have learnt a bit about making newcommands for the footnote rules. In order for me to further this education on my own, where would I have had to

Re: [XeTeX] custom footnote rules w/ ednotes, polyglossia bidi

2010-07-26 Thread Vafa Khalighi
Perhaps even more importantly in the long run, I have learnt a bit about making newcommands for the footnote rules. In order for me to further this education on my own, where would I have had to look to know about how to write commands such as: \makeatletter

Re: [XeTeX] Fontspec V3+ (was : fontspec manual 10.17 (scripts/languages))

2010-07-26 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:57:45AM +0100, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: David Perry wrote: (concerning the current version of Fontspec : full text at-end) and I left the message flagged for attention because there were points raised in it that suggested that at present, Fontspec

Re: [XeTeX] custom footnote rules w/ ednotes, polyglossia bidi

2010-07-26 Thread Alan Munn
On Jul 26, 2010, at 7:53 AM, tala...@fastmail.fm wrote: Hello Alan, Beautiful. Yes, it now works perfectly, and without any errors. Thank you so much. Good. I'm glad it does what you need. Perhaps even more importantly in the long run, I have learnt a bit about making newcommands for

[XeTeX] Pipes in XeTeX

2010-07-26 Thread Florian Gilcher
Hi, I really like the following feature of pdftex and others for development purposes: \input{|darcs changes -s} % print a detailed log of changes and include that into my document as a running log for other reviewers. Sure, it requires --shell-escape and --enable-write18, but thats just

Re: [XeTeX] Listings and copy/paste

2010-07-26 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 07:39:46PM +0200, Le Farfadet Spatial wrote: \setmonofont[Mapping=tex-text]{DejaVu Sans Mono} Don't use Mapping=tex-text in your mono font, it does specifically what you are trying to avoid. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org

Re: [XeTeX] polyglossia Greek Hebrew not working

2010-07-26 Thread François Charette
On 24/07/2010 18:13, David Perry wrote: Can anyone see what's wrong with the following minimal example? (A bit long, I know, but I trimmed it as much as I could.) It's probably something silly but I just can't see it. I get all kinds of undefined control sequences and so forth when I

Re: [XeTeX] Listings and copy/paste

2010-07-26 Thread Le Farfadet Spatial
Hello everybody out there! On 07/26/2010 21:05, Khaled Hosny wrote: Don't use Mapping=tex-text in your mono font, it does specifically what you are trying to avoid. Thank you: it has solved the first and most important trouble that is non-ASCII characters in copy/past. Has

Re: [XeTeX] Fake old-style figures small-caps with XeTeX?

2010-07-26 Thread Ernest Adrogué
23/07/10 @ 17:12 (+0200), thus spake enrico.grego...@univr.it: Hi! Is it possible to generate fake old-style figures small capitals for fonts missing these glyphs with XeTeX. I used to use the mathpoz package that does exactly that, but something tells me it's not compatible with

Re: [XeTeX] problems with some fonts

2010-07-26 Thread Ernest Adrogué
23/07/10 @ 17:45 (+0200), thus spake Peter Dyballa: Am 23.07.2010 um 11:21 schrieb Ernest Adrogué: This is what I get: $ fc-list : file family fullname | grep -i beteckna /usr/share/fonts/truetype/beteckna/ BetecknaLowerCaseItalicCondensed.ttf:

[XeTeX] xetex bug (unicode bidi in AAT fonts versus unicode bidi in open type fonts)

2010-07-26 Thread Vafa Khalighi
I noticed a bug about unicode bidi in AAT font; the unicode bidi behaviour in AAT is different to open type fonts. WIth AAT font, if you typeset left Persian quote (»), in the output you get right Persian quote («) and vice versa. These should not be mirrored. Furthur with opentype fonts, if

Re: [XeTeX] xetex bug (unicode bidi in AAT fonts versus unicode bidi in open type fonts)

2010-07-26 Thread Vafa Khalighi
Interestingly, the bug of mirroring Persian quote happens with Persian Isiri 2901 keyboard layout in macos x 10.6.4. With L, you get left Persian quote and with K, you get right Persian quote which is exactly the opposite of what it should be. -- Best wishes, Vafa Khalighi