Re: [XeTeX] xunicode and TIPA

2010-07-28 Thread Ross Moore
Hi Alan, On 29/07/2010, at 8:34 AM, Alan Munn wrote: > Thanks, Ross. What I'm mainly looking for is a fairly simple way of using > legacy TIPA code, and I don't know whether this would cause any problems or > not. I also don't quite know how much xunicode itself emulates TIPA and how > much

Re: [XeTeX] problem with flashcards, polyglossia and RTL-languages

2010-07-28 Thread Vafa Khalighi
having \documentclass[avery5371,frame,grid]{flashcards} \begin{document} \begin{flashcard}{texttexttext} texttexttext \end{flashcard} \end{document} as my document and running either pdflatex or xelatex, I get this error: ! Package geometry Error: \paperwidth (0.0pt) too short. See the

Re: [XeTeX] xunicode and TIPA

2010-07-28 Thread Alan Munn
On Jul 28, 2010, at 5:37 PM, Ross Moore wrote: Hi Ulrike and Alan, On 29/07/2010, at 4:03 AM, Ulrike Fischer wrote: I know the definition for the IPA environment isn't correct; what I want is characters inside that environment to be interpreted in the same way that they are within the \textip

Re: [XeTeX] xunicode and TIPA

2010-07-28 Thread Ross Moore
Hi Ulrike and Alan, On 29/07/2010, at 4:03 AM, Ulrike Fischer wrote: >> I know the definition for the IPA environment isn't correct; what I >> want is characters inside that environment to be interpreted in the >> same way that they are within the \textipa command provided by xunicode. > > Y

[XeTeX] problem with flashcards, polyglossia and RTL-languages

2010-07-28 Thread Fabian Rieger
Hi, using flashcards class in combination with polyglossia and RTL languages I met a problem that wasn't there 6 months ago or so: As soon as I add just a line of \setotherlanguage{arabic-or-farsi-or-hebrew-or-syriac} (no arabic etc. text is required for this effect), the text on both sides

Re: [XeTeX] Pipes in XeTeX

2010-07-28 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 28.07.2010 um 14:40 schrieb Florian Gilcher: Now, I would try my theory if i could just get XeTeX (or, more specifically, the bundled ICU) to build from sources on Snow Leopard... You could try to build a 32-bit binary... -- Mit friedvollen Grüßen Pete Der Unterschied zwischen The

Re: [XeTeX] xunicode and TIPA

2010-07-28 Thread Alan Munn
On Jul 28, 2010, at 2:03 PM, Ulrike Fischer wrote: Am Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:25:30 -0400 schrieb Alan Munn: Hi The xunicode package provides a textipa command which recognizes (most of?) the commands from the tipa package. This is very useful, since it allows one to convert legacy documents

[XeTeX] pstricks and dvi output in xelatex

2010-07-28 Thread George
Is it possible to use pstricks in xelatex and get a dvi output so I can use the auto-updating feature of yap? I have a document that uses pstricks and diagrams don't show up correctly after compiling with xelatex because of the conversion to pdf. If I save to xdv then I can't view the file with yap

Re: [XeTeX] xunicode and TIPA

2010-07-28 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:25:30 -0400 schrieb Alan Munn: > Hi > > The xunicode package provides a textipa command which recognizes (most > of?) the commands from the tipa package. This is very useful, since > it allows one to convert legacy documents containing IPA to xelatex > with minimal t

Re: [XeTeX] xunicode and TIPA

2010-07-28 Thread Alan Munn
On Jul 28, 2010, at 11:56 AM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: I know the definition for the IPA environment isn't correct; what I want is characters inside that environment to be interpreted in the same way that they are within the \textipa command provided by xunicode. What you want is a mappi

Re: [XeTeX] xunicode and TIPA

2010-07-28 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Alan Munn wrote: On Jul 28, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Maybe you could hack something better along these lines, Alan : That works within the environment, but is there a way to incorporate into the environment definition itself? (Otherwise it defeats the purp

Re: [XeTeX] ** ERROR ** sfnt: Freetype failure...

2010-07-28 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 7/28/2010 6:14 AM, tala...@fastmail.fm wrote: I have just run the two problematic files through a piece of Mac software called "textsoap", which "cleans up" the text. Apparently, there were some hidden, offending glyphs or characters that were causing the problem. The file now compiles fine

Re: [XeTeX] fontspec: loading different shapes/scales of one font as different font instances?

2010-07-28 Thread David Perry
The memoir class provides all sorts of options for redefining things, including the chapter/section headings. I have never tried redefining the TOC but I wouldn't be surprised if memoir has provision for that too. David BPJ wrote: As the subject line says I wonder if it's possible with fonts

Re: [XeTeX] xunicode and TIPA

2010-07-28 Thread Alan Munn
On Jul 28, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Maybe you could hack something better along these lines, Alan : % !TEX TS-program = XeLaTeX \documentclass{article} \usepackage{xltxtra} \newfontfamily{\ipafont}{Doulos SIL} \def\useTIPAfont{\ipafont} \newenvironment{IPA}{\ip

Re: [XeTeX] xunicode and TIPA

2010-07-28 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
> I know the definition for the IPA environment isn't correct; what I want > is characters inside that environment to be interpreted in the same way > that they are within the \textipa command provided by xunicode. What you want is a mapping from tipa's transliteration system to the correspond

Re: [XeTeX] xunicode and TIPA

2010-07-28 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Maybe you could hack something better along these lines, Alan : % !TEX TS-program = XeLaTeX \documentclass{article} \usepackage{xltxtra} \newfontfamily{\ipafont}{Doulos SIL} \def\useTIPAfont{\ipafont} \newenvironment{IPA}{\ipafont}{} % I know this isn't sufficient \begin{document} \textipa{RPAQIO

[XeTeX] xunicode and TIPA

2010-07-28 Thread Alan Munn
Hi The xunicode package provides a textipa command which recognizes (most of?) the commands from the tipa package. This is very useful, since it allows one to convert legacy documents containing IPA to xelatex with minimal trouble. However, the tipa package also provided an IPA environm

Re: [XeTeX] ** ERROR ** sfnt: Freetype failure...

2010-07-28 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
> I have just run the two problematic files through a piece of Mac software > called "textsoap", which "cleans up" the text. Apparently, there were some > hidden, offending glyphs or characters that were causing the problem. The > file now compiles fine using Baskerville 10 Pro. Would you be

[XeTeX] fontspec: loading different shapes/scales of one font as different font instances?

2010-07-28 Thread BPJ
As the subject line says I wonder if it's possible with fontspec to load different shapes of the same font as different font instances? The thing is I'm going to write a script which generates XeLaTeX source and where the user is to be able to choose their own fonts/shapes/sizes for elements like

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

2010-07-28 Thread cfrees
On Wed 28th Jul, 2010 at 03:00, Ernest Adrogué seems to have written: 27/07/10 @ 20:47 (+0100), thus spake cfr...@imapmail.org: On Tue 27th Jul, 2010 at 09:48, Khaled Hosny seems to have written: On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 02:36:45AM +0200, Ernest Adrogué wrote: 23/07/10 @ 17:12 (+0200), thus s

Re: [XeTeX] Pipes in XeTeX

2010-07-28 Thread Florian Gilcher
On Jul 28, 2010, at 1:05 PM, Will Robertson wrote: > On 2010-07-27 00:07:02 +0930, Florian Gilcher said: > >> 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 docu

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

2010-07-28 Thread Ernest Adrogué
27/07/10 @ 20:47 (+0100), thus spake cfr...@imapmail.org: > On Tue 27th Jul, 2010 at 09:48, Khaled Hosny seems to have written: > > >On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 02:36:45AM +0200, Ernest Adrogué wrote: > >>23/07/10 @ 17:12 (+0200), thus spake enrico.grego...@univr.it: > Hi! > > Is it possi

Re: [XeTeX] ** ERROR ** sfnt: Freetype failure...

2010-07-28 Thread tala...@fastmail.fm
I have just run the two problematic files through a piece of Mac software called "textsoap", which "cleans up" the text. Apparently, there were some hidden, offending glyphs or characters that were causing the problem. The file now compiles fine using Baskerville 10 Pro. Many thanks for your ti

Re: [XeTeX] Pipes in XeTeX

2010-07-28 Thread Will Robertson
On 2010-07-27 00:07:02 +0930, Florian Gilcher said: 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

Re: [XeTeX] ** ERROR ** sfnt: Freetype failure...

2010-07-28 Thread tala...@fastmail.fm
Strange. The font is a contemporary font, produced as I said by StormType Foundry. It is an .odt font. I have successfully typeset an entire book using this font with XeLaTeX earlier this year. Just to check that my system hasn't changed somehow, I opened up the .tex file of that book again and

Re: [XeTeX] ** ERROR ** sfnt: Freetype failure...

2010-07-28 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 28.07.2010 um 04:41 schrieb tala...@fastmail.fm: ** ERROR ** sfnt: Freetype failure... This proprietary Classic Mac font format is not supported. By good reason: it neither exhibits features nor does it have tables useful for typesetting. -- Greetings Pete The human brain operat