Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort[slightly OT]

2010-09-28 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Heh, Michiel and Khaled, Slow a minute take a deep breath. No need to get nasty! TeX and the use thereof is quite intimidated at first. Their is a big learning curve. That goes also using editors that work with the TeX-System. One has to learn to use each properly. This is the biggest reason

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-28 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 28.09.2010 um 02:20 schrieb David J. Perry: As a relative newcomer to Xe(La)TeX, and proponent of Unicode and multilingual computing for 15+ years, I was very surprised by the lack of Unicode support in the TeX world. I think what lshort and other tutorials need is a very clear and

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort[slightly OT]

2010-09-28 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 09:50:53AM +0200, Keith J. Schultz wrote: Heh, Michiel and Khaled, Slow a minute take a deep breath. No need to get nasty! Sorry if I offended any one, non was intended. I just wanted to point that no one really cares about UI inconsistency (except UI nazis, of course

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-28 Thread Tobias Schoel
Hi, this discussion does indeed seem to get hot. (Wrong adjective?) The arguments concerning user expectance and user experience of windows UI have been exchanged, (The simples solution -- porting kile to windoof and using a pdf viewer which doesn't grabhold its file -- is of course out of

[XeTeX] Two footnote bugs in Memoir with Bidi

2010-09-28 Thread Rik
This was posted to c.t.t on 14 September but drew no responses. I have been using Memoir with XeLaTeX and Bidi (brought in by Polyglossia to support RTL languages). Two footnote problems have arisen. The first is that memoir's \multfootsep does not get inserted between consecutive \footnote

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-28 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 28.09.2010 um 16:20 schrieb Tobias Schoel: Can we now come back to the beginning problem: Which way of creating unicode-encoded .tex-documents to propose in lshort? Using GNU Emacs 23.x – the Unicode Emacs (and any of its variants) – with its AUCTeX extension. One can either set all

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-28 Thread Janusz S. Bień
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 Peter Dyballa peter_dyba...@web.de wrote: Am 28.09.2010 um 16:20 schrieb Tobias Schoel: Can we now come back to the beginning problem: Which way of creating unicode-encoded .tex-documents to propose in lshort? Using GNU Emacs 23.x √ the Unicode Emacs (and any of its

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-28 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 28.09.2010 um 21:16 schrieb Peter Dyballa: Am 28.09.2010 um 16:20 schrieb Tobias Schoel: Can we now come back to the beginning problem: Which way of creating unicode-encoded .tex-documents to propose in lshort? Using GNU Emacs 23.x – the Unicode Emacs (and any of its variants) – with

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-28 Thread José Carlos Santos
On 28-09-2010 21:44, Philipp Stephani wrote: Can we now come back to the beginning problem: Which way of creating unicode-encoded .tex-documents to propose in lshort? Using GNU Emacs 23.x – the Unicode Emacs (and any of its variants) – with its AUCTeX extension. I use the same technology,

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-28 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 28.09.2010 um 22:44 schrieb Philipp Stephani: Am 28.09.2010 um 21:16 schrieb Peter Dyballa: Am 28.09.2010 um 16:20 schrieb Tobias Schoel: Can we now come back to the beginning problem: Which way of creating unicode-encoded .tex-documents to propose in lshort? Using GNU Emacs 23.x –

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-28 Thread David J. Perry
Windoof user have to be hardened by ugly UI. What about losedos? I am (mostly) a Windows user but am neither stupid nor a loser. All OSs have their imperfections, people have different reasons for what they use, so let's stay on task here without insults. David

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-28 Thread Herbert Schulz
On Sep 28, 2010, at 4:42 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote: Am 28.09.2010 um 22:44 schrieb Philipp Stephani: Am 28.09.2010 um 21:16 schrieb Peter Dyballa: Am 28.09.2010 um 16:20 schrieb Tobias Schoel: Can we now come back to the beginning problem: Which way of creating unicode-encoded

Re: [XeTeX] Two footnote bugs in Memoir with Bidi

2010-09-28 Thread Vafa Khalighi
Does this happen with ordinary book class? if not, then this is not my issue and you should direct it to memoir's authors. -- به نام خداوند جان و خرد کزین برتر اندیشه برنگذرد -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.:

[XeTeX] Monospace font, not being set in monospace

2010-09-28 Thread mskala
I'd like to use the commercial font Pro Typewriter Underwood, from http://www.vintagetype.com/, with XeLaTeX, to produce a close approximation of old-style typewriter output. But I can't get it to correctly recognize that the font is a monospace font for the purposes of inter-sentence spacing.

[XeTeX] Small caps bug in fontspec

2010-09-28 Thread Andrew Moschou
Hi all, It seems setting Numbers=OldStyle breaks \scshape. This example uses Sabon, but it happens with other fonts too. My fontspec version is 2.1a. Andrew \documentclass{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont{Sabon LT Std} \begin{document} Some text {\scshape in small caps}? Yes.