Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem for dialogue poetry

2010-10-10 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 10/10/2010 14:16, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) a écrit : Paul, in which dialect(s) of TeX does \quitvmode exist ? Paul Isambert wrote: \def\persona#1{% \quitvmode\llap{\hbox to some length{#1\hfil}}% } Oh, right. Gareth, you should use \leavevmode instead of \quitvmode, which is a

Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem for dialogue poetry

2010-10-10 Thread Gareth Hughes
Paul Isambert wrote: Le 10/10/2010 14:16, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) a écrit : Paul, in which dialect(s) of TeX does \quitvmode exist ? Paul Isambert wrote: \def\persona#1{% \quitvmode\llap{\hbox to some length{#1\hfil}}% } Oh, right. Gareth, you should use \leavevmode

Re: [XeTeX] Bidipoem for dialogue poetry

2010-10-10 Thread Gareth Hughes
Paul Isambert wrote: That one is harder. Line number are no simple matter with traditional TeX. Question: does bidipoem starts a new paragraph with every line? Then something might be doable with \everypar. Just try this in the poem environment: \everypar{test}. If ``test'' appears at the

Re: [XeTeX] wrong kerning and slow processing with xelatex in texlive 2010

2010-10-10 Thread Vadim Radionov
Hello again, I would be very grateful if someone help me with this problem. Two examples of (presumably) right (test1.pdf) and wrong (test.pdf) kerning are attached. What can be done to investigate and fix it? Thank you in advance Vadim On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Vadim Radionov

[XeTeX] Primes and unicode-math.

2010-10-10 Thread Cole Leahy
This is more or less a continuation of the thread at http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2010-October/018741.html. Unfortunately, I don't know how to include this message in that thread, since I don't actually receive email from this list. Please excuse me. Anyway, Khaled's suggestion from that thread

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-10 Thread Gareth Hughes
David Perry wrote: This seems to be my day for font problems. 1. What is the correct way to specify a font in exact point size when running XeLaTeX? (This is for the cover page of a book where \Huge isn't big enough.) The LaTeX command \fontsize{60}{66pt} does not work -- it comes out

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-10 Thread Alan Munn
On Oct 10, 2010, at 4:26 PM, David Perry wrote: This seems to be my day for font problems. 1. What is the correct way to specify a font in exact point size when running XeLaTeX? (This is for the cover page of a book where \Huge isn't big enough.) The LaTeX command \fontsize{60}{66pt}

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-10 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 10.10.2010 um 22:26 schrieb David Perry: he LaTeX command \fontsize{60}{66pt} does not work Did you add \selectfont? -- Greetings Pete What's the difference between OS X and Vista? Microsoft employees are excited about OS X… --

Re: [XeTeX] Primes and unicode-math.

2010-10-10 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 04:19:25PM -0400, Cole Leahy wrote: This is more or less a continuation of the thread at http://tug.org/pipermail/ xetex/2010-October/018741.html. Unfortunately, I don't know how to include this message in that thread, since I don't actually receive email from this

Re: [XeTeX] wrong kerning and slow processing with xelatex in texlive 2010

2010-10-10 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 10.10.2010 um 21:48 schrieb Vadim Radionov: What can be done to investigate and fix it? Instead of citing the whole old message it could have been interesting to see the different sources which lead to so different outputs... BTW, \listfiles can be a nice part of a preamble. It also

Re: [XeTeX] wrong kerning and slow processing with xelatex in texlive 2010

2010-10-10 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 11.10.2010 um 00:29 schrieb Vadim Radionov: \textsc{та} Do Cyrillic small capital letters exist? I would have thought they're typical Latin... -- Greetings Pete It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

Re: [XeTeX] wrong kerning and slow processing with xelatex in texlive 2010

2010-10-10 Thread Vadim Radionov
Do Cyrillic small capital letters exist? I would have thought they're typical Latin... Only few cyrillic letter have different capital shapes, probably that's why they are no so popular. Anyway, many perfect modern fonts have them. I don't have fontspec version 2.x around, but Will wrote that

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-10 Thread David Perry
On 10/10/2010 5:31 PM, Alan Munn wrote: On Oct 10, 2010, at 4:26 PM, David Perry wrote: This seems to be my day for font problems. 1. What is the correct way to specify a font in exact point size when running XeLaTeX? (This is for the cover page of a book where \Huge isn't big enough.) The

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-10 Thread Alan Munn
On Oct 10, 2010, at 10:48 PM, David Perry wrote: On 10/10/2010 5:31 PM, Alan Munn wrote: On Oct 10, 2010, at 4:26 PM, David Perry wrote: This seems to be my day for font problems. 1. What is the correct way to specify a font in exact point size when running XeLaTeX? (This is for the

Re: [XeTeX] Font nuisances

2010-10-10 Thread David Perry
Yes, I just realized that my example from the fontspec manual was not exactly parallel to the situation I have. However, doing it as Gareth suggests generates all sorts of nasty error messages. I just tried specifying the bold etc. by font file names; no errors, but no bold in the document