Re: [XeTeX] How to load pstricks?

2011-02-03 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Wed, 2 Feb 2011 11:50:39 +0100 schrieb Sven Siegmund: Actually I am not sure what helped. Before I tried to uninstall and reinstall them I copied them manually in their respected location from CTAN from the path you mentioned. They were there, but I thought I must rebuild the FNDB and

Re: [XeTeX] problem rendering unicode Devanagari dependent vowel signs and ligatures

2011-02-03 Thread Richard Cobbe
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 01:00:17PM +0100, Dominik Wujastyk wrote: Following Richard's explorations, I found that Jaipur Unicode NFLC (sourcehttp://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/hindi/) also produces a visarga *without* the dotted circle. Input file below, and output PDF and font attached. I

Re: [XeTeX] Velthuis to Roman translit

2011-02-03 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 02/02/2011 23:34, Neal Delmonico a écrit : Hi All, Is there any easy way to get from Velthuis Devanagari encoding to Roman transliteration? I have lots of documents in Velthuis that I would like to switch to Roman transliteration sometimes

Re: [XeTeX] Velthuis to Roman translit

2011-02-03 Thread Neal Delmonico
Thanks Dominik, I tried the sed file and it works wonderfully, in fact a little too well. My files tend to be mixed Sanskrit and translation in which I use the standard LaTeX diacritic codes. \~n gets picked up by the sed file and converted and then XeLaTeX chokes on it. Is there a way

Re: [XeTeX] Velthuis to Roman translit

2011-02-03 Thread Neal Delmonico
Yes. I am using Emacs. How does your system work? I already use the ,emacs file for shortcut keys. Adding more should not be a problem. Thanks, Neal On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 09:00:36 -0600, François Patte francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash:

Re: [XeTeX] Velthuis to Roman translit

2011-02-03 Thread Dominik Wujastyk
Is this the issue you have come across? - http://cikitsa.blogspot.com/2010/09/xelatex-velthuis-encoding-and-palatal.html Or is it something simpler? Perhaps you can just delete the line in the sed file that produces the unwanted conversion? Sed files are dead easy to understand and to

Re: [XeTeX] Velthuis to Roman translit

2011-02-03 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 03/02/2011 19:01, Neal Delmonico a écrit : Yes. I am using Emacs. How does your system work? I already use the ,emacs file for shortcut keys. Adding more should not be a problem. ;;; programme permettant la tranformation d'un fichier codé

[XeTeX] weird behavior of a font

2011-02-03 Thread Pablo Rodríguez
Hi there, I have already reported a bug at fontconfig (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33765), but I'm experiencing a weird behavior with this font (http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/graham/fonts/fuzzyxmas.zip). I have installed it and it works fine (I only use it with

Re: [XeTeX] substitutions for missing or wrong glyphs

2011-02-03 Thread Riik Kabel
Fr. Michael Gilmary, mma frmichaelgilmary@... writes: On Feb 2 AD 2011, at 4:40 AM, Susan Dittmar wrote: I would like to use a font (several in fact, some of which are true type, others open type) which does not include all glyphs I need. For example the endash and emdash are missing,

Re: [XeTeX] problem rendering unicode Devanagari dependent vowel signs and ligatures

2011-02-03 Thread Leo Brouwer
I've run Richard's sample (with devamt.ttf, the IBM version of Devanagari MT---apparently not an exact equivalent, as it doesn't render trya correctly), and it appears to me that it's not the fonts, but the lack of* *Script=Devanagari in the font options that's causing the difference. Using

Re: [XeTeX] Velthuis to Roman translit

2011-02-03 Thread Neal Delmonico
Thanks for the suggestions. See below. On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:31:26 -0600, Dominik Wujastyk wujas...@gmail.com wrote: Wait a minute. Reading your note more carefully, I think the sed script is giving you English text with unwanted \ñ strings here and there. Is that right? If so, you

Re: [XeTeX] substitutions for missing or wrong glyphs

2011-02-03 Thread Fr. Michael Gilmary, mma
On Feb 3 AD 2011, at 10:01 AM, Rik Kabel wrote: Well, it works fine for mono-font documents, or documents in which the substitution can be assured to always within the main font, but it fails horribly in other cases. The OP indicated that she wants to work with several fonts. Consider

Re: [XeTeX] problem rendering unicode Devanagari dependent vowel signs and ligatures

2011-02-03 Thread David J. Perry
Remember that Mac and Windows/Linux use two completely different technologies to display complex scripts: OS X uses Apple's own AAT fonts, while the other two major platforms use OpenType. I've noticed some confusion, even among people on this list, about this issue. If you are comparing

Re: [XeTeX] problem rendering unicode Devanagari dependent vowel signs and ligatures

2011-02-03 Thread Richard Cobbe
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 01:05:28PM +0545, Leo Brouwer wrote: I've run Richard's sample (with devamt.ttf, the IBM version of Devanagari MT---apparently not an exact equivalent, as it doesn't render trya correctly), and it appears to me that it's not the fonts, but the lack of*

[XeTeX] \XeTeXglyphbounds question

2011-02-03 Thread Adam Twardoch (List)
(Plain XeTeX, not XeLaTeX). Imagine I use a font which uses contextual alternates such as: \font\samplefont = Zapfino Extra LT Pro:+calt at 72bp \samplefont \def \sampletext{finality} \XeTeXuseglyphmetrics=1 \setbox1 \hbox{\sampletext \/} So now, XeTeX has produced a box which has a series