Re: [XeTeX] Text on a path (was : Drop-shadows with outline fontsin XeTeX ?)

2011-06-02 Thread John Was
Hi I think PSTricks (which is automatically available in plain XeTeX) should allow this. See the PSTricks manual, and some sample code at: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=q=pstricks+tp-test.pssourceid=navclient-ffrlz=1B3GGLL_en-GBGB380GB380ie=UTF-8 Hope this helps. John - Original

Re: [XeTeX] Text on a path (was : Drop-shadows with outline fontsin XeTeX ?)

2011-06-02 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Thank you, John : I have never previously considered using PSTricks, living solely in a PDF world, but if as you say PSTricks work with XeTeX, that would be a great plus. Unfortunately my very first attempt failed : the text comes out horribly mangled, and horizontal, not curved, and the

Re: [XeTeX] Text on a path (was : Drop-shadows with outline fontsin XeTeX ?)

2011-06-02 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
P.S. This fragment, dated 2008, may refer : I think Akira Kakuto once mentioned that a text following a path is not yet implemented in xdvipdfmx ... ** Phil. -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.:

Re: [XeTeX] error \begin{document}

2011-06-02 Thread Ruth Robbins
I've added below the error message that I get /grammar.aux) Runaway definition? -\LT@entry {1}{44.51369pt}\LT@entry {1}{42.15236pt}\LT@entry {1} {78.\ETC. ./grammar.tex:34: File ended while scanning definition of \LT@x. inserted text } l.34 \begin{document} ? H I suspect you

Re: [XeTeX] error \begin{document}

2011-06-02 Thread Ruth Robbins
just tried desperate measures--trashed the aux files and then ran the typesetting again and it worked. So something must have been wrong with an aux file. Ruth On Jun 1, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote: On Jun 1, 2011, at 4:01 PM, Ruth Robbins wrote: Here's everything up until

Re: [XeTeX] error \begin{document}

2011-06-02 Thread Gareth Hughes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/06/11 18:57, Ruth Robbins wrote: just tried desperate measures--trashed the aux files and then ran the typesetting again and it worked. So something must have been wrong with an aux file. Ruth Hi Ruth! Deleting the aux file before

Re: [XeTeX] error \begin{document}

2011-06-02 Thread Ruth Robbins
Thanks for the tip about looking at the aux files. Where do i go to look at those? ruth On Jun 2, 2011, at 4:10 PM, Ross Moore wrote: On 03/06/2011, at 7:54 AM, Gareth Hughes wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/06/11 18:57, Ruth Robbins wrote: just tried desperate

Re: [XeTeX] error \begin{document}

2011-06-02 Thread Ross Moore
Hello Ruth On 03/06/2011, at 10:03 AM, Ruth Robbins wrote: Thanks for the tip about looking at the aux files. Where do i go to look at those? In the same directory/folder as your LaTeX source. Same name, but with .aux as the extension. Any text editor should be able to open and read it.