Re: [XeTeX] Compatibility issues with ednotes and pstricks or TikZ

2011-09-24 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Mathew, I think you are being a bit unfair towards Vafa! LaTeX, et al are highly complex. The advent of unicode has not made things easier. The problem is not that bidi or the other package is faulty, but in the way it is done, so that when then two are used together the result is not what

Re: [XeTeX] extra space after single Hebrew word

2011-09-24 Thread VAFA KHALIGHI
This is clearly caused by \eq@if macro in bidi.sty. It is a bug. There supposed to be %s after \let#1#3 and \let#2#3. Sorry for this. I upload a newer version today to CTAN. On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Gildas Hamel gwel...@ucsc.edu wrote: Dear Xe(La)TeXers, I get a space after the Hebrew

Re: [XeTeX] Shadow with Xelatex

2011-09-24 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:51:10 +0200 schrieb Peter Dyballa: And the same list of commands when I typesset with latex instead of xelatex is succesfull. PSTricks are written for the pdfTeX engine. XeTeX uses a different engine which supports some of the PSTricks. You could try LuaTeX... Well

Re: [XeTeX] extra space after single Hebrew word

2011-09-24 Thread Gildas Hamel
Thank you for identifying and correcting the bug so rapidly. No need to apologize. I greatly appreciate and admire your work. -- Gildas On Sep 23, 2011, at 23:34, VAFA KHALIGHI vafa...@gmail.com wrote: This is clearly caused by \eq@if macro in bidi.sty. It is a bug. There supposed to be %s

[XeTeX] Strange behaviour xelatex/fontspec/Windows

2011-09-24 Thread rhino64
Hi All, When using xelatex and fontspec (from updated TeXLive 2011) and specifying font by file name under Windows, The font cannot be loaded and a strange error message saying the name contains a blank is displayed. The error message displayed in DOS command windows is:

Re: [XeTeX] Strange behaviour xelatex/fontspec/Windows

2011-09-24 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
OK with TeX Live 2010. Philip Taylor rhin...@postmail.ch wrote: \documentclass[12pt,draft]{article} \usepackage{iftex} \usepackage{fontspec} \ifXeTeX %Traitement des ligatures classiques de TeX \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text} \else %LuaTeX a une

[XeTeX] polyglossia and french

2011-09-24 Thread rhino64
Hi All, When typesetting documents in french with polyglossia, a space is added before double punctuation signs (like !:?...). This is normal in french typography used in France. However, here in Switzerland, it is more usual to not use this extra space. For the Babel package, I have written

Re: [XeTeX] polyglossia and french

2011-09-24 Thread Alan Munn
On Sep 24, 2011, at 3:34 PM, rhin...@postmail.ch wrote: Hi All, When typesetting documents in french with polyglossia, a space is added before double punctuation signs (like !:?...). This is normal in french typography used in France. However, here in Switzerland, it is more usual to

Re: [XeTeX] polyglossia and french

2011-09-24 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 22:55, Alan Munn wrote: On Sep 24, 2011, at 3:34 PM, rhin...@postmail.ch wrote: Hi All,    When typesetting documents in french with polyglossia, a space is added before double punctuation signs (like !:?...). This is normal in french typography used in France.

Re: [XeTeX] polyglossia and french

2011-09-24 Thread Alan Munn
On Sep 24, 2011, at 8:07 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 22:55, Alan Munn wrote: On Sep 24, 2011, at 3:34 PM, rhin...@postmail.ch wrote: Hi All, When typesetting documents in french with polyglossia, a space is added before double punctuation signs (like !:?...).