Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks

2014-04-15 Thread Philip Taylor
Khaled Hosny wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:58:23PM +0100, Philip Taylor wrote: Why are these key XeTeX primitives (\XeTeXprotrudechars, \rpcode, etc) not documented in /The XƎTEX reference guide/ ? Will, Khaled, Jonathan : can you comment on this, and will these (and any other

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks

2014-04-15 Thread Vafa Khalighi
If I recall correctly, Hàn Thế Thành added these primitives to XeTeX; therefore he knows them best. On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Philip Taylor p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk wrote: Khaled Hosny wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:58:23PM +0100, Philip Taylor wrote: Why are these key XeTeX

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks

2014-04-15 Thread Philip Taylor
OK, thank you Vafa, I will ask Thành. ** Phil. Vafa Khalighi wrote: If I recall correctly, Hàn Thế Thành added these primitives to XeTeX; therefore he knows them best. -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.:

[XeTeX] XeTeX, \XeTeXprotrudechars, \rpcode, etc.

2014-04-15 Thread Philip Taylor
Good morning Thành -- I have for some time been trying to get to the bottom of the mysterious new primitives in XeTeX that include \XeTeXprotrudechars, \rpcode, etc. The only documentation of these is a brief e-mail from JK dated Mon May 3 01:12:46 CEST 2010 :

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, \XeTeXprotrudechars, \rpcode, etc.

2014-04-15 Thread Philip Taylor
Fine, many thanks Jonathan; will do. ** Phil. Jonathan Kew wrote: IIRC, hyperlinks are handled entirely at the pdf output driver level; there are no xetex primitives involved. It's just a question of inserting appropriate \special{pdf: ...} commands. So try looking for dvipdfmx

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, \XeTeXprotrudechars, \rpcode, etc.

2014-04-15 Thread Akira Kakuto
Dear Philip, I found Corresponding ones in pdfTeX in the pdfTeX manual: \pdfprotrudechars (integer) Yet another way of optimizing paragraph breaking is to let certain characters move into the margin (‘character protrusion’). When \pdfprotrudechars=1, the glyphs qualified as such will make this

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX, \XeTeXprotrudechars, \rpcode, etc.

2014-04-15 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 15/4/14 11:05, Philip Taylor wrote: ... and are you also aware of any documentation discussing how hyperlinks can be embedded using XeTeX, another apparently undocumented feature that is successfully exploited by hyperref, eplain, etc., yet for which no primitive-level documentation seems to

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks

2014-04-15 Thread Ross Moore
Hi Phil, Have you ever tried \input miniltx.tex This then allows a subset of LaTeX structural commands and internals to be used without the documentclass stuff — which is what I think you detest most. Now many LaTeX packages can be loaded and used, without problems, in what are otherwise