Re: [XeTeX] Is the colorshadow special yet supported?

2015-04-14 Thread Akira Kakuto
Dear Marcel, 1. Is \special{x:colorshadow…} still not supported in TeXLive? It is not implemented in xdvipdfmx: {"shadow", spc_handler_xtx_unsupported}, {"colorshadow", spc_handler_xtx_unsupported}, Best, Akira -- Subscriptions,

[XeTeX] Is the colorshadow special yet supported?

2015-04-14 Thread Marcel Korpel
Hi all, I want to create a text shadow effect in (plain) XeTeX and found \special{x:colorshadow…} I also found a document containing that special[1]: \special{x:colorshadow(2,-2),0.8,} When looking at the preview image, one can clearly see the TeX lion with a shadow[2]. However, when l

Re: [XeTeX] additional beginL endL nodes in math

2015-04-14 Thread David Carlisle
> have used the xetex variant, sorry, I meant to write have used the etex variant, -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] additional beginL endL nodes in math

2015-04-14 Thread David Carlisle
On 14 April 2015 at 21:14, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 05:47:29PM +0100, David Carlisle wrote: >> As noted in the release notes direction support now works in math >> which is a good thing but a side effect seems to be that beginL endL >> nodes are added to every math list > > Th

Re: [XeTeX] additional beginL endL nodes in math

2015-04-14 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 05:47:29PM +0100, David Carlisle wrote: > As noted in the release notes direction support now works in math > which is a good thing but a side effect seems to be that beginL endL > nodes are added to every math list This is part of the TeX-XeT code actually and not related

Re: [XeTeX] additional beginL endL nodes in math

2015-04-14 Thread David Carlisle
On 14 April 2015 at 17:47, David Carlisle wrote: > As noted in the release notes direction support now works in math > which is a good thing but a side effect seems to be that beginL endL > nodes are added to every math list > The change introduces an incompatibility between xetex and pdftex/lua

[XeTeX] additional beginL endL nodes in math

2015-04-14 Thread David Carlisle
As noted in the release notes direction support now works in math which is a good thing but a side effect seems to be that beginL endL nodes are added to every math list \tracingoutput1 \tracingonline1 $a$ \bye generates ..\hbox(4.30554+0.0)x469.75499, glue set 444.4691fil ...\hbox(0.0+0.0)x2

Re: [XeTeX] rendering of U+0903

2015-04-14 Thread Manfred Lotz
On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 16:07:19 +0200 Zdenek Wagner wrote: > 2015-04-14 15:31 GMT+02:00 Manfred Lotz > : > > > On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 13:50:47 +0100 > > Arthur Reutenauer > > wrote: > > > > > Have you tried using a non-breaking space (U+00A0) as the base > > > letter? > > > > > > > > > Great idea w

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX Digest, Vol 133, Issue 7

2015-04-14 Thread Sasi Kumar
?" > > > > ``planet'' > > \end{document} > > > > Thanks in advance for any solution. > > > > Regards, > > Sasi > > > > -- > > V. Sasi Kumar > > Free Software Foundation of India > > Please see: http:/

Re: [XeTeX] Quotes and dashes

2015-04-14 Thread ShreeDevi Kumar
You can see http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/237695/how-to-specify-font-for-superscripts-using-ucharclasses-with-xelatex which has implementation of using superscripts from a different font with tamil script. You could follow similar method for malayalam. ShreeDevi _

Re: [XeTeX] rendering of U+0903

2015-04-14 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2015-04-14 15:17 GMT+02:00 Arthur Reutenauer < arthur.reutena...@normalesup.org>: > > The problem is that AFAIK the Indic scripts are not yet implemented in > > luatex. > > Actually it is, at least for Devanagari. This is fairly recent (2-3 > years). > > I have just tried with luatex from TL 20

Re: [XeTeX] rendering of U+0903

2015-04-14 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2015-04-14 15:31 GMT+02:00 Manfred Lotz : > On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 13:50:47 +0100 > Arthur Reutenauer > wrote: > > > Have you tried using a non-breaking space (U+00A0) as the base > > letter? > > > > > Great idea which works perfectly for what I wanted to do, i.e. to create > an A2 poster of the S

Re: [XeTeX] rendering of U+0903

2015-04-14 Thread Manfred Lotz
On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 13:50:47 +0100 Arthur Reutenauer wrote: > Have you tried using a non-breaking space (U+00A0) as the base > letter? > Great idea which works perfectly for what I wanted to do, i.e. to create an A2 poster of the Sanskrit alphabet. http://comedy.dante.de/~manfred/sanskrit_a

Re: [XeTeX] Quotes and dashes

2015-04-14 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
Hi Sasi, > Although I had written about this problem earlier and got some responses Did you read them? >am > giving a minimal working example below. It gives a pdf that has rectangles > where I have placed quotes a

[XeTeX] Quotes and dashes

2015-04-14 Thread Sasi Kumar
Although I had written about this problem earlier and got some responses, I continue to be plagued by the absence of "curly" quotes and mdashes. I am giving a minimal working example below. It gives a pdf that has rectangles where I have placed quotes and dashes: \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{artic

Re: [XeTeX] rendering of U+0903

2015-04-14 Thread Manfred Lotz
On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 14:59:03 +0200 Zdenek Wagner wrote: > The problem is that AFAIK the Indic scripts are not yet implemented in > luatex. This could be. I usually use XeLaTeX for Sanskrit stuff, and in this case I wanted to take a look how this looks like when using lualatex. > The dotted rin

Re: [XeTeX] rendering of U+0903

2015-04-14 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2015-04-14 15:17 GMT+02:00 Arthur Reutenauer < arthur.reutena...@normalesup.org>: > > The problem is that AFAIK the Indic scripts are not yet implemented in > > luatex. > > Actually it is, at least for Devanagari. This is fairly recent (2-3 > years). > I did not know about it, I asked Hans Hag

Re: [XeTeX] Quotes and dashes

2015-04-14 Thread Zdenek Wagner
Your main font is Rachana, your default language is Malayalam. You do not use any language/script switching. Although you define Roman font, it will never be used. You have to use \setotherlanguage{english} and put the English text inside \textenglish{...}. In such a case these texts will be typese

Re: [XeTeX] rendering of U+0903

2015-04-14 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
> The problem is that AFAIK the Indic scripts are not yet implemented in > luatex. Actually it is, at least for Devanagari. This is fairly recent (2-3 years). > The dotted ring is not a part of the glyph. the Unicode shaper > (HarfBuzz in XeTeX) knows that visarga is a dependent vowel

Re: [XeTeX] rendering of U+0903

2015-04-14 Thread Zdenek Wagner
The problem is that AFAIK the Indic scripts are not yet implemented in luatex. The dotted ring is not a part of the glyph. the Unicode shaper (HarfBuzz in XeTeX) knows that visarga is a dependent vowel (matra) and since a consonant is missing, it takes the dotted ring from the font (it should exist

Re: [XeTeX] rendering of U+0903

2015-04-14 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
Have you tried using a non-breaking space (U+00A0) as the base letter? Arthur -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

[XeTeX] rendering of U+0903

2015-04-14 Thread Manfred Lotz
Hi there, When compiling the document using xelatex the visarga (ः) looks the same in the pdf document as in the source below. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{unicode} \usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont{Sanskrit 2003} \begin{document} ः \end{document} When compiling the document using lu