Re: [XeTeX] New feature planned for xetex

2016-02-19 Thread Akira Kakuto
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Re: [XeTeX] New feature planned for xetex

2016-02-19 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2016-02-19 4:25 GMT+01:00 Kamal Abdali : > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 7:38 PM, Zdenek Wagner > wrote: > >> I have compared both and personally I like Jonathan's version. Of course, >> I am not an expert. I do not have any collection of high quality Urdu >> documents. I have only seen Mirza Ghalib'

Re: [XeTeX] New feature planned for xetex

2016-02-19 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 18/2/16 23:39, Kamal Abdali wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 9:51 AM, Jonathan Kew mailto:jfkth...@gmail.com>> wrote: Here's an example in Urdu script. There are 3 pages, all containing the exact same text. Page 1 has \XeTeXinterwordspaceshaping = 0, so this is what existing x

Re: [XeTeX] New feature planned for xetex

2016-02-19 Thread Adam Twardoch (List)
I think this is a phenomenal step. I don't think it's a specialized feature — it actually opens up a completely different usage field for XeTeX. The past treatment (single-word shaping) was making XeTeX difficult to deal with for purposes eg. of automated font testing or typesetting documents th

Re: [XeTeX] New feature planned for xetex

2016-02-19 Thread Kamal Abdali
Hi Zdeněk, Kudos! You figured one out correctly, and got only close on the second one because I gave you the wrong clue! Sorry. The two word-separated parsings of the second text are: جمالو ہار گیا۔ جما لوہار گیا۔ meaning: " Jamaloo was defeated" and "The ironsmith Jumma has left". While w

Re: [XeTeX] Graphite vulnerability

2016-02-19 Thread Melroch
It is worth remembering that the described tampered web font scenario doesn't normally apply to XeTeX use scenarios. Den 19 feb 2016 06:26 skrev "maxwell" : > There is a vulnerability in the Graphite library: > > http://news.softpedia.com/news/vulnerability-in-font-processing-library-affects-linux

Re: [XeTeX] New feature planned for xetex

2016-02-19 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2016-02-19 16:26 GMT+01:00 Kamal Abdali : > Hi Zdeněk, > > Kudos! You figured one out correctly, and got only close on the second one > because I gave you the wrong clue! Sorry. The two word-separated parsings > of the second text are: > جمالو ہار گیا۔ > جما لوہار گیا۔ > Thank you, now it

Re: [XeTeX] New feature planned for xetex

2016-02-19 Thread Denis Bitouzé
Le 19/02/16 à 16h55, Zdenek Wagner a écrit : > I know another funny transliteration from Czech. Under socialism we > had Socialist Youth Union. Union is "svaz" in Czech and the member of > this union was usually called "svazák" (the first vowel is short, the > second vowel is long). And if you tr

Re: [XeTeX] New feature planned for xetex

2016-02-19 Thread Philip Taylor
Denis Bitouzé wrote: > Ha, ha, ha, so funny ! (I didn't understand anything ;) According to Mr Google, "سوزاک" translates to "gonorrhoea" (blennorragie) ... -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [XeTeX] New feature planned for xetex

2016-02-19 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2016-02-19 17:37 GMT+01:00 Philip Taylor : > > > Denis Bitouzé wrote: > > > Ha, ha, ha, so funny ! (I didn't understand anything ;) > > According to Mr Google, "سوزاک" translates to "gonorrhoea" > (blennorragie) ... > > Google is right. And if you buy Teach Yourself Urdu from Amazon, you find it t

Re: [XeTeX] New feature planned for xetex

2016-02-19 Thread Simon Cozens
On 19/02/2016 01:06, Jonathan Kew wrote: > So... that was an interesting and thought-provoking suggestion, but at > this point I think I'm inclined towards keeping the existing model. To > me, it makes sense to think of these as increasing levels of support, > rather than as independent features.

[XeTeX] Why XeTeX runs are non-deterministic?

2016-02-19 Thread Paulo Ney de Souza
If you take a simple latex file like: \documentclass{article}\usepackage{lipsum}\usepackage{amsgen}\begin{document}\lipsum[1-10]\end{document} and run latex, pdflatex or lualatex repated times (on the same file) you get the SAME dvi or pdf file up to an internal DATE and ID in the file -- and eve

Re: [XeTeX] Why XeTeX runs are non-deterministic?

2016-02-19 Thread Herbert Schulz
> On Feb 19, 2016, at 5:46 PM, Paulo Ney de Souza wrote: > > If you take a simple latex file like: > \documentclass{article} > \usepackage{lipsum} > \usepackage{amsgen} > \begin{document} > \lipsum[1-10] > \end{document} > and run latex, pdflatex or lualatex repated times (on the same file) you g

[XeTeX] Why XeTeX runs are non-deterministic?

2016-02-19 Thread Akira Kakuto
Why is it so? And what generates this difference? The question has been lingering on SX for a while http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/292675/why-does-xelatex-produce-different-files-from-the-same-deterministic-sources but with no reasonable answer! I wrote a possible answer on SX. Best, Ak