Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX or LaTeXiT strange behavior

2014-03-06 Thread Axel Kielhorn
{equation} \cos\pi = -1 \end{equation} \end{document} That led me to use xelatex and after playing for a while and asking for advice to various people, I put together the preamble that seems clearly unorthodox to TeX specialists like you ou Axel Kielhorn. It is clear that I will never be able

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX or LaTeXiT strange behavior

2014-03-01 Thread Axel Kielhorn
Am 28.02.2014 um 11:36 schrieb Yves Gaudemer: Dear all, I use LaTeXiT to write equations for my Keynote presentations (I teach geology). I have exactly the same TeX distributions at home (a mid 2012 MacBook Pro running 10.9.2) and at the university (a late 2010 iMac running 10.9.2

Re: [XeTeX] generating a booklet pdf a4 to a5 in XeLaTeX

2013-12-02 Thread Axel Kielhorn
Am 02.12.2013 um 08:22 schrieb NMPOST7: On 01/12/2013 21:45, NMPOST7 wrote: On 01/12/2013 21:33, Peter Dyballa wrote: Then you just need to read the documentation! It has hundreds of options you can tweak. They are sorted in paragraphs in the documentation. And KOMASCRIPT has an eye on

Re: [XeTeX] generating a booklet pdf a4 to a5 in XeLaTeX

2013-12-02 Thread Axel Kielhorn
Am 03.12.2013 um 01:05 schrieb NMPOST7: My copy of KOMA-Script is old (2005) and I cannot find the command \setkomafont{disposition} in it The old name for disposition was sectioning, this still works, according to the manual. Axel --

Re: [XeTeX] generating a booklet pdf a4 to a5 in XeLaTeX

2013-12-02 Thread Axel Kielhorn
Am 02.12.2013 um 23:23 schrieb NMPOST7: The only remaining problem : the margin. The pages on the right (and the cover) run off the margins. No, they don't. Your paper runs out. The A5 paper is 420 x 595 points. The resulting A4 paper should be twice that size: 595 x 840 points (the exact

Re: [XeTeX] Beamer and xelatex (or rather fontspec)

2012-06-10 Thread Axel Kielhorn
Am 10.06.2012 um 07:55 schrieb Nathan Sidoli: It seems like fontspec and beamer don't play well together. I have included a minimal example, below. Any ideas would be welcome. \documentclass{beamer} %% %% Comment out the next three lines to see changes %% \usepackage{fontspec}

Re: [XeTeX] Font Warning Font shape Vollkorn it undefined

2010-10-25 Thread Axel Kielhorn
Am 25.10.2010 um 13:06 schrieb Pander: Hi all, I'm trying to use Vollkorn in regular bold, italic and bold italic. However, italic and bold italic are not recognised by XeLaTeX. I'm using the following XeLaTeX test document: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{xltxtra}

[XeTeX] zhspacing interferes with latin apostrophe (2019)

2010-10-20 Thread Axel Kielhorn
Hello! I've been contacted with a problem report involving zhspacing and a Unicode Apostrophe: The Apostrophe is replaced by a Chinese character, which looks horrible in context. When I use a ' and Mapping=tex-text the correct character is printed. The document enclosed does not include

Re: [XeTeX] arabxetex vs. xepersian

2010-10-04 Thread Axel Kielhorn
Am 03.10.2010 um 22:41 schrieb Gareth Hughes: ArabXeTeX does a similar job to Polyglossia when it comes to font set-up and commands for language change. However, ArabXeTeX specialises in using input in Latin transliteration to render Arabic. It is designed to work with the various languages

[XeTeX] arabxetex vs. xepersian

2010-10-03 Thread Axel Kielhorn
Reading the documentation of the XeTeX packages I want to mention in lshort, I came across two packages for Farsi: arabxtex supports: arab (Arabic) farsi (persian) urdu sindhi pashto ottoman (turk) kurdish kashmiri malay (jawi) uighur xepersian supports only Farsi, but adds command names in

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-01 Thread Axel Kielhorn
Am 01.10.2010 um 00:49 schrieb Elliott Roper: On 30 Sep 2010, at 22:52, Keith J. Schultz wrote: As far a documentation is concerned look at the LaTeX Companion for packages. ..and that's where I get a bit taken aback. The book arrives last Saturday. I head for the Index for the bits I

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-30 Thread Axel Kielhorn
Am 30.09.2010 um 02:39 schrieb Andy Lin: lshort needs to be updated, not just because it's missing sections on Unicode and XeTeX. It's also working under the assumption that people will *need* to use the command line in order to process a document. This should be a concern to anyone who's

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-27 Thread Axel Kielhorn
Am 26.09.2010 um 20:11 schrieb Khaled Hosny: On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 10:26:47PM +0200, Marco wrote: From the text: Some editors support digraphs, two letters that are combined into on character. (In \wi{Vim} \texttt{ctrl-k o:} will be transformed into an \o, \texttt{ctrl-k JA} will

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-27 Thread Axel Kielhorn
Am 26.09.2010 um 19:36 schrieb Yves Codet: Hello. Le 26 sept. 2010 à 15:56, Axel Kielhorn a écrit : A small detail about your XEsample.tex. \begin{russian} могу я Вам чем-л. помочь?% I hope this isn't a terrible curse or an insult, never trust a dictionary \end{russian} It's

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-27 Thread Axel Kielhorn
Am 26.09.2010 um 19:11 schrieb Michiel Kamermans: On 9/26/2010 6:56 AM, Axel Kielhorn wrote: I have to disagree, Vim and emacs (or should that be Emacs?) are available on Windows as well. (Maybe not used that often.) While they're available for windows, windows users don't use them

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-27 Thread Axel Kielhorn
Am 26.09.2010 um 19:03 schrieb Michiel Kamermans: This touches on a recent thread on a primer for XeLaTeX, which ended in http://wiki.xelatex.org/ (which I did not forget about to everyone who might suspect I have, conferences and moving house are currently robbing me of all my spare

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-26 Thread Axel Kielhorn
Am 26.09.2010 um 02:43 schrieb Vafa Khalighi: Exuse us but I think this is too short and does not help anyone. The mailinglist stripped your attachment about the use of RTL languages. Since I'm a LGC[1] guy, I won't be able to write anything about RTL or CJK, except for the fact that it is

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-26 Thread Axel Kielhorn
Am 26.09.2010 um 01:17 schrieb Peter Dyballa: Instead of the not included DejaVu font family you might like to mention GNU Free fonts or Linux Libertine/Biolinum O, which are included in TeX Live. You have a point here, I'll switch to Linux Libertine. Some operating systems or application

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-26 Thread Axel Kielhorn
Am 26.09.2010 um 06:13 schrieb David Perry: lshort is meant to be, well, short. Having even this much will give those unacquainted with xe(la)tex some idea of what it's all about, and the reference to the wiki will (I hope) be a good source of additional information. This is meant as

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation initiative

2010-09-08 Thread Axel Kielhorn
Am 08.09.2010 um 14:44 schrieb Khaled Hosny: I can't say any better, the lack of free, authoritative documentation has bugged me since the first day I used TeX, I couldn't even buy the books by then since no local book store have such titles (online book stores were not an option). I