Re: [XeTeX] Hyphenation in Transliterated Sanskrit

2011-10-02 Thread Cyril Niklaus
On 2 oct. 2011, at 22:40, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > Dominik -- > >> Several commentaries on the Bhagavadgītā have also >> been typed into the computer, including those of >> Śaṅkara, Yāmuna, Rāmānuja and Jñānadeva. > > What is the significance (if any) of the extra-high "ṅ" > in

Re: [XeTeX] Customizing footnote markers

2011-06-05 Thread Cyril Niklaus
Would something like this make you happy? That's what I've been using for years. Put it in your preamble. And of course, change the parindent size to somheting you like. \makeatletter \renewcommand\@makefntext[1]{% \vspace{2pt}% \setlength\parindent{-1.8em}% \setlength\leftskip{1.8em}%

Re: [XeTeX] Character Variants

2011-03-27 Thread Cyril Niklaus
On 27 mars 2011, at 20:40, msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: > On Sun, 27 Mar 2011, David Perry wrote: >> character. You can enter characters by number in XeTeX with \char"; so >> try >> >> \char"8FBB\char"E0100 > > If it's just a question of getting in the characters, which the font will >

[XeTeX] thanks for XeTeX

2011-03-22 Thread Cyril Niklaus
and fontspec! Just reading Bruno Voisin's posts on the OS X TeX mailing list made me remember all the hoops and problems one had to jump through to get fonts working in LaTeX… So thank you Jonathan and all the rest of you who are working hard on making our lives easier! Cyril Ni

Re: [XeTeX] microtype and SVN checkout problem

2010-11-24 Thread Cyril Niklaus
On 24 nov. 2010, at 18:23, Ulrike Fischer wrote: >> > > Are you sure you need a new binary? miktex 2.9. certainly already > has it (0.9997.4) and as far as I know texlive 2010 too. > > Perhaps you should at first try simply to update the microtype > package to the beta version: > http://xetex.

[XeTeX] microtype and SVN checkout problem

2010-11-23 Thread Cyril Niklaus
On 23 nov. 2010, at 07:01, Karl Berry wrote: > > I did not actually try it, but Thanh told me that character protrusion > is in fact implemented in the XeTeX that is in TL 2010. He and Jonathan > worked on getting it merged. Good news! So I tried it by adding \usepackage[verbose]{microtype} to

Re: [XeTeX] Beginner questions

2010-10-23 Thread Cyril Niklaus
On 23 oct. 2010, at 18:52, André Bellaïche wrote: > > Le 23 oct. 2010 à 11:33, Cyril Niklaus a écrit : > >> On 23 oct. 2010, at 17:53, André Bellaïche wrote: >> >>> >>> 2. If the main roman font is Frutiger® 55 Roman (Linotype Original names), >>

Re: [XeTeX] Beginner questions

2010-10-23 Thread Cyril Niklaus
On 23 oct. 2010, at 17:53, André Bellaïche wrote: > I am new to XeTeX, and I could not find a text for beginners. > === > > Let me ask some questions: > > 1. Is it possible to replace unicode by applemac encoding? What are the > commands in

Re: [XeTeX] Strange hyphenation with polyglossia in French

2010-10-17 Thread Cyril Niklaus
> On 17 oct. 2010, at 17:09, Roland Kuhn wrote: > >> On Oct 16, 2010, at 15:21 , Cyril Niklaus wrote: > >>> On 16 oct. 2010, at 20:57, Jonathan Kew wrote: >>> >>> Would setting >>> >>> \lccode "2019 = "27 >>>

Re: [XeTeX] Strange hyphenation with polyglossia in French

2010-10-16 Thread Cyril Niklaus
On 16 oct. 2010, at 19:12, Paul Isambert wrote: > > That's absolutely normal, that's even the reason why we use TeX :) > TeX builds a paragraph as a whole; if you remove some words at the end of > your paragraph, it might change its entire shape. I sorta knew that at a certain point in time… but

[XeTeX] Strange hyphenation with polyglossia in French

2010-10-16 Thread Cyril Niklaus
Hello all, I'd never had (or noticed) that problem before, so I don't know if it's a new thing or something I do that does not comply. The problem is simple, hyphenation occurs between an apostrophe and the word it follows : l'information in my case becomes l'-information. I'm using the latest u

Re: [XeTeX] Problems finding/using fonts with both xdv2pdf and xdvipdfmx

2010-10-02 Thread Cyril Niklaus
On 2 oct. 2010, at 07:43, Nicholas Riley wrote: > Are other people with 10.6/MacTeX-2010 able to typeset bullets without > getting them substituted? If so, what font/configuration do you use? Works fine here, with both fonts. %!TEX TS-program = xelatex %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode \documentcla

Re: [XeTeX] textsuperscript and french issue

2010-08-18 Thread Cyril Niklaus
On 18 août 10, at 23:07, tegi...@bluewin.ch wrote: Hello, Can someone tell my why the \textsuperscript commands in the code below do not generate the expected result. The french "è" in "3ème" or "2ème" is set in standard size and not in superscript as it appears in the attached pdf file.

Re: [XeTeX] Em-dash

2010-05-02 Thread Cyril Niklaus
On 3 mai 10, at 10:26, David Purton wrote: Hi all, Can someone test if the the below example works with the 12pt article option? i.e., \documentclass[12pt]{article} I'm just left with blankspaces for em and en dashes with 12pt and the default fonts. \documentclass[12pt]{art