Hello
Hmm. Would it work if in the \overstrike argument you put in a ghost
consonant by enclosing it in \phantom{} - so it is present as far as TeX is
concerned but not actually output visibly?
But alas, I have no experience of handling these exotic fonts.
Best
John *🇪🇺 * Слава Україні!
* 🇺🇦*
Hello
The more language-specific elegant solution has I think been provided by
Zdenek Wagner, but if it's ever desired to superimpose glyphs that don't
naturally coalesce, I use the following (in plain XeTeX but it should work
in LaTeX too):
\def\overstrike#1#2{\leavevmode
\setbox0=\hbox{#1}\
In case it helps, whenever I've had even the hint of an issue accessing a
font from the system I invoke it from where I have stored the file of the
font itself, e.g.:
\font\ormplanteight="[D:/BACKUPS/FONTBKUP/ORMULUM/OrmPlant.ttf]" at 8pt
(I'm not a LaTeX user but as far as I know plain (Xe)TeX c
Ahem, that would be vulgare pecus...
On Sat, 20 Aug 2022, 17:55 Eric Streit, wrote:
> Hi,
>
> an interesting conference about the 'French orthographe" and how it was
> defined (and, no, this was not logical at all).
>
> The conference is in French, but with subtitles, I hope you can understand.
Hello Philip
I've sometimes encountered inexplicable behaviour like this, and if there's
the slightest hint of a problem with plain XeTeX locating and loading a
font in a particular way, I load it directly from the font file itself,
e.g.:
\font\ffthornreight="[D:/BACKUPS/FONTBKUP/EHRHARDT/FFTHORN
In case it's of any relevance, I've always boxed images, e.g.
\setbox1=\hbox{\XeTeXpdffile "image.pdf"}
That's mainly so that I can use \wd1 as the width of any caption beneath
the image (which is invoked by "\box1", of course). I *think* from memory
that the XeTeX manual says that an image is
Hello Philip
I don't know if the following would be classed as simple, but it puts a
grey background to the second line of the table, and if required frequently
the code could be wrapped up in a control sequence:
\input pstricks
\tabskip 0pt
\halign to \hsize{%
#\hfil \tabskip 0pt plus 1em&
#
> \ProvidesPackage{ifpdf}[2019/10/25 v3.4 ifpdf legacy package. Use
> iftex instead.]
> >
> > So will not have made the text that you show.
> >
> > Some other macro that you have loaded has apparently defined
> \ProvidesPackage so that instead of sending the f
cro that you have loaded has apparently defined
> \ProvidesPackage so that instead of sending the final argument to the log
> it typesets it, but impossible to say what that is from the information
> posted.
>
> David
>
>
> On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 at 18:31, Julian Bradfield
> wrote
Hello
On acquiring a new PC I decided to install the latest TeXLive (previously I
was on the 2013 version). I use plain XeTeX. To my surprise, the first
page now has at the top the text:
ifpdf [2016/04/04 v3.0 Provides the ifpdf switch]
See the attached one-page PDF.
Below I give some lines f
Hello
I only use plain XeTeX, where the syntax (for 10-point italic type and
old-style numerals) would be:
\font \Swash = "MinionPro-It:+onum:mapping=tex-text:style=swash" at 10pt
I'm not sure if that will help: the command itself should make sense to
LaTeX, I think, but it may not fit in with t
Hello
If you wanted TeX to be able to end a line with /, you could add to the
definition thus:
\def\slash{{\fontspec{Sanskrit 2003}/\hskip 1sp}}
And if this is coming up frequently, you could select a character that you
never use and make it active. For example, supposing you never use the £
si
Hello
You might be able to create an artificial thin version of the font by using
a negative value in the embolden option when setting up the font. I get
artificial bold small caps (on the rare occasion I need them) in Monotype
Imprint with:
\font\uimpbfive =
"ImprintMTPro-Regular:+lnum:+smcp:em
he is achieving them.
Best
John
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 at 15:58, Arthur Reutenauer <
arthur.reutena...@normalesup.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 02:47:26PM +, John Was wrote:
> > Ah, another quirk of LaTeX.
>
> Of TeX. As you can see in your own example:
>
>
; st 5. 12. 2018 v 15:12 odesílatel John Was napsal:
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > I didn't realize that textit took an argument, but my solution will work
> > (I've used the \ifitalic trick for years for different purposes!), at
> least
> > in plain Xe
es the group so that the categories return to 11. There
is no need to use \if.
Zdeněk Wagner
http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
st 5. 12. 2018 v 12:39 odesílatel John Was napsal:
Hello
I work in plain XeTeX, but I hope the following will work (and make sense)
Hello
I work in plain XeTeX, but I hope the following will work (and make sense)
in XeLaTeX too.
You could redefine \textit, but to keep things simple, set up a new command,
say \Textit, and change all occurrences of \textit to \Textit in your
document (or a copy thereof!).
Thus:
\def\Textit{{
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2017 12:59 PM
To: xetex@tug.org
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Using tikz with plain XeTeX
On 13/05/2017 12:49, Philip Taylor wrote:
John Was wrote:
Even if PS-Tricks and Tikz do clash, it doesn't seem to be PS-Tricks
specifically that's causing this issue (I've tri
ill off my running
headlines (as well as adjusting the offset positions) while it was at it!
John
-Original Message-
From: Philip Taylor
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2017 12:49 PM
To: XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion.
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Using tikz with plain XeTeX
John Was wrote:
Hello
Even if PS-Tricks and Tikz do clash, it doesn't seem to be PS-Tricks
specifically that's causing this issue (I've tried commenting it out) -
suspicion currently falls on Edmac, which I use for cropmarks and sometimes
for other purposes (e.g. automatic line numbering of texts when require
A simple one-page file is fine:
\input tikz
\tikzpicture
\path[draw=red] (0,0) -- (1,1) -- (2,1) circle (10pt);
\endtikzpicture
\bye
The problem is evidently with something in the preamble to the articles
(it's a periodical that comes out twice a year). Rather a gigantic run of
co
Dear All
Apologies if this is the wrong list (but I’ve always found participants here
very helpful!).
I have been sent some tikz code for diagrams to be included in a forthcoming
article. The author uses a version of LaTeX but tikz should work OK in plain
(Xe)TeX, I think – though I haven’t t
Hello
I might be misunderstanding, but would \lefthyphenmin = 2 and
\righthyphenmin = 3 not solve this? I have \righthyphenmin set to 3 for all
the language hyphenation patterns that I need to invoke, but there's no need
for the left and right settings to be identical.
But as I say, I might
Hello
I think you'll find that these characters are simply not in the fonts. But
composed characters that have a Unicode value can sometimes be achieved
manually even if they aren't present in the fonts you want to use, and that
can be done behind the scenes (the following plain (Xe)TeX code
Hello
Will this XeTeX 'primitive' not do what you want?
\XeTeXdashbreakstate 0%disallows linebreaks after dashes
If you want the rule to be applied only to parts of the document, give
\begingroup before the first paragraph to which it applies, and \endgroup
after the last paragraph to which i
Hello
There seems to be a port of Autohotkey that may allow you to tweak your
keyboard to achieve this. See e.g.
http://blog.10minutesoftech.com/app-of-the-week/2012-10-03-autohotkey/
Best
John
-Original Message-
From: NMPOST7
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 5:04 PM
To: XeTeX (U
d TeX) discussion.
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Large brace in multiline table cell
Thanks! A slight complication though: the other two braces which
I didn't include in my illustration enclose an even number of
lines/cells, six and two respectively.
/bpj
2013-10-12 15:20, John Was skrev:
Hello
I use plain
Hello
I use plain XeTeX, and occasionally have to do something like this. The
coding should (I think) still be comprehensible to LaTeX, so you could try
including something like this at the end of the first cell of line 3:
\rlap{\kern 3pt
$\smash{\left .\vbox to 30pt{}\right\}}$}
ed (or at least, I'm not going to try and re-create the
situation!).
Best wishes
John
- Original Message -
From: "Ulrike Fischer"
To:
Sent: 12 June 2013 08:21
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX
Am Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:02:06 +0100 schrieb John Was:
I'm afraid
up any personal material you
may have put into the texmf tree. Otherwise, maybe you can find a "registry
cleaning tool", maybe on SourceForge or similar?
Cheers,
Wilfred
--------
From: John Was
To:
rom: "Peter Dyballa"
To: "XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion."
Sent: 11 June 2013 16:02
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX
Am 11.06.2013 um 16:26 schrieb John Was:
I will investigate, but may have to reinstall (or install an updated
version, which I guess I ought to as
t;
Sent: 11 June 2013 16:02
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX
Am 11.06.2013 um 16:26 schrieb John Was:
I will investigate, but may have to reinstall (or install an updated
version, which I guess I ought to as 2009 seems a long way off now).
Instead of trying to install a newer xdvipdfmx (then t
- Original Message -
From: "Zdenek Wagner"
To: "XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion."
Sent: 11 June 2013 15:30
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX
2013/6/11 John Was :
Hello
Thanks for the advice - I will investigate, but may have to reinstall (or
install an updated vers
Hello
Thanks for the advice - I will investigate, but may have to reinstall (or
install an updated version, which I guess I ought to as 2009 seems a long
way off now). TL Manager isn't working either so it looks as if something
rather nasty has happened!
Best wishes
John
- Original M
Hello
I use plain XeTeX on Windows XP Pro, this build (from the log):
This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (Web2C 2009) (format=xetex
2010.5.18)
It was working OK last night, but today it fails after a few pages ( which
appear to be processing normally), with this on the screen (at a
Hello
I use plain XeTeX also, but not that font. However, looking at the
Libertine website, I would suggest you add
:+hlig
to the font call (so e.g. "Linux Libertine O:+hlig:mapping=tex-text")
If you right-click the font file itself and select 'Properties', you should
get a list of OpenT
Hello
I will keep an eye on this thread since paired texts and translations pretty
well test TeX to the limit, and I have two of these beasts on my desk at the
moment. I have typeset some extensive editions of Latin prose texts with
facing translation using plain (Xe)TeX and the edmac package
Hello
If you are using plain XeTeX, a simple example using \halign (the table
function) to centre the poems visually would be:
\TeXXeTstate=1 % this turns bidirectional functionality on
\font\arabic = "Scheherazade:script=arab" at 13pt
\def\intextarab#1{{\arabic {\beginR #1\endR}}}
\halign
i.sty for plain XeTeX
John,
Your suggestion worked very well. Arabic words and letters now read from
right to left. However, the letters all appear as separate letters rather
than connected as they should be. Is there any way to correct that?
Nicholas
On Fri, 21 Dec 2012, John Was wrote:
I'm not an Arabist but have occasionally had to typeset articles in plain
XeTex using Arabic, and all I have in my file header is:
\TeXXeTstate=1 % this turns e-TeX's bidi functionality on
\def\intextarab#1{{\arabic {\beginR #1\endR}}}
I define \arabic as a call to my Arabic font (the definitio
Dear Sian
I use only plain XeTeX (not XeLaTeX), and the files it reads are standard
UTF files created in the Babelpad text editor (or rather, since most files I
receive are in Word, they are saved to .txt form and then called up and
saved as .TEX files in Babel - Word has a habit of putting bi
se them.
John
- Original Message -
From: "Philip TAYLOR"
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms"
Sent: 20 November 2012 16:19
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] horizontal alignment
John Was wrote:
Hello
I'm not a LaTeX user but I think the standard plain TeX
Hello
I'm not a LaTeX user but I think the standard plain TeX commands mostly work
in that environment. Could you not try giving:
\begingroup
\interlinepenalty1
STUFF YOU WANT TO KEEP ON SAME PAGE
\endgroup
?
TeX should then never split the material within the group.
John
- O
She gets up early because her husband Tithonus lives in a jar and isn't much
fun any more... (Be careful what you ask the gods for.)
J.
- Original Message -
From: "Peter Dyballa"
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms"
Sent: 15 August 2012 19:30
Subject: Re: [XeTeX
Hello.
I would certainly try to contribute financially (though now isn't the best
time!) for someone (or a team) to develop a 'custom kerning' feature that
would allow XeTeX users to add to and modify the kerning pairs of a font
without actually intervening in the font, with a rubric like this
I think it's arrogant in the strict sense that you arrogate to yourself the
right to tell others what tasks they should or should not be engaging in,
and you characterize the activity of those persisting in the tasks you would
like to prohibit as 'stupid' (as in your most recent contribution).
hbour...
I see I've fallen into a nostalgic reverie...
John
- Original Message -
From: "Zdenek Wagner"
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms"
Sent: 04 May 2012 16:11
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Babel
2012/5/4 John Was :
I'm not going to get i
I'm not going to get involved in the polemics of this thread (which, as has
been well pointed out, has tended towards the puerile), but I am a user of
(so-called plain) XeTeX, so far without any strong incentive to move over to a
LaTeX flavour of the program, and I do appreciate having the hyphe
Hello
I use plain XeTeX, and thanks to scholars of ancient philosophy who like to
have huge footnotes (sometimes including tabular matter or extensive
workings in formal logic) I do sometimes have to specify that certain groups
of lines cannot split between pages. Within tabular I just have
Hi
I've only glanced at this thread and may not have quite got the gist, but
some time ago I (when moving to XeTeX from an old plain EmTeX installation)
I managed, with some effort, to convert a collection of early modern Greek
plays from a rebarbative transliteration system into Unicode polyt
Many thanks for that - it seems that I shall be labouring under an embarras
de richesses.
John
- Original Message -
From: "John McChesney-Young"
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms"
Sent: 17 September 2011 15:51
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Astrological symbols
On Sat
sed TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms"
Sent: 17 September 2011 13:09
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Astrological symbols
John Was wrote:
Thanks for the list - I've got Arial of course ... but it's so ugly!
Think "Bauhaus", think "minimalist" : if you're enough
eX for Mac OS X and other platforms"
Sent: 17 September 2011 09:54
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Astrological symbols
Am 16.09.2011 um 22:09 schrieb John Was:
Not a strictly XeTeX issue, but can anyone recommend a font (preferably
Unicode compliant but not absolutely essential) that contains the
claim that they are
beautifully designed or anything, but they might do.
David
On 9/16/2011 4:09 PM, John Was wrote:
Dear XeTeX users
Not a strictly XeTeX issue, but can anyone recommend a font (preferably
Unicode compliant but not absolutely essential) that contains the
astrological symbols (planets
Dear XeTeX users
Not a strictly XeTeX issue, but can anyone recommend a font (preferably Unicode
compliant but not absolutely essential) that contains the astrological symbols
(planets, zodiacal signs etc.: mainly Unicode range 263D and following) and
will look half-decent in book work, combin
Hello
It's not an intellectually satisfying solution, but could you not yourself
be the first (dummy) customer each day, offering up a file for PDF
conversion so that the initial slow processing happens only to you? The
real clients who come after that will then (if I understand your problem
Bombay/Mumbai is a bit of a puzzle (to me, at least). As far as I know,
it's a Portuguese name originally ('good bay'), so what I take to be the
local pronunciation 'Mumbai' seems to be an approximation/corruption of that
rather than a reversion to an authentic original. My friend there (born
I would say the situation is always fluid in the nomenclature employed for
foreign names, languages, and places - in English, at any rate. I'm sure the
inhabitants of Livorno would be a little upset if English-speakers still
referred to it as Leghorn (likewise Braunschweig/Brunswick, and innume
I can't take time to absorb that, but it looks as if it wants to force the
indentation at the start of a footnote to be 1.5em, which ought to be OK
(rather more than I would have, but no matter just now).
Just before the first line of your text (after you've loaded all your
packages and so on)
That huge overfull \hbox is surely because you have specified 10 inches as
the indentation. Try 10pt instead of 10in (leaving everything else as
given), and see what happens.
John
- Original Message -
From: "Alessandro Ceschini"
To: "Customizing footnote markers"
Sent: 05 June 201
I'm sure '10in' is a mistake - rather 10pt?
And try replacing
\hbox to \parindentFFN {}
with
\hbox to \parindentFFN{\hfill}
(no space after FFN).
I would also replace
\@thefnmark.~#1
with
\@thefnmark.\kern 0.5em #1
Otherwise the ~ will give a variable space after each footnote-cue, wher
I'd be curious to know what kind of a book could support a ten-inch indentation
before the footnote-cue...
John
- Original Message -
From: Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
To: Customizing footnote markers
Cc: Alessandro Ceschini
Sent: 05 June 2011 16:21
Subject: Re: [XeTeX
Hi
I think PSTricks (which is automatically available in plain XeTeX) should
allow this. See the PSTricks manual, and some sample code at:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=&q=pstricks+tp-test.ps&sourceid=navclient-ff&rlz=1B3GGLL_en-GBGB380GB380&ie=UTF-8
Hope this helps.
John
- Origin
Dear XeTeX users
Is there some documentation to explain the correct usage of \XeTeXpdffile
(preferably with worked examples)? I typeset a periodical using plain XeTeX
and there are always a few contributors who have forgotten to fill in the
copyright form, which is a 2-page PDF (but that could
Hello
I don't know if it will be of much help, but when I want to bring in a
character from another font (such as the upper half-brackets U2E22 and U2E23
you're having trouble with), I make the character active so that whenever
TeX encounters it, it fetches it from another font which does have
Hello
I think you want something analogous to the following (taken from some very
old work in EmTeX):
\textfont0=\wwimrten
\scriptfont0=\wwimrseven
\scriptscriptfont0=\wwimrfive
\textfont1=\tximiten
\scriptfont1=\tximiseven
\scriptscriptfont1=\tximifive
\textfont4=\tximiten
\scriptfont4=\tximi
Hello
I haven't followed this closely, but it might be worth having a look at how you
position text randomly on the page (unless you have already, in which case
apologies). In pre-XeTeX days I used PSTricks to produce the cropmarks and
date/time stamp on each page (essentially using \rput to p
a value of 2, 3, etc.
depending on the number of pieces that make them up.) FontForge should
provide a way to categorize the characters correctly; if you don't, it
probably assumes 'simple' and things won't work right.
David
- Original Message -
From: "John Wa
Dear Alexy
Many thanks - it may be easiest for me to import the feature at this stage
(and then I can have a good look at what has been done so that I can figure
what I've been doing wrong).
Best wishes
John
- Original Message -
From: "Alexey Kryukov"
To: "Unicode-based TeX for
e any Unicode values, though. But using them will not cause a
feature to fail if it is otherwise set up correctly.
David
On 2/23/2011 3:19 AM, John Was wrote:
Thanks to everyone for the advice.
I don't use XeLaTeX so don't employ commands such as
\defaultfontfeatures - this isn'
1 ; fi -> fi ligature
U+0066 U+006C <> U+FB02 ; fl -> fl ligature
;U+0066 U+0066 U+0069 <> U+FB03 ; ffi -> ffi ligature
;U+0066 U+0066 U+006C <> U+FB04 ; ffl -> ffl ligature
Although you _could_ do this, I wouldn't advise it. Much better to learn
how to set up
Hello
Forgive the puzzlement of a new recruit to FontForge (which is installed via
Cygwin on a Windows XP machine). And apologies if this isn't the right forum -
though frequent discussion of font-related issues here gives me hope.
I edited a font which had just the fi and fl ligatures (in the
From: "Jonathan Kew"
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms"
Sent: 16 February 2011 07:56
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Multiple \marks
On 16 Feb 2011, at 07:42, John Was wrote:
Hello
I've used multiple \marks in a few jobs where there are several varying
ele
Hello
I've used multiple \marks in a few jobs where there are several varying
elements that need to go into the running headlines (\marks 1, \marks 2, etc.,
instead of plain TeX's single \mark). For some reason I got it into my head
that this was part of Eplain, but I've just discovered (from
Hello
I can't add anything on the technicalities involved in tweaking the kerning
of fonts, but in a couple of previous threads I've asked if it might be
possible to add a user-generated kern option (which would adjust and
supplement rather than completely overwrite the kerning information in
Sorry if I'm missing something, but can't you simply put
\XeTeXdashbreakstate 1
at the start of your document? That tells XeTeX that line-breaks are
permitted after dashes.
John
- Original Message -
From: "Arthur Reutenauer"
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platform
Hello
st and ct will be more awkward but see below. For the regular ones,
including the pseudo-ligatures for the en and em dashes, just specify TeX
mapping when you invoke the font, e.g.
\font\ubsrten =
"BaskervilleMTPro-Regular:+onum:mapping=tex-text:letterspace=1.6" at 10pt
That will gi
pecifying papersize with XeTeX
Am 10.11.2010 um 13:10 schrieb John Was:
--papersize=a5
I wouldn't use this command line option. I'd use a
\special{papersize=...} which also records these dimensions in the XDV
output file, helping xdvipdfmx to choose the proper paper format.
--
Does anyone know which papersizes are supported by the (plain) XeTeX
--papersize option? (I'm on a Windows XP platform and usually typeset from the
command prompt.) I unexpectedly had to resize something to A5 the other day
(for a manufacturing printer who didn't want to handle an A4 PDF with
"
Sent: 10 November 2010 14:04
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Specifying papersize with XeTeX
On Nov 10, 2010, at 7:10 AM, John Was wrote:
it would be useful to know what options are available - and also whether
one can customize the width and height, just in case I encounter a
similar issue wi
Well RTBM is always available as a last resort.
J.
- Original Message -
From: "Pierre Morel"
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms"
Sent: 01 November 2010 20:46
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Several apostrophe-related problems (kerning, mapping)
It doesn't work this way...
r' on input line 308.
Now that everything else works, how to prevent this hyperref problem ?
Thanks
Pierre
Le 31 oct. 2010 à 23:19, John Was a écrit :
Hello Pierre
I'm sorry to say that I can't help with the marginal kerning - I've never
investigated
U+2019 apostrophes showed that the
margin-kerning bug is not due to the tex-text mapping : even when the
apostrophes are U+2019 in the source file, they are replaced by U+0027
apostrophes in the PDF !! And this only for the font for which margin
kerning is activated.
Any ideas on this last p
Hello
I can't help with the marginal kering (which I don't use), but here is what
I do in a font that also had overtight kerning associated with apostrophes:
\catcode"2019=\active
\def’{\leavevmode \kern 1sp \hbox{'}}
\catcode"201D=\active
\def”{\leavevmode \kern 1sp \hbox{''}}
Note that the
Depending on what input system s/he was using, s/he may be able to revert to
a timed back-up. Though I don't much like Microsoft Word, I have to make
some use of it since files for a couple of periodicals that I typeset tend
to arrive in that format. It certainly has that feature (and you can
ph at lines 9--9
[] \OT1/cmr/m/n/10 bi-og-ra-phy bi-o-graph-i-cal
The Oxford Colour Spelling Dictionary is not following the hyphenation points
of the words on the 1996 tape we were sent.
Dominik
On 24 October 2010 09:45, John Was wrote:
I'm afraid the hyphenation rot had
Is there some mistake? The Oxford Guide to Style does have pretty extensive
coverage of word division in each of its language sections (which are
numerous): Greek word division is section 11.25.4 on page 299, for example.
(Some fairly awful typos throughout that work, including a couple on tha
he'd managed to spot the error. The printer replied that, after
setting pages and pages in a script he could not read, he had learnt
that one of them never follows one of them! Ah... attention to detail;
they don't make them like that anymore!
Gareth.
John Was wrote:
Original Message -
From: Dominik Wujastyk
To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms
Sent: 23 October 2010 17:51
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] (Xe)LaTeX output in a non-(Xe)LaTeX scholarly community
On 23 October 2010 16:20, John Was wrote:
[...]
Getting back to TeX-r
s one of them! Ah... attention to detail;
they don't make them like that anymore!
Gareth.
John Was wrote:
Well I'm still in the Press once a week at least (for choir practice!)
so I shall make sure these comments reach the right ears. They
correspond, unfortunately to my own impr
itors to submit camera-ready-copy, and recommending that they
use Critical Edition Typesetter (<http://www.karas.ch/cet/>). I have
the impression they only really care about the appearance of the CRC,
though, and wouldn't really care if authors prefer other typesetting
systems.
Jud Herrm
OUP will normally be amenable if saving money is in prospect! I think the
barrier here has always been the copy-editing process (now more vulnerable
since house style is not seen as so important and indeed there is no longer
any copy-editing department at OUP). A critical edition will normally
to Word, though a perfect replica of the format of the PDF is surely rather
unlikely.
John
- Original Message -
From: "Gareth Hughes"
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms"
Sent: 22 October 2010 17:33
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] (Xe)LaTeX output i
Hello
If it's of any interest, I have been using TeX for many years now to produce
OUP humanities publications (Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, recent
fascicules of the Medieval Latin Dictionary from British Sources [British
Academy but published by OUP], and dozens of monographs in the
Just as a postscript to this thread, I've several times asked for (and still
hope to see) a custom kerning facility in XeTeX (this is already available
in LuaTeX). The idea would be that when you call up a font you can say
':kerning=mykern.krn' just as you can say ':mapping=tex-text'. The fil
I'm a plain TeX user so not directly involved, but any package that makes
vulgar fractions simple (especially if the results are consistently good)
seems worth retaining on principle. Something like 'three twelve hundred
and twenty-fourths' can be a real pain to code manually depending on the
Hello
I haven't been following the proposals in detail but it seems to me that the
suggestions are overwhelmingly weighted in favour of XeLaTeX users - which
is fine as long as someone is working on a plain XeTeX manual of comparable
scope. I don't use (Xe)LaTeX myself, and I think the applie
Hi
I'm not sure what reversing you get (the whole link? individual letters?),
but in case it helps here is some antediluvian code that I used to use many
years ago to get occasional Hebrew words in ordinary EmTeX. You would want
to put the back-to-front text in the \reversedtext macro at the
If you have got to a point where everything works except that the right-hand
side has slipped to a measurable extent (viz. the height plus depth of the
left-hand side), then you could measure the left-hand side as an initial
operation, store that measurement, and start the right-hand side with
08:16
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] \botmark and \firstmark not working for me ...
Selon Ron Aaron :
On Sunday 01 August 2010 06:23:19 Ron Aaron wrote:
> On Sunday 01 August 2010 00:47:59 John Was wrote:
> I wonder if my problem stems from the "mark" being
> inside a vbox? If that
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