Re: Google Disk (was: XeLaTeX to Word/OpenOffice - the state of the art?)

2019-03-16 Thread Karljürgen Feuerherm
Ross, Your reply caught my eye, and I am now looking at the pdfx package documentation. May I ask, if accessibility is a concern, why a-2b/-2u rather than -ua-1, which seems directly targeted at this? Many thanks, K > You should use the pdfx package and prepare for PDF/A-2b or -2u. > This

Re: XeLaTeX to Word/OpenOffice - progress report

2019-03-13 Thread Karljürgen Feuerherm
Just as a codicil... I heard of pandoc only courtesy of this thread and have tried it. I write my university syllabi in highly modular XeLaTeX code with oodles of packages and commands defined by me. As the university has lately been making noises about verifying accessibility and I don’t have

Re: [XeTeX] The status of XeTeX

2018-09-16 Thread Karljürgen Feuerherm
I think that historically what you say about print is true... but I produce many many PDFs (syllabi, documentation, slide presentations) and for all intents and purposes non of them go to print anymore; simpler and cheaper to view on screen. Still interested in the answer though! Karljürgen

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX bugs in bidirectional typesetting

2016-11-20 Thread Karljürgen Feuerherm
Hello Vafa, Yes indeed, I thought it was very kind of you to think of me, and I hope you got my reply at that time. If not, you should know that your careful concern was deeply appreciated. I wish you the best in this venture. Pity I haven't got the savvy at this point to help. Happy to help

Re: [XeTeX] bidi-problem

2016-11-18 Thread Karljürgen Feuerherm
I am not able to compile this (missing package hevea, but as far as I know I have a complete installation), but you could try removing the package xltxtra; this reminds me of a problem I experienced recently. K > On Nov 18, 2016, at 04:49, Johann Spies wrote: > > I am working on a document in

Re: [XeTeX] Random number primitives

2016-11-13 Thread Karljürgen Feuerherm
Of course. And while the harvest might be greater (not necessarily great as such), the workers are few…. > On Nov 13, 2016, at 11:28, Joseph Wright > wrote: > > On 13/11/2016 15:49, Karljürgen Feuerherm wrote: >> Well… does it have to be either/or, anyhow? Taking Apo

Re: [XeTeX] Random number primitives

2016-11-13 Thread Karljürgen Feuerherm
Well… does it have to be either/or, anyhow? Taking Apostolos’ last point, why not have a switch? It makes sense to allow for cross-platform compatibility, but there’s no reason to think that *nobody* would appreciate an improved algorithm…. K > On Nov 13, 2016, at 10:46, Apostolos Syropoulos

Re: [XeTeX] prioritizing OTF fonts

2016-07-27 Thread Karljürgen Feuerherm
I can answer part of this… It loads TTF just fine, as I’ve a font of my own design that I’ve used with no problems. (Just retested now to be sure nothing has changed.) I don’t know about part two :) Karljürgen > On Jul 27, 2016, at 16:30, maxwell wrote: > > Does fontspec load *only* OpenType