[XeTeX] Beamer handout issue

2012-09-22 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Hi After being very frustrated when trying to create a Beamer handout, I tried the minimal example below, which I found on the 'net. No go: like before, the slides output were too large for the pagesize and I got only the top left portion of each slide, regardless of options. Then, when I changed

Re: [XeTeX] Beamer handout issue

2012-09-22 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
K >>> On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 6:20 PM, in message <505e0185.94ab.00c...@wlu.ca>, Karljurgen Feuerherm wrote: > Hi > > After being very frustrated when trying to create a Beamer handout, I > tried the minimal example below, which I found on the 'net. No go:

Re: [XeTeX] Linguistic structural analysis

2014-06-06 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Hello, Tikz is probably the cat's meow, once learned, but it does take time (I'm still working on it myself). You might find some ideas here which could help: http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/clmt/latex4ling/ Good luck! Karljürgen G. Feuerherm, PhD | 4-148 Department of History | W

[XeTeX] bidi vs luabidi and polyglossia with Hebrew

2014-07-29 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
On July 5, I posted a query due to a problem I was having in creating media9 buttons in RTL mode. The error I was getting when placing a media button command in an RTL environment was "xdvipdfmx:fatal: A pending form XObject at the end of page.² A. Grahn offered a solution (http://tex.stackexchang

Re: [XeTeX] bidi vs luabidi and polyglossia with Hebrew

2014-07-29 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Thank-you, Khaled. That is encouraging! I will try to play with this. K On 2014-07-29, 19:33, "Khaled Hosny" wrote: >On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:24:52PM +0000, Karljurgen Feuerherm wrote: >> * Why does this work with luabidi but not bidi? (or even, what¹s a >>likely &

[XeTeX] XeLaTeXmk in MikTeX?

2014-10-23 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
I was wondering whether there was a make facility within the MikTeX installation which could be activated similar to the XeLaTeXmk available in MacTeX installations? I don't use MikTeX myself but my university labs have it installed and it would be helpful to make it available there. Many than

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeXmk in MikTeX?

2014-10-23 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
rbert Schulz" wrote: > >> On Oct 23, 2014, at 10:07 AM, Karljurgen Feuerherm >>wrote: >> >> I was wondering whether there was a make facility within the MikTeX >>installation which could be activated similar to the XeLaTeXmk available >>in MacTeX insta

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeXmk in MikTeX?

2014-10-23 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Good to know. I’ll look into it! K On 2014-10-23, 11:34, "Herbert Schulz" wrote: > >> On Oct 23, 2014, at 11:05 AM, Karljurgen Feuerherm >>wrote: >> >> Thanks, Herb. >> >> I¹ll see whether I can cobble something together. (I don¹t work on &g

Re: [XeTeX] Graphics overwriting text

2014-11-21 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
For what it's worth, this last few months I have found that Beamer presentations with embedded JPG graphics (which worked fine last year) when recompiled exhibit the same problem. Not always, but fairly consistently. Evidently something has changed in the handling of such files. I've been using

[XeTeX] Bidi, polyglossia, and luatex

2015-04-20 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Greetings, I have been working on a project which involves Hebrew, thus polyglossia and bidi. I am also using media9, and that eventually meant switching from xelatex to lualatex. At someone's suggestion(http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/188434/media-button-in-rtl) I was able to circumve

Re: [XeTeX] Bidi, polyglossia, and luatex

2015-04-20 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
+ schrieb Karljurgen Feuerherm: > > >> I have posted to the lua list also, as the more likely candidate, but >>no response so far. > >Which isn't really surprising: You didn't provide a minimal example >- only some links and rather vage error descriptions. I woul

[XeTeX] Media9 buttons in RTL text

2015-04-24 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Attempting to rephrase a problem in a more straightforward manne, going back to the root…. Consider the MWE below. This compiles fine and produces the expected output. However, uncommenting lines 16 and 32 in order to get the buttons/words in proper RTL order for Hebrew gives the following erro

Re: [XeTeX] Media9 buttons in RTL text

2015-04-24 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
I tried all kinds of variations (including \texthebrew{} in the button labels), but not this! I guess the \textenglish{} wrappers keep things tidy, somehow? Thanks so much. K From: David Carlisle mailto:d.p.carli...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: "xetex@tug.org" mailto:xetex@tug.

Re: [XeTeX] Media9 buttons in RTL text

2015-04-24 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
ailto:d.p.carli...@gmail.com>>On 24 April 2015 at 18:35, Karljurgen Feuerherm mailto:kfeuerh...@wlu.ca>> wrote: I tried all kinds of variations (including \texthebrew{} in the button labels), but not this! I guess the \textenglish{} wrappers keep things tidy, somehow? Thanks so much. K

Re: [XeTeX] Media9 buttons in RTL text

2015-04-24 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Dear Arthur, Thanks for the note! I do realize the usual MWE requirement, and I did not provide one at first because really what I was trying to find out was not related to a specific example, but more the matter of whether Luabidi was likely to be upgraded so as to be as fully functional as XeTe

Re: [XeTeX] Media9 buttons in RTL text

2015-04-25 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
On 2015-04-25, 15:29, "Arthur Reutenauer" wrote: >> I do realize the usual MWE requirement, and I did not provide one at >>first >> because really what I was trying to find out was not related to a >>specific >> example, but more the matter of whether Luabidi was likely to be >>upgraded >> so a

Re: [XeTeX] Media9 buttons in RTL text

2015-04-25 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Thanks for all these thoughts. Incidentally, for what it's worth, while it was working (all three weeks or so), I found the Hebrew as well as the English output just fine :) [contra my expectation, given the caveat in the Lua manual and the polyglossia warning] [and I see that somehow I sent a re

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX maintenance

2015-04-25 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Dear Khaled, Your efforts have been deeply appreciated. I can only imagine the time this must have cost. Best wishes in your other endeavours! K On 2015-04-25, 13:31, "Khaled Hosny" wrote: >Due to lack of time, skills and motivation, I¹ll be no longer able to >work on XeTeX, so I¹m stepping d

[XeTeX] Future *TeX [was: XeTeX maintenance]

2015-04-26 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
As noted earlier in the parent thread, one of the problems is lack of peopleŠ. I¹ve been conscious for some time that I wish I knew more about the guts of Xe(La)TeX so I could 1) be more efficient at diagnosing my own problems and 2) be able to devise solutions and so contribute back to the commun

Re: [XeTeX] Future *TeX [was: XeTeX maintenance]

2015-04-27 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
think. K On 2015-04-26, 21:34, "Simon Cozens" wrote: >On 26/04/2015 23:02, Karljurgen Feuerherm wrote: >> b) assuming a certain level of Xe(La)TeX competence at the Œpresenting¹ >> level, what recommendations would experts on this list make to Œupping >>the >&

Re: [XeTeX] [6933] luatex output encoding

2016-01-12 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
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Re: [XeTeX] [6933] luatex output encoding

2016-01-13 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Sincerest apologies to the list for this‹I¹d totally forgotten to take this into account. I didn¹t even know about the problem as this message got caught in the university spam filter. Thanks to Apostolos for pointing it out so politely! KF On 2016-01-12, 15:40, "XeTeX on behalf of Karlj

Re: [XeTeX] bidi-problem --> problems with lines not starting in position 1 (even comments)

2016-11-18 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Hello Herb, That’s not quite the same thing, is it, Herb? >From the documentation of Polyglossia, p. 3*: "The current version of polyglossia makes use of some convenient macros defined in the etoolbox package by Philipp Lehmann. Being designed for XƎLATEX and LuaLATEX, it obviously also relies on

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

2019-03-16 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
FWIW, I am surprised (though I don’t know why the difference). The test file I ran, on which I based my earlier comment, included the packages below. As you can see, several of these are on your list. It did burp on the inclusion of one particular graphics file, which I did not pursue…. If some

Re: [XeTeX] PDF Creator: "bidi"?

2010-03-17 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Not to fuel fire or anything, but this package (which I don't yet use) sounds like one I should likely consider, so some clarification would help: No, you're not interested, or no, you're not looking for a new maintainer? These seem mutually exclusive to me. Thanks! K >>> Vafa Khalighi 16

Re: [XeTeX] Cutting a character

2010-04-10 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
I had been thinking of a related problem, may I pose it here? I wish to shade quarters of characters, top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right, or various combinations thereof. I'm still pretty new at this, so if anyone can help with that, I'd be grateful. K Karljürgen G. Feuerherm, P

Re: [XeTeX] experimental new xetex version - with margin-kerningsupport

2010-05-04 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Jonathan, I'm curious what support is required for XeTeX/XeLaTeX... ... specifically, I'm experimenting with Plan9, to which someone has now ported TeX, and I'm wondering whether these tools could be ported over also. Are they coded in C or C++? Many thanks, K >>> Jonathan Kew 04/05/2010 4:

Re: [XeTeX] experimental new xetex version - with margin-kerningsupport

2010-05-04 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Ah, bummer. No C++ on Plan9... :( But thanks! K >>> Peter Dyballa 04/05/2010 5:40 pm >>> Am 04.05.2010 um 23:11 schrieb Karljurgen Feuerherm: > Are they coded in C or C++? In both. (And also Objective-C for xdv2pdf.) At least that's the state from before the intr

Re: [XeTeX] experimental new xetex version - with margin-kerningsupport

2010-05-04 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
preliminary enquiry. But I appreciate the details. K >>> Peter Dyballa 04/05/2010 6:49 pm >>> Am 04.05.2010 um 23:54 schrieb Karljurgen Feuerherm: > Ah, bummer. No C++ on Plan9... :( No GCC? If you have some elder GCC without g++, why doesn't it work to compile a n

Re: [XeTeX] Ancient Hebrew font problem

2010-08-24 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Hi As I do some Hebrew, and have just migrated to a Mac (last month), I am curious why the font feature need not be declared on a Mac? Thanks KF >>> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:02 PM, in message <4c72d3dd.8000...@gmail.com>, Gareth Hughes wrote: > Carsten Ziegert wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am faci

Re: [XeTeX] Ancient Hebrew font problem

2010-08-25 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Thanks, that helps! K >>> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:17 PM, in message <4c746105.1040...@gmail.com>, Gareth Hughes wrote: > > Karljurgen Feuerherm wrote: >> Hi >> >> As I do some Hebrew, and have just migrated to a Mac (last month), I am >> curi

Re: [XeTeX] Ancient Hebrew font problem

2010-08-25 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Hi Ok, I was wondering about that. In the past I've used the Ezra SIL font. I've not had occasion to work with Hebrew yet since the transition, so I'll keep all this in mind when the time comes. Best K >>> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:58 PM, in message <4c7486ba.3090...@verizon.net>, David Perr

Re: [XeTeX] patach furtivum in biblical hebrew

2010-09-13 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Hi Carsten, Try The Ezra SIL SR font for the cheth and pathach. I believe will position the pathach correctly. (Meaning, I've done that in MS Word but haven't tried it in *TeX (yet). Still in process of getting up and running on my new machine Best K >>> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:40 PM, in

Re: [XeTeX] patach furtivum in biblical hebrew

2010-09-13 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
OOPS--may have got it backwards. It's been a while. Apologies... K >>> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:56 PM, in message <4c8e65c3.2010...@fas.harvard.edu>, Efraim Feinstein wrote: > Hi, > > On 09/13/2010 01:40 PM, Carsten Ziegert wrote: >> can anybody tell me how to implement a patach furtivum? I

[XeTeX] Font corruption (?) problem

2010-11-06 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Hello, I have a peculiar problem that's driving me crazy. I'm using a MacBook Pro under Snow Leopard and MacTex, installed a few months back. I have a XeTeX source file (see below) which compiled fine, and produced a nice PDF. I then copied four lines from the PDF and pasted them into MS Word so

Re: [XeTeX] Font corruption (?) problem

2010-11-06 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Addendum: This time, removing and reinstalling the font corrected the problem. Doesn't seem to be consistent... KF >>> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 11:51 AM, in message <4cd54153.94ab.00c...@wlu.ca>, "Karljurgen Feuerherm" wrote: > Hello, > > I have a p

Re: [XeTeX] Font corruption (?) problem

2010-11-07 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Hello Ross, Thanks for the response. Why use Word... well, because I've just migrated to Mac from Windows, and it never occurred to me to use wc. Even though I've done a fair amount of Unix stuff since the move, there's still a lot of past experience to overcome! So thanks for reminding me abo

Re: [XeTeX] Font corruption (?) problem

2010-11-08 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
01...@mq.edu.au>, Ross Moore wrote: > Hello Karljurgen, > > Sent from my iPad > > On 07/11/2010, at 2:51 AM, "Karljurgen Feuerherm" wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have a peculiar problem that's driving me crazy. >> >> I'm using

Re: [XeTeX] Font corruption (?) problem

2010-11-08 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
OOPS I meant to send this off-list. My apologies. K >>> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 3:29 PM, in message <4cd81756.94ab.00c...@wlu.ca>, "Karljurgen Feuerherm" wrote: > Hi again, > > With respect to the problem you mentioned to me... I was speaking with the

[XeTeX] Biblatex and Biber UTF-8 file

2010-11-11 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Hello all, I seem to be running into a bit of a contradictory situation. I wish to use Biblatex, and the bib file must be Unicode to accommodate all the characters that will appear there. I understand that I have to use Biber as a backend to have a Unicode bib file, and on p40 of the Biblatex m

Re: [XeTeX] Biblatex and Biber UTF-8 file

2010-11-12 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
ni.local>, Gildas Hamel wrote: > * Karljurgen Feuerherm (kfeuerh...@wlu.ca) wrote: > > |> I wish to use Biblatex, and the bib file must be Unicode to accommodate > all the characters that will appear there. I understand that I have to use > Biber as a backend to have

Re: [XeTeX] Biblatex and Biber UTF-8 file

2010-11-12 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
-you! K >>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 4:27 AM, in message >>> <1487wygihnyw9$@nililand.de>, Ulrike Fischer wrote: > Am Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:00:12 -0500 schrieb Karljurgen Feuerherm: > >> Hello all, > >> I seem to be running into a bit of a contra

Re: [XeTeX] Biblatex and Biber UTF-8 file

2010-11-12 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
That's what I did :) K >>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:01 AM, in message <837b144b-0170-47db-89b0-a344ffb85...@wideopenwest.com>, Herbert Schulz wrote: > On Nov 12, 2010, at 9:22 AM, Karljurgen Feuerherm wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> As it happens,

Re: [XeTeX] Biblatex and Biber UTF-8 file

2010-11-12 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Ok, what I did was download MacTeX2010... Then I used the TeXLive utility to upgrade modules as it became evident that they were either missing or (already) out of date. If there's a better way to do this, I'll be happy to use it. (Depending upon where I am, upgrade all is/isn't an option; but

Re: [XeTeX] Biblatex and Biber UTF-8 file

2010-11-12 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
No worries, Herb, I took it as recommendation in any case :) K >>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:11 PM, in message , Herbert Schulz wrote: > On Nov 12, 2010, at 10:38 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > >> >> >> Dominik Wujastyk wrote: >> >>> There's an issue here, Phil, about where

Re: [XeTeX] Biblatex and Biber UTF-8 file

2010-11-12 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Nov 12, 2010 at 4:58 PM, in message , Herbert Schulz wrote: > On Nov 12, 2010, at 1:28 PM, Karljurgen Feuerherm wrote: > >> Ok, what I did was download MacTeX2010... Then I used the TeXLive utility to > upgrade modules as it became evident that they were either missing or > (

Re: [XeTeX] Biblatex and Biber UTF-8 file

2010-11-12 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
pplications just not really up to snuff. K >>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:10 PM, in message , Herbert Schulz wrote: > On Nov 12, 2010, at 6:10 PM, Karljurgen Feuerherm wrote: > >> Thanks, Herb. I'll probably do that when I'm back at the office on Monday. I >

[XeTeX] Superscript and Small Caps problem

2011-08-18 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Hello, The minimal example below works as written. However, when I change the main font to Linux Libertine, the 'lú' no longer superscripts, and if I change the sans serif font to Linux Biolinum, the h-breve isn't small capped (uppercase h-breve is in the font). OS X Lion and have updated to MacTe

Re: [XeTeX] Superscript and Small Caps problem

2011-08-19 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Hello Andy, Thanks--this does help. the \sffamily wasn't a typo--I did want sansserif, it's just for testing purposes that I couldn't quickly find a font that would make the example work. Interesting that the h-breve isn't in the small caps. I suppose another solution would be to add it in (and

Re: [XeTeX] rtl Longtable package

2011-08-25 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
I suspect this is more an attempt to be extra polite which didn't come out perfectly in English than to be pushy or demanding... it's presumably understood that list subscribers try very hard to be helpful, and that any help offered comes at the expense of the one helping. K >>> On Thu, Aug 2

Re: [XeTeX] Missing char, missing footnote (source attached)

2011-10-11 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
y and Classical Studies Wilfrid Laurier University 75 University Avenue West Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 Tel. (519) 884-1970 x3193 Fax (519) 883-0991 (ATTN Arch. & Classics) >>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 2:42 PM, in message <4e9455bb.94ab.00c...@wlu.ca>, "Karljurgen Feuerhe

Re: [XeTeX] Missing char, missing footnote

2011-10-11 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Hello Ross, >>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 3:15 PM, in message >> (2) The footnote has vanished. I suppose that means footnotes aren't legal > in tables of this type... Can someone suggest a solution to this? > > The footnote occurs within a floating table. Which page should it go onto? > Put the {

Re: [XeTeX] Missing char, missing footnote

2011-10-12 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Thank-you to all for the various options, which I plan to pursue, but have not yet been able to do. Much appreciated. Zdenek points to the crux of the matter: since I want the label to appear in a list of tables, it makes sense to use a table, and make a few adjustments. In general, algorithms, b

Re: [XeTeX] ascii to unicode map for Hebrew

2011-10-16 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Perhaps this will help? There are some conversion utilities available from sil.org to bring old legacy encodings into Unicode; see here: http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=SILHebrUnic2 where they talk about mapping files. But one would need to know the nature of the lega

[XeTeX] ftnxtra

2011-10-20 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Hello, Following up on the footnote in tables issue I brought up a short while back, I tried Vafa's suggestion to use ftnxtra. The example below works, until I uncomment the \table{} lines. Since I needed caption, that was the essential issue... Does anyone know what's up and/or what to do about

Re: [XeTeX] ftnxtra

2011-10-20 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
\mytabular > > \let\endtabular\myendtabular > > \begin{document} > > \begin{table} > > \begin{tabular}[h]{|c|} > > \hline > > Table cell text\footnote{Testing footnote} > > \end{tabular} > > \end{table} > > \end{document} > > > On Fri, Oct 2

[XeTeX] Synching PDF paper size with typesetting size

2011-11-05 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Hi Usually, I need to use US letter paper size--but for one document I'm working on, I want B5. I'm using Memoir for this one, and have set B5 accordingly. Typesets fine... But the output PDF is still letter size--slightly annoying in terms of visual impressions. Is there a way to get tell the

Re: [XeTeX] Synching PDF paper size with typesetting size

2011-11-05 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
I was using that, switched to Memoir. Surely there must be another way? Thanks, though... K >>> On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 2:34 PM, in message , Martin Schröder wrote: > 2011/11/5 Karljurgen Feuerherm : >> Typesets fine... But the output PDF is still letter size--slightly annoyi

Re: [XeTeX] Synching PDF paper size with typesetting size

2011-11-05 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Hmm. Is there not an integrated solution, set one thing to do it both places? K >>> On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 2:41 PM, in message <0115a439-cce7-4ac5-9b9e-104be45fe...@web.de>, Peter Dyballa wrote: > Am 05.11.2011 um 19:06 schrieb Karljurgen Feuerherm: > >> Typesets

Re: [XeTeX] Synching PDF paper size with typesetting size

2011-11-05 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Ok! I was looking for something along those lines. Will try this. Thanks K >>> On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 2:48 PM, in message <7af28486-bcbb-4049-8811-abff42fb5...@web.de>, Peter Dyballa wrote: > Am 05.11.2011 um 19:06 schrieb Karljurgen Feuerherm: > >> Typesets fi

Re: [XeTeX] Synching PDF paper size with typesetting size

2011-11-05 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Oh, well--maybe it does. I was thinking of them as alternative 'book' packages. I'm still working out the pros and cons of all these things... K >>> On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 4:38 PM, in message , Martin Schröder wrote: > 2011/11/5 Karljurgen Feuerherm : >> I w

Re: [XeTeX] Synching PDF paper size with typesetting size

2011-11-05 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
PM, in message <4eb5a2b1.6060...@rhul.ac.uk>, "Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)" wrote: > > Karljurgen Feuerherm wrote: > >> Hmm. Is there not an integrated solution, set one thing to do it both > places? > > Well, specifying a given constant in exa

Re: [XeTeX] Synching PDF paper size with typesetting size

2011-11-05 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
y-fqdn.de>, Heiko Oberdiek wrote: > On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 02:06:43PM -0400, Karljurgen Feuerherm wrote: > >> Usually, I need to use US letter paper size--but for one document I'm >> working on, I want B5. I'm using Memoir for this one, and have set B5 >> accordin

Re: [XeTeX] Synching PDF paper size with typesetting size

2011-11-07 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Thanks--I'll keep this on file! K >>> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 7:43 AM, in message <502af2c0-e9fe-4ca8-98f2-28e037706...@frycomm.com>, William Adams wrote: > On Nov 5, 2011, at 5:14 PM, Karljurgen Feuerherm wrote: > >> It is true, of course, that one may *not* wa

Re: [XeTeX]   in XeTeX

2011-11-14 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
>> Now, for the youngsters XML, TeX, HTML are per definition plain text files. > > No, they are text files, not /plain/ text files. Look > at some mime types : > > text/plain (for plain text) > text/html (for HTML) It depends on who is reading them. Their markup is markup only fron th

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-14 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
>>> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 12:15 PM, in message <4ec14cb5.7000...@rhul.ac.uk>, Philip TAYLOR wrote: >> XeTeX is a TeX engine. Obviously, it is free to define its own input >> format, and that format already differs from other TeX engines by (for >> instance) allowing some Unicode code points ou

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-14 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
t it. K >>> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 2:15 PM, in message , wrote: > On Mon, 14 Nov 2011, Karljurgen Feuerherm wrote: >> I use U+12000 and above regularly, as a case in point... > > Do you think that basic formatting control functions should be bound to > code points

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-15 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
(just as an aside) I always thought that people who said 'I could care less' somehow hadn't heard the 'nt' and didn't consciously parse the grammar of the sentence, making it a kind of frozen form. Similar in process to how people (in my area in Canada) at one time would reply to 'no way' with 'ye

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-15 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
I was going to make the following point earlier--maybe in light of Phil's conclusion I should do it now. There seems to be a tendency not to distinguish between a(n orginal) character in the sense of character of a writing system, and a computer character. The former are visible symbols on a back

Re: [XeTeX] Wacky behavior of XeLaTeX in TeXLive 2011

2011-11-16 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
I used to... but moved to Mac so don't anymore. I can't remember the nature of the difficulties, though, it's been a while. K >>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:13 AM, in message <4ec3d301.2050...@gmail.com>, Alessandro Ceschini wrote: > Hi everybody > > So, no one here has got problems with TeXWork

Re: [XeTeX] Whitespace in input

2011-11-19 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
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Re: [XeTeX] Diacritics in color

2011-12-01 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
It's not given that that's the only conceivable application. But even if it is, that's plenty useful in and of itself. K > But I am willing to submit that this is a difficult task, and probably > one of limited importance -- I can see it being useful only for people > who for some reason need th

Re: [XeTeX] Diacritics in color

2011-12-01 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
I seem to recall from the days when I was doing demos/mock-ups for the cuneiform encoding proposal that SIL's graphite/WorldPad combo allowed one to do things of this sort; it involved specifying sub-areas in special font tables, which the software of course had to know about. Not sure whether tha

Re: [XeTeX] Diacritics in color

2011-12-02 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
wrote: > OpenType has ligature caret info (in GDEF table) but is less flexible > than what Graphite offers (only horizontal position is provided) and > very few fonts, if any, have it. > > Regards, > Khaled > > On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 01:56:45PM -0500, Karljurgen Feuerhe

[XeTeX] Running footnotes

2012-02-07 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Hello all, Not really a XeTeX question (likely), but-- Is there a way to get running footnotes (i.e. continuing across the width of the page, without line breaks) without putting material into a table? Thank-you! K Karljürgen G. Feuerherm, PhD Undergraduate Advisor Department of Archaeology

Re: [XeTeX] Running footnotes

2012-02-09 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Hi Thanks--unfortunately, I do use XeLaTeX ;( K >>> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:41 PM, in message <20120208214132.ga23...@ebed.etf.cuni.cz>, Petr Tomasek wrote: > On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 09:43:05AM -0500, Karljurgen Feuerherm wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Not r

Re: [XeTeX] Running footnotes

2012-02-09 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
ot; and > "manyfoot", but I suppose this is known to you and you mean something > different. > > With best regards, > Jens Bakker > > > > Am 09.02.2012 um 16:45 schrieb Karljurgen Feuerherm: > >> Hi >> >> Thanks--unfortunately, I d

Re: [XeTeX] Running footnotes

2012-02-09 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Ah--I shall check that, thanks! K >>> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 9:30 PM, in message <20120209023021.GA13677@gildasmini.local>, Gildas Hamel wrote: > * Petr Tomasek (toma...@etf.cuni.cz) scripsit: > |> On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 09:43:05AM -0500, Karljurgen Feuerherm wrote:

Re: [XeTeX] Running footnotes

2012-02-09 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
message , Herbert Schulz wrote: > On Feb 9, 2012, at 3:49 PM, Karljurgen Feuerherm wrote: > >> >> BTW the other package, manyfoot, does not appear on my system, though I > download everything on MacTeX... >> > > Howdy, > > Why do you say that? It certainly