Re: [XeTeX] diacritics stacking using anchor points

2021-10-25 Thread Michael Maxwell
> I also fixed the stacking_above_AND_below. NewCM will have stellar > support for diacritics stacking  You probably know this, but 'stacked diacritics' refers to the stacking of diacritics above each other. Maybe also to one diacritic above and one below the base char, but I've only heard

Re: [XeTeX] strange case of overlapping graphics

2021-06-10 Thread Michael Maxwell
>>> There is no overlapping if pdflatex ix used but the images >>> are distorted, If it's the case that s.t. is wrong with the image (and okular, gwenview and gimp are compensating somehow), could you import the image into one of these other programs, then export it from there? On 6/10/2021

Re: [XeTeX] how to suppress doted circle next to a glyph

2020-09-25 Thread Michael Maxwell
In my experience, a dotted circle is an indication that there's a non-base character which needs a base character before it, but there's no suitable base character. If you type a Unicode Combining Acute Accent (U+0301), but there's no base character (like a vowel) preceding it, you'll get

Re: [XeTeX] startup time

2020-07-03 Thread Michael Maxwell
On 7/3/2020 2:28 PM, Zdenek Wagner wrote: There are several options: 1. Dump your own format with your styles. You will have to regenerate the format after update of any of these style files and you will have to take care of dependencies 2. Install TeX on a fast disk such as SSD 3.

[XeTeX] startup time

2020-07-03 Thread Michael Maxwell
I've noticed (and you probably have too) that a good proportion--maybe half, for a 30 or so page document--of the runtime for a xelatex document is startup: reading the style files. Since I re-use the same style files for most papers, I seldom have a mistake in those, so it seems a waste to