Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX documentation initiative

2010-12-23 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 12/23/2010 5:54 AM, David Perry wrote: Dear List, A while back Mike Kamermans got us off to a really good start on documentation for XeLaTeX users and people seemed enthusiastic about it. I had planned to write a couple of sections during my Christmas break. A quick check just now shows

Re: [XeTeX] Auto Font and Language Package in XeTeX

2010-12-22 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 12/22/2010 6:28 AM, Yves Codet wrote: Hello Michiel. Thanks a lot for this package. There's a small typo in the documentation; if I understand well the paragraph 4.3 should read \setTransitionsFor[3], not \setTransitions[3]. Quite so, I shall fix that and submit the update to CTAN =D

Re: [XeTeX] Auto Font and Language Package in XeTeX (Khaled Hosny)

2010-12-22 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 12/21/2010 6:04 PM, Venkatesan. S.K. (TNQ) wrote: Do unicode committee have a proof of concept application (like Amaya browser for W3 HTML) or a font? They don't need a PoC application, as the algorithms are fully described. The problems usually occur when specific font features need to b

Re: [XeTeX] Auto Font and Language Package in XeTeX

2010-12-21 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi Yves (and everyone else) the ucharclasses package is now on CTAN (http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/ucharclasses/), so if you want to see if it breaks in combination with how you use polyglossia, let me know what the result is. - Mike "Pomax" Kamermans nihongoresources.c

Re: [XeTeX] Auto Font and Language Package in XeTeX

2010-12-20 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 12/20/2010 8:13 AM, Yves Codet wrote: Hello. I couldn't try your package, both links seem to be broken but I found the documentation here: http://projects.nihongoresources.com/downloadables/ucharclasses.pdf According to what I read, if I want to use polyglossia to load hyphenation p

Re: [XeTeX] Auto Font and Language Package in XeTeX

2010-12-20 Thread Michiel Kamermans
I long had that on my todo list, but I'm yet to figure out a proper user interface for it; one needs to take care of different font styles, optical sizes etc. e.g. English ARABIC {\it english ARABIC} should work and get the Arabic text assigned the proper italic font and so on. The code at lua

Re: [XeTeX] Auto Font and Language Package in XeTeX

2010-12-20 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Alright, I finished the ucharclasses package at least to a functional degree, with the project page for it at http://projects.nihongoresources.com/xelatex/ucharclasses (it's been submitted to CTAN, so once it's in the listing it'll be nice and easy to grab). If anyone has any improvement requ

Re: [XeTeX] Ellipsis

2010-12-17 Thread Michiel Kamermans
The PDF specification (which is now the ISO 32000 specification for portable documents) does allow for different on-screen and "when searched/copy-pasted" text, if you need this functionality (known as "replacement text", §14.9.4). It sounds like what you actually want is for the PDF reader to

Re: [XeTeX] Latex+Tamil

2010-12-14 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi T.Sengottuvel, Is this a ttf/otf font? I don't have ubuntu/debian, so I have no idea how to obtain this font. I googled for it a bit, but could not find a compiled .ttf or .otf version. I used the following code with Code2000 instead, and that seems to work fine \documentclass{article} \

Re: [XeTeX] Unicode Arabic hyperlinks

2010-12-14 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On a sidenote, don't use \usepackage{fontspec,xltxtra,xunicode}, just use \usepackage{fontspec} - fontspec already loads xunicode, and as far as I can recall xlxtra only gives the XeLaTeX macro. - Mike "Pomax" Kamermans nihongoresources.com -- S

Re: [XeTeX] Auto Font and Language Package in XeTeX

2010-12-13 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 12/12/2010 9:57 PM, Venkatesan. S.K. (TNQ) wrote: If you look at current generation browsers, they assign fonts by default to all language scripts by their unicode plane. Say, Greek="Palatino Linotype" etc. They also allow you to change the default font settings. It would be a nice idea to

Re: [XeTeX] installing mac font on linux

2010-12-12 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi Tim, Yes, it's Font Book, the mac app. And you're right, the font files were 0 byte files. With your help and Michiel's, I finally figured out that I had bought TrueType and needed OpenType. A quick trip to buy the opentype version of URW's Lucida Handwriting and my linux server is busine

Re: [XeTeX] installing mac font on linux

2010-12-12 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 12/12/2010 9:56 AM, Tim Arnold wrote: On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Peter Dyballa > wrote: Am 12.12.2010 um 00:21 schrieb Tim Arnold: I suppose there's no way to convert to TrueType? There is: FontForge. (Usually your commercial font lice

Re: [XeTeX] supplying missing glyphs?

2010-12-06 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Andrea, how can I upgrade the Times New Roman on my XP computer, which doesn't have some of the characters that are in the Times New Roman on my Vista laptop? First, you'll have to get a license that grants you the use of that font, for the machine you want to use it on. Typically this m

Re: [XeTeX] supplying missing glyphs?

2010-12-06 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Adam, On 12/2/2010 4:20 PM, Adam McCollum wrote: Dear list members, I like the Hoefler Text font very much, but I see that it apparently doesn't have glyphs for a number of letters with diacritics, which I sometimes need for transliteration; please see the example text below. I've tried both

Re: [XeTeX] Two fontspec (v2.1b) problems

2010-11-08 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi Richard, it's a known issue (https://github.com/wspr/fontspec/issues/closed#issue/79 and https://github.com/wspr/fontspec/issues/#issue/65), but we'll have to wait for either Will or Khaled to come up with an adequate fix for the next release. - Mike "Pomax" Kamermans nihongoresources.co

[XeTeX] fontspec infinitely recurses when there is no 'Latin' script in a font.

2010-10-06 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi all, it appears the latest fontspec has a bug when it comes to loading fonts that do not have an explicit OpenType "Latin" script entry; fontspec will look for this data, cannot find it, and then defaults the script to Latin before trying to access the font again. I can't find that entry,

Re: [XeTeX] fontspec location problems in MiKTeX

2010-10-05 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 10/5/2010 3:15 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: Make sure you don't have to different versions of "MS Mincho" font accessible to XeTeX (possiply in different formats) as this is known to cause this kind of issues. Indeed. For some reason there's was TTC as well as a TTF for it... TTF deleted, co

Re: [XeTeX] fontspec location problems in MiKTeX

2010-10-05 Thread Michiel Kamermans
I tried updating to MiKTeX 2.9 beta, to see if that solved the problem - everything now at least resolves to the right location, but fontspec is exhibiting a different problem. Take the following UTF-8 encoded .tex file: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont{MS Mincho} \beg

[XeTeX] fontspec location problems in MiKTeX

2010-10-05 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi, just updated MiKTeX 2.8, and then tries to download it from repository location tex/xetex/fontspec - it doesn't see it there, and then tries to download it from an online repository. However, fontspec is now located in tex/latex/fontspec... is this a problem with MiKTeX or is it a problem

Re: [XeTeX] Problem changing default fonts

2010-10-03 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Drébon, in the world of typography it is a well known fact that Helvetica and clones lack small-caps, and many vehemently argue that this is right and proper, because "it is in a typeface family that shouldn't have small-caps". However, that means the trick is actually really simple: don't tr

Re: [XeTeX] Tables

2010-10-03 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 10/2/2010 3:29 PM, Mike Maxwell wrote: Interesting. We're producing grammars. They're XML (if you want to mark structure, use XML!), and they get converted to XeLaTeX for typesetting (if you want to typeset, use LaTeX!). One of the problems we've had is that of deciding whether tables are

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

2010-10-01 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Are these system wide fonts, accessible to all programs installed, or fonts in some dir that is supposed to be considered "special" by some program? - Mike "Pomax" Kamermans nihongoresources.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, e

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-30 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 9/30/2010 8:33 AM, Axel Kielhorn wrote: The main problem is that lshort is a latin1 document, thus it is almost impossible (yes, there is arabtex and CJK) to show examples. well... we are on the xetex mailing list: save the source as utf-8 unicode and then compile it with xelatex? =)

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-27 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 9/27/2010 8:53 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: You know, because Windows has the most consistent user interface an OS ever had. (From some one who is yet to see two "native" Windows applications that behave the same) Yeah, yeah, look, my name isn't "Gates", but in windows the idea is, and virt

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-27 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 9/27/2010 11:23 AM, Barry MacKichan wrote: Microsoft's recommendations on the UI of programs are only recommendations. If the task requires it, two windows are fine. This is what you would have if you previewed in Acrobat Reader anyway -- two apps but also two windows. Yes, they are, and

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-27 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 9/27/2010 7:45 AM, Axel Kielhorn wrote: Is there any editor with LaTeX support? How about TeXworks? I know that TeXniccenter does not support Unicode. (This is what lshort recommends) Another suggestion is LEd but it seems to be pre-Unicode as well. I install notepad2 on every windows mach

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-26 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 9/26/2010 6:56 AM, Axel Kielhorn wrote: I have to disagree, Vim and emacs (or should that be Emacs?) are available on Windows as well. (Maybe not used that often.) While they're "available" for windows, windows users don't use them. Only people who transcend the OS label because they u

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-26 Thread Michiel Kamermans
This touches on a recent thread on a primer for XeLaTeX, which ended in http://wiki.xelatex.org/ (which I did not forget about to everyone who might suspect I have, conferences and moving house are currently robbing me of all my spare time) - Mike "Pomax" Kamermans nihongoresources.com -

Re: [XeTeX] font licenses and embedding

2010-09-24 Thread Michiel Kamermans
font forge: font information, OS/2 table - Mike "Pomax" Kamermans nihongoresources.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] buggy hyphenation with fontspec-2.1

2010-09-21 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 9/21/2010 12:45 PM, Pablo Rodríguez wrote: Hi there, checking whether a clash between fontspec and babel in LuaLaTeX (already reported at http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/luatex/2010-August/001895.html), I have just discovered new issues with this document: \documentclass{book} \usepackage{f

Re: [XeTeX] If font under fontspec

2010-09-21 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 9/21/2010 7:28 AM, Gareth Hughes wrote: The Syriac font Estrangelo Edessa leaves noticeable white space before the letter ܓ when it is preceded by a non-joining letter. It seems this is a carry over from old metal type. Some people see it as a feature rather than a bug, but I wanted to provi

Re: [XeTeX] If font under fontspec

2010-09-21 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Thanks for this, Will. This is exactly the kind of thing I wanted. I could use it to create a usable command that will 'fix' all subsequent instances of the font. If it's designed as a command for an end user, then the user can specify the exact set options. I think that this might be easier th

Re: [XeTeX] Separate fonts for Latin and Greek with fontspec?

2010-09-17 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 9/17/2010 3:36 AM, BPJ wrote: 1. What about a command for defining arbitrary ranges? This would be useful if one mucks around in different subblocks of the PUAs, particularly. Something like: \setTransitionRange{}{}{}{} And why not. It's easy enough to define, I'll stick it in the ne

[XeTeX] \...@nameuse question

2010-09-17 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi all, I'm cleaning up my ucharclasses package, and wanted to move from ifthen/forloop to plain TeX. The Original code was: \newcounter{iclass} % general transition rule \newcomman...@transition}[3]{\xetexinterchartoks #1 #2=#3} %Use: \setUTransitions{when entering this block}{when leavin

Re: [XeTeX] Separate fonts for Latin and Greek with fontspec?

2010-09-17 Thread Michiel Kamermans
David, OK - major progress in that I have it all working for the single character α! But do I /really/ have to go through all 50 odd characters an assign them to my \greekclass individually? Or is there some sort of automation mechanism? There are ways to automate the process, but I pretty m

Re: [XeTeX] Separate fonts for Latin and Greek with fontspec?

2010-09-16 Thread Michiel Kamermans
David, Gareth, Sorry if I missed this in the manual, but is it possible to use fontspec to map most unicode characters to one font, and some to another? In particular, my intended use is that I prefer the Latin characters in Adobe Garamond Pro to those in Myriad Pro, but the latter has Greek sup

Re: [XeTeX] PDF minor version

2010-09-16 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Heiko, for debugging purposes I need a lower PDF minor version number for the PDF file generated by XeTeX. Wait, do you just need a lower version number, or a PDF built to a lower version specification? Because the first is a job for GhostScript, not for the output driver. However, if y

Re: [XeTeX] Newbie Question: Accessing Glyph

2010-09-13 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 9/13/2010 8:46 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Much as I sympathise with, and understand, this Unicode-oriented approach, it seems to me that in real life, and in the absence of a universal keyboard which can conveniently and easily be used to enter the myriad human languages tha

Re: [XeTeX] warning from polyglossia

2010-09-13 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 9/13/2010 7:47 AM, Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote: OK --- so we don't need to invent a new language! I'm fairly certain Philip was joking, given that the date of the directive was well in the future, and the EU can't legally force programs that aren't for exclusively European use to follow its

Re: [XeTeX] Newbie Question: Accessing Glyph

2010-09-13 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi Marc, I'm trying to use an opentype "Adobe Garamond Premier Pro" and it works mostly fine, except that there are some problems: o I'd like to know how to access certain glyphs in the font files. For example, the euro symbol, the long es, and ornamental symbols. When switching from La

Re: [XeTeX] Fontspec: Historic not Historical Ligatures?

2010-09-12 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 9/12/2010 6:47 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: I know my English is severely suffering, but "historic ligatures" don't sound like a proper phrase, so I'm not sure what was the motivate behind the change. It's a subtle difference, "historical" simple referring to "something from the past", while

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation initiative - a website

2010-09-12 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi David, Here's one more suggestion: Would it be useful to designate some parts of the text as less important for beginners? For instance, some people might want to know more about the history of TeX and the relations among the various versions, while others might get impatient and just wa

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation initiative - a website

2010-09-12 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi Will, good points, I added them as a "policy" bit on the wiki page. Good to hear xltxtra has become obsolete, that's one less thing that needs to be explained =) - Mike "Pomax" Kamermans nihongoresources.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and L

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation initiative - a website

2010-09-12 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi all, I've put up a wiki with a highly tentative structure on http://wiki.xelatex.org/doku.php - sadly xetex.org is taken by some domain hiking service so there's no obvious xetex.org counterpart to be had... Anyway, it's the normal wiki deal, although you need to register an account to e

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation "initiative"

2010-09-12 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi philipp, I don't use ConTeXt myself that much, largely because of the lack of documentation and my own laziness. Unfortunately many of the documents are outdated and cover the "old" ConTeXt Mk II instead of Mk IV. Also there is peer pressure: Someone willing to use ConTeXt is largely on hi

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation "initiative"

2010-09-11 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi Philipp, and I personally jumped straight into xelatex because the internet told me it was the only unicode-aware flavour of TeX That is not correct, LuaTeX is Unicode-based as well. Sure, but LuaTeX wasn't around five years ago. To make matters worse, it only publically availab

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation "initiative"

2010-09-10 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 9/10/2010 9:18 AM, Tobias Schoel wrote: Hello everybody, some remarks from a happily xelatex-using maths and physics teacher who has just finished university: When someone arrives at xelatex he has usually gone some way through the tex/latex world already. (Mostly latex, I think.) You can

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation "initiative"

2010-09-10 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi John, fair point, plain XeTeX should not be left out. - Mike "Pomax" Kamermans nihongoresources.com -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation "initiative"

2010-09-10 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 9/9/2010 9:09 PM, Wilfred van Rooijen wrote: OK, how about the following table of contents for a xelatex companion: - all material is based on the use of xelatex in combination with freely available high quality fonts, such as Latin Modern and TeX Gyre. The added finesses of Zapfino accessi

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation "initiative"

2010-09-08 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi Philip, But it couldn't, because when LaTeX first became mainstream (LaTeX 2.09), there was no such series of books, there was (just) Leslie Lamport's /LATEX: a Document Preparation System : User's Guide and Reference Manual/, which even today sells for GBP 20-00 on Amazon. So someone had

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation "initiative"

2010-09-08 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi Michel, Hello, as stated at the very beginning and the preface of the XeTeX Companion, I consider myself merely as a "maintainer" of that document. It was always my intention to make and keep this document freely available to all, at the same time inviting all those who would like to contr

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation "initiative"

2010-09-08 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi Philip, I think you will find that the charge for the Companions (rather like the charge for the TeXbook itself) goes to offset the expenses of those developing LaTeX (resp. TeX) rather than lining anyone' pocket ... I never claimed it lined anyone's pockets, or that charging money for it

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation "initiative"

2010-09-08 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 9/7/2010 9:23 PM, Wilfred van Rooijen wrote: It seems that there have been no replies to the list about Michiel's proposal to make a combined xe(la)tex reference manual and user manual. Personally I would be willing to contribute, but I am not an expert on xetex, rather a casual user with pe

Re: [XeTeX] command line options for xelatex?

2010-09-05 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi Alan, Ahh, thanks. I didn't try that. It would be useful, however, to have a man page, since that's the normal way such information is found, I think. Usually you resort to a man page when the --help readout doesn't actually tell you anything (like only listing the possible flags withou

Re: [XeTeX] XeTex and Japanese kunten and warichū

2010-09-05 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 9/4/2010 8:14 PM, Tak Yato (ZR) wrote: > The author of sfkanbun package, Shinsaku Fujita, shows some samples > of kunten typesetting on his web site. > http://homepage3.nifty.com/xymtex/fujitas/kanbun/kanbunex.html > You can view more samples by clicking the links to JPG images. > Much like

Re: [XeTeX] XeTex and Japanese kunten and warichū

2010-09-04 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi Jiang, CJKfntef works with XeCJK. I was hoping to get underdotting to work without having to load xeCJK, in the same way that ruby works as its own package... xeCJK hijacks the to/from CJK interchar rules, so you can no longer issue normal fontspec instructions. When the parser goes from

Re: [XeTeX] XeTex and Japanese kunten and warichū

2010-09-03 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi Clemente et all, it took a bit of stabbing, but this should hold you over for the warichuu with preservation of furigana in vertical mode. However, this still leaves the matter of kunten... I tried to use the CJK and CJKfntef packages, which is supposed to give the \CJKunderdot, \CJKunderli

Re: [XeTeX] XeTex and Japanese kunten and warichū

2010-09-03 Thread Michiel Kamermans
For vertical text and warichu, you can use the gezhu [1] package by Yin Dian. I'm not sure about kunten though. - Jiang [1]http://code.google.com/p/gezhu/ Hmm, interesting. Sadly, gezhu doesn't behave that well for me, giving oddly sized text in the 'warichuu'/gezhu sections. Perhaps Wer

[XeTeX] XeTeX documentation "initiative"

2010-09-01 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi all, based on some of the talks in the documentation thread, I was wondering if I could suggest a documentation initiative. Michel Goosens had a stab at chronicling XeTex it in 1996 with his "The XeTeX Companion" (which has seen a few updates since, the last in January 2010) and Apostolos

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation? (from "Checking if a font exists")

2010-09-01 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Heiko, \XeTeXpdffile [page ] [crop|media|bleed|trim|art] [scaled|xscaled|yscaled |width|height |rotated]* The first two options are specific for PDF files (\XeTeXpdffile), thus the syntax of \XeTeXpicfile is \XeTeXpicfile [scaled|xscaled|yscaled |width|height |rotated]*

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation? (from "Checking if a font exists")

2010-08-31 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi Wilfred, I know the missing-manual problem all too well (I work at a research lab)... I agree that it would be better if a developer (or developing team) releases a proper manual. But indeed the open source model is such that __anybody__ can write a manual if you really want to. And I f

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation? (from "Checking if a font exists")

2010-08-30 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi Khaled, "texdoc xetex" only generates a man page style html file for the xetex command line program when I run it. I was more enquiring about the existence of normal application documentation. I.e., which commands are supported by XeTeX, how do you do certain things in XeTeX, which things

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation? (from "Checking if a font exists")

2010-08-30 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 8/30/2010 6:23 AM, Avi Wollman wrote: you know what happens when you ask questions like the in the opensouce community ? you get answers like: When you finish making one please send us all a copy. Yeah, thanks... slightly counter-productive answer, potentially preventing others from adding

[XeTeX] XeTeX documentation? (from "Checking if a font exists")

2010-08-30 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Jonathan, I'm surprised no-one has suggested the straightforward, pure-xetex approach: something along these lines (untested). [snip] Nice... I didn't know there was a \nullfont command for checking against. That does bring up a question though: is there a comprehensive pdf document or

Re: [XeTeX] Checking if a font exists

2010-08-29 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi Alan, Is there a way to check whether a font is present in a user's system? I need to generate a document with Myriad Pro if it exists, Arial otherwise, and if neither, exit with an error. Myriad Pro is nothing like Arial, though... but just to make your life worse: thought about version

Re: [XeTeX] embedding fonts

2010-08-28 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 8/28/2010 7:03 AM, hh-bra...@bol.com.br wrote: It is the wish of the publisher that pdf-documents have their fonts embedded and not only as a subset. This of course shows that they do not understand TeX (where a small error does only need one extra run probably). The publisher can wish

Re: [XeTeX] xe(la)tex to epub?

2010-08-17 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Khaled, Ross, As I wrote above, if it is about the structural formating, then it does not worth the trouble, it can be achieved with almost every tool and document format out there (even office suits can build structured documents). It is visual, the precise output, where TeX excels which is tot

Re: [XeTeX] xe(la)tex to epub?

2010-08-17 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Khaled, AFAIK, epup is just a subset of xhtml with a subset of css2, so IMO not a kind of output format that is very well suited for TeX (well, I hardly consider html an output format at all, the output is what the browser renders out of it). True, but CSS uses a box model too, so it sho

Re: [XeTeX] xe(la)tex to epub?

2010-08-16 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi Rob, I'm not sure if there is a driver which works directly with xelatex, but you might want to take a look at LaTeXML or TeX4ht. Both of these tools allow you to create xhtml. If you use a custom style sheet, you can even specify extremely strict compliance. Converting from XHTML to ep

[XeTeX] xe(la)tex to epub?

2010-08-16 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi all, just wondering: is there an output driver that will generate an epub rather than pdf file from xe(la)tex source? I know it's less precise than pdf files in terms of boxing, but epub demand is high, and it allows reflowing much more naturally than pdf making it a far more suitable form

[XeTeX] xe(la)tex to epub?

2010-08-16 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi all, just wondering: is there an output driver that will generate an epub rather than pdf file from xe(la)tex source? I know it's less precise than pdf files in terms of boxing, but epub demand is high, and it allows reflowing much more naturally than pdf making it a far more suitable form

Re: [XeTeX] Combined sub- and superscript

2010-08-07 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Since this has to do with the box alignment of sub/super script, I'm fairly certain this has nothing to do with fontspec at all. Instead, let's just write our own macro for isotopes: \documentclass{minimal} \usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont{Linux Libertine O} % align by adding phantom text an

Re: [XeTeX] ** ERROR ** sfnt: Freetype failure...

2010-07-28 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 7/28/2010 6:14 AM, tala...@fastmail.fm wrote: I have just run the two problematic files through a piece of Mac software called "textsoap", which "cleans up" the text. Apparently, there were some hidden, offending glyphs or characters that were causing the problem. The file now compiles fine

Re: [XeTeX] Japanese, Chinese, Korean support for Polyglossia

2010-07-23 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi Wilfred, The Korean hangul script is already phonetic, so it does not need ruby. Kanji are used in Korea, but mostly to indicate place names and family names. Yeah, hence phonetic guide text (so, text that accompanies chinese characters), not just phonetic text. You can still stick ha

Re: [XeTeX] Japanese, Chinese, Korean support for Polyglossia

2010-07-23 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 7/23/2010 1:02 PM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Just one comment, since we seem to be converging on agreement :-) Gerrit wrote: I don’t think that there is Ruby used in academic writings in Taiwan. It all depends what you mean by "academic" : Ruby is most certainly used in text

Re: [XeTeX] Japanese, Chinese, Korean support for Polyglossia

2010-07-23 Thread Michiel Kamermans
This kind of sounds like a job for a massively huge tome of knowledge: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514471 (CJKV Information Processing, Second Edition) - Mike -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman

Re: [XeTeX] Japanese, Chinese, Korean support for Polyglossia

2010-07-23 Thread Michiel Kamermans
David, Ruby is already enabled (if you are using a font that supports it). See the fontspec package documentation. Fontspec also allows you to select a number of other options relevant to CJK typesetting -- take a look. (It doesn't address all the issues you raise, though.) The ruby openty

Re: [XeTeX] [OT] Free fonts for fontspec examples?

2010-07-15 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 7/15/2010 4:04 AM, Ryo IGARASHI wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, Will, Just to comment on 3., only for Japanese font stuff. 2010/7/12 Will Robertson: 3. All of my Japanese examples use the Hiragino fonts distributed with Mac OS X; are there any free alternati

Re: [XeTeX] combining characters in isolation

2010-07-12 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Mike, If I do \newfontfamily\bengalifont[]{Bangla} it works fine; I don't get the dashed circle. In fact the space character doesn't even have to be inside the scope of the script. But if I do \newfontfamily\bengalifont[Script=Bengali]{Bangla} I get the dashed circle. So apparently se

Re: [XeTeX] xelatex crashes with a large document (TL2010)

2010-06-24 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 6/24/2010 9:07 AM, Pablo Rodríguez wrote: Hi there, I have installed TL 2010 from TUG and XeLaTeX crashes with rather large documents (books not written by me). It crashes also with --no-pdf option activated. I'm afraid that I cannot provide a minimal sample, I cannot make the texts avai

Re: [XeTeX] Font Browser

2010-06-18 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi Gerrit, I wonder, if you maybe know about a font browser for Windows which will show me the Opentype tables? I know that I can actually use the Opentype features in Xetex, but my problem is that I don’t always know, which features the font actually possesses. So I thought about a font bro

Re: [XeTeX] embedding fonts

2010-06-04 Thread Michiel Kamermans
hh, Of course I'm aware that some fonts are available at most as subsets as they are protected by the owners. But anyway, there should be an option to embed the full font if possible. Also the standard fonts (e.g. Helvetica) should be embedded, bacause there are just too many version around.

Re: [XeTeX] embedding fonts

2010-06-03 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 6/3/2010 8:37 AM, hh-bra...@bol.com.br wrote: Is there a way to ensure that adobe distiller or acrobat pro embed the full fonts in the pdf-document produced with xelatex. Or can you name any program which can do that. The printing houses insist on full fonts because that way they can (someti

Re: [XeTeX] unicode-math testing

2010-05-28 Thread Michiel Kamermans
At the very least there should be some warning if different versions of fonts are being used at different stages, but I suppose this could get very noisy with the common practice of having at least 3 very different fonts all claiming to be Helvetica-Italic, so perhaps it needs to be added to som

Re: [XeTeX] unicode-math testing

2010-05-27 Thread Michiel Kamermans
I do not get this bug when doing a compile on windows server 2008, 32 bit version. windows: Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002] xelatex: This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.1 (MiKTeX 2.8) Possibly very silly question: did you try this after making sure no fonts were cached anywhere? =

Re: [XeTeX] word cloud or tag cloud in XeLaTeX

2010-05-24 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 5/23/2010 9:38 AM, Juan Francisco Fraile Vicente wrote: Thanks, Mike! I am asking about both of the methods. The first could be the better, perhaps. But there is this web: http://www.tocloud.com/javascript_cloud_generator.html that gives the html code. I mean also more complex clouds , like

Re: [XeTeX] word cloud or tag cloud in XeLaTeX

2010-05-23 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 5/22/2010 8:52 AM, Juan Francisco Fraile Vicente wrote: I haven't found info about this issue. How could be word-clouds done (as web tag-clouds) in LaTeX or XeTeX? I think they could be done managing tabular, font sizes or other options, but my question is if there's a package to do these we

Re: [XeTeX] Vertical Japanese in memoir with fontspec

2010-05-07 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Pander, > I use the XeTeX interchar solution for that in my book. I use Palatino Linotype as main font, but it lacks a lot of extended latin charact

Re: [XeTeX] Vertical Japanese in memoir with fontspec

2010-05-07 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Vafa, I almost know nothing about vertical typesetting but can not you do vertical typesetting by some rotation? Yes and no. For the normal syllabic scripts and chinese characters, you can. However, there are also half-height OR half-width characters, depending on the writing direction. In h

Re: [XeTeX] Vertical Japanese in memoir with fontspec

2010-05-07 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi Pander, can you attach that .tex to a reply, since the page you linked to has inserted delicious and utterly useless linebreaks =) I've done Japanese vertical typesetting using XeLaTeX and Fontspce (although I ditched Memoir at some point because it wasn't playing nice enough with glossar

Re: [XeTeX] Em-dash

2010-05-04 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 5/4/2010 1:11 AM, Wilfred van Rooijen wrote: Hi all, This seems to be precisely the issue. Xetex can read and understand all unicode characters, but at this time, the only way to communicate with the computer is through the keyboard and the mouse. Thus, there will always be issues with "sp

Re: [XeTeX] Diacritics

2010-05-03 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 5/3/2010 4:02 AM, José Carlos Santos wrote: Then I will have to work without the xunicode and xltxtra packages. I hope that that will not create new problems. You could, but what's stopping you from using the actual letter ń? Incidentally, you only have to load the xltxtra package, not xltx

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

2010-05-03 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 5/3/2010 2:00 AM, John Was wrote: Excellent - does this mean that custom kerning from within XeTeX is moving up the 'to-do' list? It seems to me to be in the same general area (aesthetically though perhaps not technically): one wants to fine-tune the spacing behaviour of specific chara

Re: [XeTeX] Scaling graphics

2010-05-01 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Ulrike, Well most of the graphics on my pc have either no dpi entry or 72, but I found one with 300dpi and this too is larger (x4) when used with xelatex. (it is not a graphic I can share so we can't test if it works for you too). Odd... I did a minmal example with the jpg that Jose linked to,

Re: [XeTeX] Scaling graphics

2010-04-30 Thread Michiel Kamermans
No, I can reproduce your problem with miktex 2.7 too. Your picture is 1886 pixel wide and declares its resolution to be 600 dpi. This gives a "natural" width of 8cm and this width you get with pdflatex. But xetex seems not to take the resolution into account but use a resolution of 72 dpi. Thi

Re: [XeTeX] Em-dash

2010-04-30 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 4/30/2010 7:29 AM, Alan Munn wrote: On Apr 30, 2010, at 10:16 AM, José Carlos Santos wrote: Hi all (yes, it's me again!): If I compile this file: \documentclass{article} \pagestyle{empty} \usepackage{fontspec} \usepackage{xunicode} \usepackage{xltxtra} \begin{document} --- \end{document}

Re: [XeTeX] Table of contents

2010-04-30 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 4/30/2010 1:56 AM, José Carlos Santos wrote: Since no sophisticated solution appeared (or occurred to me), I shall do that. But I think it is a flaw. You don't need a sophisticated solution when the simple one is the only correct one. In the old days we had to worry about which character se

Re: [XeTeX] Table of contents

2010-04-29 Thread Michiel Kamermans
As you may guess from its contents, the encoding that I am using is cp1252. If I compile this file, then, at the table of contents I get "Général de Gaulle", instead of "Général de Gaulle". I can eliminate this by commenting the line \XeTeXdefaultencoding "cp1252" but I want to have it the

Re: [XeTeX] accented character ṛ within \section {ṛ}

2010-04-26 Thread Michiel Kamermans
On 4/26/2010 12:41 PM, Ross Moore wrote: Hi Herb, Just curious... what happens when you try to do search within or a copy from a pdf which has such combined characters? PDF has the /ActualText(...) replacement tagging feature. This allows you to capture a sequence of content characters and d

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