Re: [XeTeX] Strange issue with tanwin, arabxetex

2015-08-02 Thread Nathan Sidoli
Dear François, Akira, and others, Thanks for taking the time with this. Yes, I have now accepted that the current behavior is the expected behavior and it is now what I get with both TL2014 and TL2015. I am not sure why I was getting the other behavior before I upgraded, but it is now irrepro

Re: [XeTeX] Strange issue with tanwin, arabxetex

2015-07-30 Thread Nathan Sidoli
On 7/29/15 8:28 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote: On Jul 29, 2015, at 2:19 AM, Nathan Camillo Sidoli wrote: Hello Everyone, Over the weekend I updated both my system (to Mac OS 10.10), and TeXlive (to 2015). Now I have an issue with tanwin for indefinite accusatives in ArabXeTeX. Here is a minimal

Re: [XeTeX] Strange issue with tanwin, arabxetex

2015-07-30 Thread Nathan Sidoli
Dear François, Thanks for looking into this. I have been fiddling with it a bit more and I noticed that toggling the options between voc and novoc has an effect on this. Here is a minimal example: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[novoc]{arabxetex}% toggle with voc %\oldtanwin \newfontfam

Re: [XeTeX] fonts and diacritics

2015-06-13 Thread Nathan Sidoli
Dear Dominik, Do you have any opinion on Junicode or Latin Modern for transliteration from Indic languages? Best, Nathan On 6/13/15 6:21 PM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote: Dear Juergen, Nice to see you here (I just read your 2011 I. Taurinensia paper last night!). Yes, you are right, some fon

Re: [XeTeX] difficulty with ancient greek diacriticals in XeTeX with Gentium Plus

2013-07-18 Thread Nathan Sidoli
This is a hack, but if you have a lot of that text it may help you out. If you add the following to your preamble: \XeTeXinputnormalization=1 \newenvironment{asciigreek} {\catcode`\~=12 \G \addfontfeature{Mapping=asciitogreek}} {} and put the attached file (asckiitogreek.map) in your path

Re: [XeTeX] Local changes to mathmode digits

2013-01-19 Thread Nathan Sidoli
Thank you. That worked very nicely. On 13/01/13 21:29, David Carlisle wrote: On 12 January 2013 15:58, Nathan Camillo Sidoli wrote: Is there anyway to change the math mode digits for only certain parts of a text? I have some math in Arabic text in a largely English document. I would like to

Re: [XeTeX] Help with Yiddish and ledmac/ledpar

2012-09-25 Thread Nathan Sidoli
I've never dealt with Yiddish, but I've worked with a bit of edited Hebrew, so this response may be of some use. If you are using Xe(La)TeX, then you will have to use the arabxetex package, if you want to do ASCII input. But, as far as I know, arabxetex does not support Hebrew characters. Yo

Re: [XeTeX] Polyglossia and ArabXeTeX

2012-08-22 Thread Nathan Sidoli
wishes, Adam On Aug 18, 2012, at 11:02 PM, Nathan Sidoli wrote: Is it possible to use polyglossia with arabxetex? It seems that both of them define the command \aemph. Since they both define it in the same way, it doesn't really matter, but it would be nice if there were no error me

[XeTeX] Polyglossia and ArabXeTeX

2012-08-18 Thread Nathan Sidoli
Is it possible to use polyglossia with arabxetex? It seems that both of them define the command \aemph. Since they both define it in the same way, it doesn't really matter, but it would be nice if there were no error message. Maybe each of them could be made to check if the command is already d

[XeTeX] Beamer and xelatex (or rather fontspec)

2012-06-09 Thread Nathan Sidoli
It seems like fontspec and beamer don't play well together. When I used fontspec in a beamer document, various things behave strangely, like quotes and dashes. Does anyone know why this is happening, or if there is some way to resolve it. I have included a minimal example, below. Any ideas

Re: [XeTeX] A special character

2012-04-08 Thread Nathan Sidoli
Thanks, That did it. Best, Nathan On 12/04/08 19:40, Juan Acevedo wrote: Nathan, You can do \char"10162 which just worked for me using Brill Roman. You need to make sure the character is present in the font and in the right code point. If there is a font which you are sure includes the char

[XeTeX] A special character

2012-04-08 Thread Nathan Sidoli
Hello all, I am trying to put a rare character into some text. It is the old Greek 10, [10], which exists in most Greek fonts and in the one that I am using (Gentium Plus). http://kreativekorp.startlogic.com/charset/unicode.php?char=10162 The unicode point is U+10162. When I copy-and-paste

Re: [XeTeX] arabic

2012-04-01 Thread Nathan Sidoli
This works for me: -- \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \usepackage[novoc,fdf2noalif]{arabxetex} % \newfontfamily\arabicfont[Script=Arabic,Scale=1.4,WordSpace=2]{Amiri} % Scheherazade \newcommand{\A}{\textarabic} % Tag for all Arabic text \begin{document} \begin

Re: [XeTeX] Critical edition with translation on facing pages

2012-02-15 Thread Nathan Sidoli
y critical edition differently now that I have used ledpar. Chris On 08/02/12 19:03, PETER WILSON wrote: -Original Message----- From: Nathan Sidoli Sent: Feb 8, 2012 12:52 PM To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms Subject: [XeTeX] Critical edition with translation on facing

[XeTeX] Critical edition with translation on facing pages

2012-02-08 Thread Nathan Sidoli
I'm wondering if anyone has any experience making a critical edition, with apparatus with a translation on facing pages using XeTeX, LaTeX, etc. I've seen that there a number of packages for doing parallel columns, etc., but they don't seen to produce good results for longer work. If anyone ha

[XeTeX] Incomplete .aux file

2012-01-01 Thread nathan . sidoli
I don't thing this is a Xe(La)Tex specific problem, but I thought I would ask this question here, since this is the main list I subscribe to. I'm having an issue with the .aux file being incomplete in two different files I am working with. The files are part of an edited book and these ar

Re: [XeTeX] specifying two fonts

2011-12-01 Thread Nathan Sidoli
There are various ways you can do this. If I were doing it, I would probably put something like the following in the preamble: \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{MainFont} \newfontfamily{\G}[Scale=1]{GreekFont}% \newfontfamily{\C}[Scale=1]{ChineseFont}% And then in the text I would put all Greek

[XeTeX] asciitogreek.map

2011-10-27 Thread Nathan Sidoli
In case anyone is using the asciitogreek.map file that is available in various places, the following mappings should be added: ; '< + letter U+0027 U+003C U+0041 <> U+1F0D; A U+0027 U+003C U+0061 <> U+1F05; a U+0027 U+003C U+0045 <> U+1F1D; E U+0027 U+003C U+0065 <> U+1F15; e U+0027 U+003C U+004

Re: [XeTeX] ascii to unicode map for Hebrew

2011-10-19 Thread Nathan Sidoli
Yes, they have a mapping for their legacy Hebrew fonts, but I was hoping to find a mapping for the ascii input used by hebtex, or arabtex. I am not a scholar of Hebrew, so I would not be the right person to write such a map file. Nathan On 11/10/18 5:48, Andy Lin wrote: An easy way is to

Re: [XeTeX] ascii to unicode map for Hebrew

2011-10-16 Thread Nathan Sidoli
(Sorry about the confusion not posting directly.) I am editing a book of collected papers from a number of different authors, and I have a paper that is originally in LaTeX with some Hebrew, which is input in ascii using the hebtex package. Is there a map for converting ascii to unicode for H

[XeTeX] footnotes and ArabXeTeX

2011-10-05 Thread Nathan Sidoli
Here is one for Vafa in your new capacity as maintainer of ArabXeTeX. Thanks for taking over this package! (I sent this to François some time ago, but I don't think anything has been done about it.) In certain environments, there is some problem with the input which is controlled by ascii 'ope

Re: [XeTeX] Modification of xepersian-mathsdigitspec and parsidigits

2011-09-28 Thread Nathan Sidoli
Thanks. I thought there was probably a simple way of doing this. On 11/09/28 15:42, VAFA KHALIGHI wrote: See attached. Without modifying my package. On 28/09/2011, at 4:34 PM, nathan.sid...@utoronto.ca wrote: How do I modify the behavior of xepersian-mathsdigitspec and parsidigits so that

Re: [XeTeX] Modification of xepersian-mathsdigitspec and parsidigits

2011-09-28 Thread nathan . sidoli
Great! I knew there must have been a simply way. Thanks. Quoting VAFA KHALIGHI : See attached. Without modifying my package. -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

[XeTeX] Modification of xepersian-mathsdigitspec and parsidigits

2011-09-27 Thread nathan . sidoli
How do I modify the behavior of xepersian-mathsdigitspec and parsidigits so that the characters for 4, 5, and 6 correspond to the Arabic numerals (U+6064,U+6065,U+6066), as opposed to Persian numerals (U+60F4,U+60F5,U+60F6)? I found a parsidigits.map file online (by Vafa), which has the map

Re: [XeTeX] Eastern Arabic numerals in math environment

2011-09-23 Thread Nathan Sidoli
Thanks, that works nicely. On 11/09/23 17:52, VAFA KHALIGHI wrote: Yes, you can. You can modify xepersian-mathsdigitspec to suit your needs. bidi has nothing to do with font. On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Nathan Sidoli mailto:nathan.sid...@utoronto.ca>> wrote: Is is possible

[XeTeX] Eastern Arabic numerals in math environment

2011-09-23 Thread Nathan Sidoli
Is is possible to use Eastern Arabic numerals inside a math environment, say inside \frac{}{} (such as \frac{٥}{٢})? When I try this with unicode input, I get no errors, but blank output. When I enter a RL environment within \frac, using bidi, I get errors. (This must have something to do with

Re: [XeTeX] Compatibility issues with ednotes and pstricks or TikZ

2011-09-22 Thread Nathan Sidoli
Yes, of course you are right. However, many of the older LaTeX packages are not being developed very actively any more (or not at all in some cases) so it makes it difficult to decide what to use when one need the functionality of some of the older packages but also wants to work with unicode,

Re: [XeTeX] Compatibility issues with ednotes and pstricks or TikZ

2011-09-21 Thread Nathan Sidoli
as to do with pstricks. When I comment out pstricks, the line numbers appear just fine, but when pstricks is loaded, they are moved in against the side of the text. On 11/09/22 14:27, VAFA KHALIGHI wrote: Put it before \begin{document}, in addition you need to put \rightlinenumbers afte

Re: [XeTeX] Compatibility issues with ednotes and pstricks or TikZ

2011-09-21 Thread Nathan Sidoli
: \makeatletter \@ifpackageloaded{color}{% \def\makeLineNumberRight{% \linenumberfont\hskip-\linenumbersep\hskip-\columnwidth \hb@xt@\linenumberwidth{\hss\LineNumber}\hss}}{} \makeatother If you are curious, why this happens, then I can explain. On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 1:24 AM, Nathan Sidoli

Re: [XeTeX] Compatibility issues with ednotes and pstricks or TikZ

2011-09-21 Thread Nathan Sidoli
not loaded at all? maybe endnotes does not behave well with pstricks. On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Nathan Sidoli mailto:nathan.sid...@utoronto.ca>> wrote: I have tried loading them in every possible order, but as soon as I load pstricks the marginal numbers disappear. O

Re: [XeTeX] Compatibility issues with ednotes and pstricks or TikZ

2011-09-21 Thread Nathan Sidoli
> b) XeTeX in RTL mode, with \special has bugs and tikz and pstricks both uses > \special so we have no other choice but putting pspicture and tikzpicture > inside LTR mode. > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Nathan Sidoli mailto:nathan.sid...@utoro

[XeTeX] Compatibility issues with ednotes and pstricks or TikZ

2011-09-21 Thread Nathan Sidoli
I realize this is not strictly speaking a XeTeX issue, but I am typesetting a critical edition of an Arabic text using XeLaTeX with the ednotes package and I want to be able to make the diagrams for the text using either pstricks or TikZ so that the Arabic fonts can be changed in the text and d

Re: [XeTeX] amsrefs and xeCJK don't play nice together

2011-07-18 Thread Nathan Sidoli
If the bulk of your document is in Japanese, XeCJK is not an ideal option, because the formatting will not be nice. (Actually, CJK is a strange notion, and clearly indicates that these packages are meant to be used for work in which there are just some small quotations of one of these languages

Re: [XeTeX] Diacritic marks in various fonts

2011-06-23 Thread Nathan Sidoli
Thanks to everyone that responded. It does seem that the error message is unrelated (since I don't get it with the minimal example, below), however, the issue with Junicode (and Times Translit) persists even with this minimal example: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfon

[XeTeX] Diacritic marks in various fonts

2011-06-23 Thread nathan . sidoli
I'm having some issues with the dot diacritic under m and n, \d{m} and \d{n} or ? and ?, with italicized typeface in some fonts, particularly Junicode. Whenever I use Junicode or Times Translit, I get blank spaces for these terms, and a warning message such as the following: LaTeX Font Wa

Re: [XeTeX] Package conflict

2011-06-11 Thread Nathan Sidoli
Thanks Andrew for dealing with this, and thanks to Ulrike for the quick fix. Best, Nathan On 11/06/11 21:51, Ulrike Fischer wrote: Am Sat, 11 Jun 2011 21:28:58 +0900 schrieb Nathan Camillo Sidoli: There seems to be a conflict with the loading order of packages mathspec and arabxetex, which b

[XeTeX] Package conflict

2011-06-11 Thread Nathan Sidoli
There seems to be a conflict with the loading order of packages mathspec and arabxetex, which both require amsmath. The mathspec package will ask for amsmath to be loaded first, but the arabxetex will load amsmath because it needs the \overline macro. The mathspec package must be loaded first

[XeTeX] Formatting issues involving bidi

2011-05-25 Thread nathan . sidoli
I recently upgraded from TeX Live 2009 to 2010, and I have noticed a number of strange formatting issues that can be traced to the bidi package. It is difficult to create a minimal example of some of these because they arise in documents that are quite long and developed, but I can descri