Re: [XeTeX] Landscape mode and papersize

2012-06-01 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Am Donnerstag, den 31. Mai 2012 um 23:55:51 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Peter Dyballa: > > I think it's necessary to set additionally \pdfpageheight and > \pdfpagewidth. Both xetex and xdvipdfmx have options to tell them > the paper size, (ISO) a4 for example. Thx! -- Orm -

[XeTeX] Landscape mode and papersize

2012-05-31 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, how do I manage to output to a page in landscape mode with plain tetex? Search engines suggested "\special{pagesize=a4:landscape}" but typesetting issued the warning "** WARNING ** Unparsed material at end of special ignored." and generated portrait mode. I tried with XeTeX, Version 3.14159

Re: [XeTeX] xetex can't find font

2012-04-01 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Thanks a lot, that solved it! For the record: I generated the binary fonts, put them at the proper place, edited the font names in the map files accordingly, ran updmap, updmap-sys and texhash and then it worked. Best, Orm Am Sonntag, den 01. April 2012 um 07:36:31 Uhr (+0900) schrieb Akira Kakut

Re: [XeTeX] xetex can't find font

2012-03-31 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Dear Khaled, Am Samstag, den 31. März 2012 um 18:51:20 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Khaled Hosny: > > I highly suspect this is a xdvipdfmx issue, since the engine wouldn't > need to real font at all. IIRC, old versions of (x)dvipdfmx had its own > map file, so it might be that updmap(-sys) failed to update

Re: [XeTeX] xetex can't find font

2012-03-31 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi Khaled, Am Samstag, den 31. März 2012 um 18:11:03 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Khaled Hosny: > can you attach a minimal document that fails for you, are > the font definition exactly the same when you try under different > engines? Document is attached. Below is the output of the different commands (te

Re: [XeTeX] xetex can't find font

2012-03-31 Thread Orm Finnendahl
Hi, thanks for the help. I wasn't aware of xetex's capabilities to use systemwide installed fonts. Including them like this works ootb (I already had these fonts installed): \font\rm="ScalaSans-Regular" at 14 pt \rm Hello World! There is one drawback though: I have generated all kinds of virtua

[XeTeX] xetex can't find font

2012-03-31 Thread Orm Finnendahl
995.2 (TeX Live 2009/Debian) kpathsea version 5.0.0 Copyright 2009 SIL International and Jonathan Kew. <...> Any help is greatly appreciated! Yours, Orm -- Prof. Orm Finnendahl Komposition Studio für elektron