[XeTeX] XeTeX wish list ...

2023-08-14 Thread Philip Taylor (RHUoL)
I do not know whether there is such a thing, but if there is, may I add an entry ? Background: I have (XeTeX) code which adds bleed and crop marks (strictly speaking, bleed and trim marks) to an existing multipage PDF. The code is stored in a file called "Add bleed + cropmarks.tex". When

Re: [XeTeX] which TeX-based software

2018-05-01 Thread Philip Taylor (RHUoL)
Mojca Miklavec wrote: It is of course completely free and opensources, no licences (that is also true for nearly all TeX anyway). No licence ?  It will never get into TeX Live then :-) From https://tug.org/texlive/LICENSE.TL: LICENSING FOR NEW PACKAGES: Finally, we are often asked what

Re: [XeTeX] which TeX-based software

2018-04-27 Thread Philip Taylor (RHUoL)
Carrs wrote: Hi, a newbie question. I would like advice on which TeX-based software it would be best to learn in detail for my typesetting plans. So far, I have learned a little TeX and a little LaTeX, but not enough of either to

[XeTeX] Could Adobe Photoshop's "blending options" for text be supported in a future {Pdf|Xe}TeX variant

2018-04-04 Thread Philip Taylor (RHUoL)
I have been playing with Adobe Photoshop's "blending options" for text recently, adding a gold or metallic texture to otherwise plain text.  The results are visually very striking, and I therefore began to wonder whether similar functionality might one day be

Re: [XeTeX] Query : obtain font name when opening font by filename ?

2018-04-03 Thread Philip Taylor (RHUoL)
Just in case anyone found the earlier code interesting, here is an improved version that (a) does not miss  every second font (!) and (b) does its best to normalise font heights. % !TeX Program = XeTeX \magnification \magstep 4

[XeTeX] Query : obtain font name when opening font by filename ?

2018-04-03 Thread Philip Taylor (RHUoL)
Dear fellow XeTeX users -- The following short program iterates through a list of all system fonts (already indexed into D:\Fonts.txt) and displays a short sample text followed by the font filename.  I would prefer it if the font filename could be replaced by the

Re: [XeTeX] Xetex equiv to luatex's \directlua{}

2018-03-24 Thread Philip Taylor (RHUoL)
maxwell wrote: I'm just finishing up a project that involved typesetting text in several languages, while outputting an XML file that defined in X/Y coordinates the position and size of the bounding box surrounding each line of text in the

Re: [XeTeX] Stroking a TeX rule in XeTeX

2018-03-21 Thread Philip Taylor (RHUoL)
Many thanks, Zdeněk.  For the benefit of both posterity and non-CZ speakers, I append Google's translation of your article : ** Phil. Print outline of the font in PDF Zdenek Wagner The article shows the possibility of rendering the contour

[XeTeX] Stroking a TeX rule in XeTeX

2018-03-21 Thread Philip Taylor (RHUoL)
The following code applies a 3 pt blue stroke to red-filled glyphs, but has the undesirable side-effect of changing the colour of TeX rules to the stroke colour.  Is it possible, does anyone know, to control the stroke and fill colour of TeX rules (a) independently, and (b) orthogonally to

Re: [XeTeX] Devanagari ASCII to Unicode mapping

2018-02-22 Thread Philip Taylor (RHUoL)
Daniel Greenhoe wrote: I think the conclusion is that I was going about the problem the wrong way---that there is no one-to-one mapping between the Devanagari ASCII font and unicode font. Rather, it is many-to-one. Is the problem not, in fact, that there is not one "Devanagari ASCII font" but

Re: [XeTeX] "typeset by bidi" message

2018-01-27 Thread Philip Taylor (RHUoL)
Peter Wilson wrote: I think that the "Typeset by the bidi package" message is much too modest. It should read something along the lines "Typeset by the bidi package developed by Vafa Khalighi for over 12 years without any funding or donations." In fact I think that every class/package used