Re: [XeTeX] accent circumflex with unicode-math

2010-11-22 Thread Philipp Stephani
- Ursprüngliche Mail Von: Tobias Schoel liesdieda...@googlemail.com An: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms xetex@tug.org Gesendet: Montag, den 22. November 2010, 7:18:19 Uhr Betreff: [XeTeX] accent circumflex with unicode-math The accents have different width. This

Re: [XeTeX] bug in fontspec?

2010-10-18 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 18.10.2010 um 19:21 schrieb Khaled Hosny: On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 07:00:24PM +0200, Pablo Rodríguez wrote: Hi Will, Khaled and others, as Ulrike Fischer has noticed (http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2010-October/018895.html), fontspec enters in a loop italics are defined as slanted:

Re: [XeTeX] Very nasty bug with accented greek capitals in some fonts (TL 2010)

2010-10-05 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 05.10.2010 um 11:59 schrieb Nikos Platis: Consider the following minimal file: --- \documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont{Candara} \begin{document} ά Ά έ Έ ή Ή ί Ί ϊ Ϊ ΐ ό Ό ύ Ύ ϋ Ϋ ΰ ώ Ώ \end{document} --- Using a fully updated

Re: [XeTeX] Problem changing default fonts

2010-10-03 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 03.10.2010 um 10:07 schrieb Peter Dyballa: Am 02.10.2010 um 17:02 schrieb Drébon: Now, I am just searching for a replacement police for helvet that support smallcaps (and to understand what was I intending to do with the problematic \renewcommand*\sfdefault{ugq}) This should

Re: [XeTeX] hyperref broken??

2010-10-03 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 03.10.2010 um 14:02 schrieb David Perry: Heiko, Thank you for the reply. On 10/3/2010 4:41 AM, Heiko Oberdiek wrote: This is correct. XeTeX is used to generate PDF, `hypertex' is a driver for DVI mode. You can easily omit the option, because XeTeX is automatically detected. If I

Re: [XeTeX] hyperref broken??

2010-10-03 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 03.10.2010 um 15:52 schrieb Will Robertson: (Sent quickly. Please excuse brevity.) On 03/10/2010, at 11:41 PM, Philipp Stephani st_phil...@yahoo.de wrote: Am 03.10.2010 um 14:02 schrieb David Perry: If I omit the option, or use 'xetex' in place of 'hypertex' or use

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-02 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 01.10.2010 um 08:25 schrieb Tobias Schoel: Hi, of course, any document has structure and formatting, even plain txt-files have. That's not the point. The point I made, and you wrote it yourself: - In TeX you explicitly state the structure/format. In TeX you cannot state the structure

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-02 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 01.10.2010 um 00:49 schrieb Elliott Roper: As far a documentation is concerned look at the LaTeX Companion for packages. ..and that's where I get a bit taken aback. The book arrives last Saturday. I head for the Index for the bits I really need. XeTeX - nada fontspec - zip Unicode -

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-02 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 01.10.2010 um 00:14 schrieb Peter Dyballa: Am 30.09.2010 um 00:42 schrieb Alan Munn: And I deal with a broad range of students at a major US research university. U.S. American students are not a gauge for Earth's youth. I didn't talk about American students. What I described was

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-02 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 30.09.2010 um 20:12 schrieb Elliott Roper: What I'm lacking is a set of beginner documents that ties all the TeX zoo together. Do I have to read source to find the definitive answer to which package has what package as a pre-requisite? Yes, and that won't change until LaTeX becomes a

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-02 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 30.09.2010 um 17:33 schrieb Axel Kielhorn: The attractiveness to using LaTeX to exchange documents (in the past, and to a large extent, even now) is that you can be sure that the source file can be read by your computer, even if you don't have the same fonts or language support (EOL and

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-02 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 30.09.2010 um 16:01 schrieb Keith J. Schultz: With Tex et al. the structure/formatting commands are in document verbatim. When using TeX et al. you are more aware of what you are doing I don't know if that is really true. It's relatively easy to find out the current style of a

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-10-02 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 02.10.2010 um 21:52 schrieb Paul Isambert: Le 02/10/2010 21:22, Alan Munn a écrit : On Oct 2, 2010, at 2:47 PM, Philipp Stephani wrote: Am 30.09.2010 um 09:36 schrieb Tobias Schoel: Hi, there are three kinds of people who should learn TeXCo: - those who absolutely need TeX

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-29 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 29.09.2010 um 21:26 schrieb Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd): Tobias Schoel wrote: I wouldn't recommend anything other than kile for linux users. for me it offers the fastest way of texing. I tried emacs when we got the task of learning and testing a bit of lisp in university,

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-28 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 28.09.2010 um 02:20 schrieb David J. Perry: As a relative newcomer to Xe(La)TeX, and proponent of Unicode and multilingual computing for 15+ years, I was very surprised by the lack of Unicode support in the TeX world. I think what lshort and other tutorials need is a very clear and

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-28 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 28.09.2010 um 21:16 schrieb Peter Dyballa: Am 28.09.2010 um 16:20 schrieb Tobias Schoel: Can we now come back to the beginning problem: Which way of creating unicode-encoded .tex-documents to propose in lshort? Using GNU Emacs 23.x – the Unicode Emacs (and any of its variants) – with

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-27 Thread Philipp Stephani
- Ursprüngliche Mail Von: Axel Kielhorn a.kielh...@web.de An: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms xetex@tug.org Gesendet: Montag, den 27. September 2010, 16:45:18 Uhr Betreff: Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort Am 26.09.2010 um 19:11 schrieb Michiel Kamermans:

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-27 Thread Philipp Stephani
- Ursprüngliche Mail Von: Axel Kielhorn a.kielh...@web.de An: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms xetex@tug.org Gesendet: Montag, den 27. September 2010, 16:46:00 Uhr Betreff: Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort Am 26.09.2010 um 18:10 schrieb Peter Dyballa: Am

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-26 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 26.09.2010 um 06:13 schrieb David Perry: Some editors, _mainly on Linux,_ support digraphs, two letters that are combined into one [not on] character. The compose function is hardly ever used on OS X or Windows; He doesn't refer to the Compose key, but to editor support, which is

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-26 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 26.09.2010 um 15:56 schrieb Axel Kielhorn: Is the compose feature you mention the same as dead keys? No. Compose is a key available only from the X Window System. After hitting Compose (it is not a modifier key), you can enter a known key sequence to get a non-ASCII character; e.g.,

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-26 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 26.09.2010 um 15:56 schrieb Axel Kielhorn: Some operating systems or application offer input systems or input methods which allow to enter non-standard characters. XeTeX also supports UTF-16 encodings. \XeTeXdefaultencoding{CharsetName} and \XeTeXinputencoding{CharsetName} can set many

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-26 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 26.09.2010 um 16:44 schrieb David Perry: On a Mac I can type \texttt{option-u u} to get an ü Mac OS has the best systemwide support for non-English characters, and has for a long time. Windows provides only a very awkward ALT key method that requires typing decimal or hex numbers. This

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

2010-09-26 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 27.09.2010 um 01:16 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: Abstract: lshort needs a chapter/section about Unicode on its own. From what I experience here, a lot of TeX users are so brain-washed to use \v{c} and alike Well: this is the official way to enter the character č, as described in lshort.pdf, p.

Re: [XeTeX] wspr's realscripts updated xelatex templates

2010-09-14 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 14.09.2010 um 16:44 schrieb Joel C. Salomon: I’ve not been following the recent back-and-forth regarding which XɘLaTeX packages are now obsolete, and which are compatible with LuaLaTeX. Right now my personal style files files have lines like these: \ifxetex

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation initiative

2010-09-12 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 12.09.2010 um 04:12 schrieb Will Robertson: On 2010-09-12 05:11:54 +0930, Philipp Stephani st_phil...@yahoo.de said: OpenType Math is still in a very early stage in XeTeX and has so many bugs that it is not ready for production use. Thanks for the vote of confidence. Unfortunately

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation initiative

2010-09-12 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 12.09.2010 um 10:22 schrieb Apostolos Syropoulos: greatly diminished. OpenType Math is still in a very early stage in XeTeX and has so many bugs that it is not ready for production use. I think this is a wrong statement: OpenType Math is by itself in early stage. Only two-three

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation initiative

2010-09-11 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 10.09.2010 um 19:24 schrieb Michiel Kamermans: 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. making the choice ridiculously easy. It's not at all ridiculously

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation initiative

2010-09-11 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 11.09.2010 um 20:27 schrieb 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

Re: [XeTeX] Change fonts for different environment/commands

2010-09-08 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 08.09.2010 um 08:46 schrieb Wilfred van Rooijen: Hi all, But why ? What exactly do you dislike about the use of sans serif for headings ? To my mind, and in a scientific as opposed to artistic context, sans serif headings with serif prose seem absolutely normal and fine. The

Re: [XeTeX] Good Text Font + Math Font Combination

2010-08-17 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 17.08.2010 um 10:31 schrieb Peter Dyballa: Has Thunderbird a way to send a message to this list without usurping an existing thread? Posting a new message (without using the answer function) to xetex@tug.org should start a new thread. --

Re: [XeTeX] \botmark and \firstmark not working for me ...

2010-08-01 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 01.08.2010 um 09:28 schrieb Ron Aaron: On Sunday 01 August 2010 10:16:27 Paul Isambert wrote: Indeed, the \mark won't end up on the main vertical list. In the latest TUGboat issue, Hans Hagen writes about this and proposes a nice solution... but with LuaTeX! Hmm. I really need

Re: [XeTeX] EuroTeX 2009 proceedings

2010-03-20 Thread Philipp Stephani
Am 20.03.2010 um 00:41 schrieb Peter Baker: Peter Dyballa wrote: Am 20.03.2010 um 00:13 schrieb David Perry: When I started learning TeX, I could find only one editor, TeXworks, that was Unicode-aware. And that is still the case, although I see that TeXnicCenter has now rolled out an