Re: [XeTeX] Controlling font embedding in PDF output

2018-11-15 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Perhaps it is easier to generate the PDF, then remove the embedded fonts? Wilfred On Friday, November 16, 2018, 6:07:43 AM GMT+9, Werner LEMBERG wrote: [Originally sent to the TeXLive mailing list, but this list is not really appropriate for this question.] Is there a simple option

Re: [XeTeX] which TeX-based software

2018-05-01 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Following Mojca's explanation, I feel I should switch to ConTeXt :-)) Wilfred On Tuesday, May 1, 2018 3:43 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 26 April 2018 at 14:20, Carrs wrote: > Hi, > > a newbie question. I would like advice on which TeX-based software it would > be best to learn in detai

Re: [XeTeX] which TeX-based software

2018-04-28 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
What I was trying to explain was the following: even if the software supports UTF-8 / unicode, then that does not necessarily mean that it supports ("out of the box") all your typographical wishes and demands. The OP was referring to several complicated typesetting tasks. My advice is: do not st

Re: [XeTeX] which TeX-based software

2018-04-27 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Allow me to contribute my two cents to the discussion. First, it is my experience, and I also always tell my students, the following: "if you have something you want to typeset with LaTeX, somebody else has wanted that a long time ago, and yet someone else will have written a package for it". Th

Re: [XeTeX] index not showing up as an entry in the table of contents

2018-04-25 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
I also tried to answer the original question, but since I could not find a proper solution I did not answer. Indeed, the problem has something to do with bidi, and perhaps also with multicol. If you change the order of the packages, there is an error from bidi about multicolumn environment. This

Re: [XeTeX] The arcs package

2018-03-17 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
necessary skills to maintain the code and I was not the one who came up with the modifications. I'd be more than happy to take care of the administrative side of things, if that's possible. Best,Arash On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, 12:54 Wilfred van Rooijen, wrote: You should "adopt" t

Re: [XeTeX] The arcs package

2018-03-16 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
You should "adopt" the package and become the new maintainer, perhaps. Wilfred On Friday, March 16, 2018 7:33 PM, Arash Zeini wrote: Hi Everyone, A couple of years ago, I raised an issue I had encountered with the arcs package (see below for the complete run of messages). A solution

Re: [XeTeX] popup windows in XeLaTeX?

2018-02-25 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
As far as I know, LuaLaTeX works with UTF-8 (as does XeLaTeX), so that they should give the same result - if the input file is encoded in UTF-8- if the same font is used- if the documentclass is "LuaLaTeX-compatible" Note that for LuaLaTeX you may need to change the documentclass, it is my exp

Re: [XeTeX] Using tikz with plain XeTeX

2017-05-13 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
As far as I know, tikz and pstricks should not be used simultaneous in a document. Wilfred On Saturday, May 13, 2017 8:08 PM, Philip Taylor wrote: John Was wrote: > I get six lines of info in the output (the sort of thing I’d expect in the > log) Can you please post the /full/ code

Re: [XeTeX] Overfull boxes return status of 0 in XeTeX

2016-03-13 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
I haven't followed the discussion in detail, but IMHO it would be nonsense to turn overfull boxes into errors, because they are not errors, rather the line breaking algorithm could not find a proper way to fix things differently. Remember, there is always the "draft" mode which will clearly show

Re: [XeTeX] Why XeTeX runs are non-deterministic?

2016-02-20 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
If I remember well, there is (was ?) some kind of objective for backward compatibility, namely that all (updates of) versions of all TeX engines should produce the exact same output for a given input file. The background being that any TeX file that used to compile correctly in the past should a

Re: [XeTeX] Two side and margins

2016-02-13 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
RTFM of the geometry package to make sure you know what you're doing. Put the \geometry{twoside} __before__ you make changes because the \geometry{twoside} will probably overwrite (some of) your custom settings. This is NOT a XeTeX question. Go to http://tex.stackexchange.com/ for these kinds o

Re: [XeTeX] DVIasm

2016-02-09 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
There are many "gotchas" going from Python 2 to Python 3 - with the change from "print" to "print()" being by far the most irritating (and the most stringently enforced by the Python interpreter). There are several IDEs which can highlight problems and give tips to migrate from Python 2 to Pytho

Re: [XeTeX] DVIasm

2016-02-08 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Sorry to bump into this conversation, but if you want Python 2 and Python 3 compatibility, I think you also need to so something about the "%", since Python 2.6 there is the str.format() method which is more reliable then %-formatting (*). More importantly, the "%" will become deprecated in some

Re: [XeTeX] Make Tamil font as default

2016-01-28 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
See the fontspec manual to set main font and auxiliary fonts in XeTeX. Wilfred On Thursday, January 28, 2016 10:40 PM, Shakthi Kannan wrote: Hi, I have the following input.tex file:   https://gist.github.com/shakthimaan/3dcfa64c3bd92ab2378d The content has more Tamil text than Eng

Re: [XeTeX] Graphics overwriting text

2014-11-21 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
I have a feeling that the JPG image is the source of the problem, and that somehow the calculation of the bounding box (i.e. the calculation of the size of the figure) somehow goes wrong. Apparently, the actual image is larger than what latex expects. Note the following: LaTeX does not know abou

Re: [XeTeX] Problems with toc

2014-07-15 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Question is of course: what is "properly formatted"... On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 2:32 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > >I'm using the new "tex14live", and am having great difficulties in >generating a toc without spaces between each item. I'm using >--8<---cut here---sta

Re: [XeTeX] FakeBold vs TikZ

2014-06-15 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi all, I can confirm this issue with XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-0..3 (TeX Live 2013) on linux and both Evince and Acroread as PDF viewers. There definitely is a dot. I guess the issue is solved in TeXLive 2014. By the way, if you add a an extra circle to be plotted, that extra circle do

Re: [XeTeX] Linguistic structural analysis

2014-06-06 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
If you want to do this in LaTeX, then PGF/TikZ is the only workable solution. It contains several libraries to make these kinds of maps, check the manual. I think the "Tree Library" might be interesting for your application. Cheers, Wilfred On Saturday, June 7, 2014 6:21 AM, Johann Spies wr

Re: [XeTeX] hyperlinks, and no section numbers

2014-05-17 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Excuse me for being ignorant, but if you want __no__ section numbers, then why not use \section*{} ? Cheers, Wilfred On Saturday, May 17, 2014 7:07 PM, Zdenek Wagner wrote: > > >2014-05-17 11:38 GMT+02:00 Sharon Kimble : > >Stefan Solbrig writes: >> >>> Sorry, but I cannot reproduce your

Re: [XeTeX] texlive and xetex

2014-01-05 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, > I just installed texlive basic and latex cjk to ubuntu 13.10 of my > triple-boot xp osx lnx D430 with total hdd space 120Gb. Trpl bt wth 1 hdd impress. abbrev. Cool. ;-)) > I wonder whether such installation of texlive includes all xetex or not > 'cause I really interested in xetex. I

Re: [XeTeX] Letterly fonts

2013-08-07 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
will do fine. > >Best, >Dominik > > > > >On 5 August 2013 03:47, Kai Hendry wrote: > >On 5 August 2013 08:56, Wilfred van Rooijen wrote: >>> What is a "letter template" for the world? >> >>Well my dream would be people from India, China

Re: [XeTeX] Letterly fonts

2013-08-06 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Well, > > Fine, then I would like to know their template for fun. :-) I guess I > have only have the British style so far: > https://github.com/kaihendry/letterly/blob/master/letter.template > > Could you help me out with > https://github.com/kaihendry/letterly/blob/master/letter.template.be >

Re: [XeTeX] Letterly fonts

2013-08-05 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi all, > > Well my dream would be people from India, China or Korea, after > visiting http://letterly.com/ can create a letter PDF using Xetex in > their own script. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_(message) Mmmm. An interesting endeavour, but why? There are as many "templates for forma

Re: [XeTeX] Letterly fonts

2013-08-04 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
> >However I think I have go good results with fonts-baekmuk (2.2-7): >http://s.natalian.org/2013-08-04/baekmuk.png Baekmuk fonts are actually fonts for Korean so yes, they should be able to handle Hangul :-)) If you want a font that supports almost all known scripts, take a look at Code2000

Re: [XeTeX] Font Location Issue?

2013-07-24 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hello, I think I had a similar error on Linux with some fonts. The issue seems to be that xelatex accesses some fonts by file name and others by the "identifier" that is in the font file (this may have changed in the meantime - I had this error 6 months ago). In my case, I checked with 'fc-list

Re: [XeTeX] pstricks / pst-labo and xelatex

2013-07-22 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
lf. Cheers, Wilfred > > From: Akira Kakuto >To: Wilfred van Rooijen ; XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) >discussion. >Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 8:16 PM >Subject: Re: [XeTeX] pstricks / pst-labo and xelatex > > >Hi, > >> ** WARNING ** 355 memory objects still a

Re: [XeTeX] pstricks / pst-labo and xelatex

2013-07-22 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Maybe a late contribution. I installed TeXLive 2013 today on my linux laptop. I tried the test file (with the test tube) and it results in a correct PDF (?) \listfiles \documentclass{minimal} \usepackage{pstricks,pst-labo} \begin{document} \begin{pspicture} \pstTubeEssais \end{pspicture} \end{do

Re: [XeTeX] xelatex error: The font "Code2000" cannot be found.

2013-06-28 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi all, > By default, LaTeX will set text in Computer Modern Roman.  This is > clearly what Peng Yu means by LaTeX's English font.  If he is now I thought Computer Modern Roman was superseded my Latin Modern but I may be wrong. If this user has a "Chinese" OS installation on his computer then

Re: [XeTeX] bidi & xwatermark are broken

2013-06-12 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
r 9000  1144 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191  70i,13n,67p,940b,726s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,1p,20b,5s Output written on test1.pdf (3 pages). > > From: Arthur Reutenauer >To: Wilfred van Rooijen ; XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) >d

Re: [XeTeX] bidi & xwatermark are broken

2013-06-12 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Well, it works OK on my computer, but note that the "DRAFT" shows up in a rather strange place... See attached PDF. Wilfred > > From: Fahad Al-Saidi >To: XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion. >Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 7:50 PM >Subject: Re: [XeTeX] bi

Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX

2013-06-11 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
I am not really a hero with Windows, but maybe: - Go to Control Panel, Add/Remove Software, and remove everything related to TeXLive - Check the directories manually and manually remove any remaining files / directories - Install TeXLive from scratch Hopefully this will give you a clean system.

Re: [XeTeX] Strange error

2013-06-09 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hmmm. Polyglossia calls etoolbox. It really should be on your system if xetex is also available. Wilfred > > From: Sasi Kumar >To: xetex@tug.org >Sent: Sunday, June 9, 2013 9:07 PM >Subject: [XeTeX] Strange error > > > >Dear friends, > >I encountered an err

Re: [XeTeX] Strange error

2013-06-09 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Well http://www.ctan.org/pkg/etoolbox The package is present in TeXLive 2012. Cheers, Wilfred > > From: Sasi Kumar >To: xetex@tug.org >Sent: Sunday, June 9, 2013 9:07 PM >Subject: [XeTeX] Strange error > > > >Dear friends, > >I encountered an error I

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX, xeCJK, Japanese: some general questions

2013-06-05 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi all, >> Since the graphics package doesn't ``know'' which backend > driver you are going to use after the dvi file is created (it will assume > dvips > by default when in dvi mode) you need to give [dvipdfm] in the option list. >> > It was needed in the early days of XeTeX, now it is reco

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX, xeCJK, Japanese: some general questions

2013-06-05 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
uot;第1章" etc. Indeed, the standard classes for ctex and uptex take care of these things. In memoir it is possible to emulate the behavior, but not from polyglossia or babel - changes to the actual class files are needed. Cheers, Wilfred - Original Message ----- > From: Jiang Jiang

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX, xeCJK, Japanese: some general questions

2013-06-04 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
eX, xeCJK, Japanese: some general questions > > Hi all, > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 16:31:50 -0700, Wilfred van Rooijen wrote: > >> About the gloss-japanese and gloss-nihongo > > I'm not a Polyglossia user so not so sure but I know that > TeXLive 2012/2013 alread

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX, xeCJK, Japanese: some general questions

2013-06-04 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hello Kohda-sensei, others, > I'm not a Polyglossia user so not so sure but I know that > TeXLive 2012/2013 already contains japanese.ldf like > /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/platex/japanese/japanese.ldf > on my Debian system. To be honest, I am not an expert on p(la)tex. I know it exis

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX, xeCJK, Japanese: some general questions

2013-06-04 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
(You can use the ctex document class as well, which is a higher level wrapper of both xeCJK and other Chinese typesetting options.) - Jiang I prefer memoir. In fact, this is one of the things I remember from when I was looking at gloss-japanese. the problem is that for instance the chapte

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX, xeCJK, Japanese: some general questions

2013-06-04 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Boldface is needed - it is used in almost all Japanese text books, for sections headers etc. OK, thanks for the info, Wilfred From: Jiang Jiang To: Wilfred van Rooijen ; Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms Sent: Wednesday, June 5, 2013 12:34

[XeTeX] XeLaTeX, xeCJK, Japanese: some general questions

2013-06-02 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi all, I have been using XeLaTeX for a while now. Most of my materials are in English, or mixed Japanese and English. Until now, I have been using the following setup: - XeLaTeX + fontspec - linebreaking in Japanese: \XeTeXlinebreaklocale "ja" \XeTeXlinebreakskip=0em plus 0.1em minus 0.01em

Re: [XeTeX] Problem with XeTeX 0.9999.2 and includegraphics

2013-04-17 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
 >Avoid file names with an unusual number of dots (unusual is > everything not equal to 0). I would say everything not equal to 1. In fact, I am surprised that graphicx processes the file name with two dots correctly. Normally graphicx uses the last dot to be the delimiter for the file extens

Re: [XeTeX] (no subject)

2012-12-24 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hello Sasi, Do you have "doubts" or "questions". "Doubts" would indicate that you do not trust the software? "Questions" would be just questions. Allow me to help a bit. Xe(La)TeX is just like "normal", but with one big difference: xe(la)tex can read UTF-8 encoded source files. This means that

Re: [XeTeX] how do I embed fonts into a a xelatex generated pdf?

2012-05-03 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hello, Always be careful with pdf2ps. If one converts PS to PDF, information is lost - this is one of the reasons that the PDF file is usually smaller in size than the PS file. So it is technically not always possible to perfectly reconstruct a PS from a PDF. So be careful, especially if the ma

Re: [XeTeX] Texworks not finding .sty file

2012-05-02 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
As mentioned by Pete, you have to update the database of filenames that TeX uses to locate files on your computer. In most tex-distributions there are four places where stylefiles and classfiles may be located: - In the tree of the distribution itself. For most casual users, this is the only p

Re: [XeTeX] xdCJK how to mix occasional Japanese with Chinese and English

2012-04-23 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Life can be even simpler. Especially of you are not too much interested in the finer details of line-breaking etc. The following works quite OK for me: \documentclass[]{memoir} \usepackage{polyglossia}  % will load fontspec %

Re: [XeTeX] enumerating quotations

2012-04-02 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Check out the amsthm package, the AMS Theorem package. It provides environments to make mathematical theorems, definitions, proofs, etc. You can set it up according to your own wishes and get numbered (and unnumbered if desired) "quotations" and I guess you can also use \ref if you put a \label

Re: [XeTeX] fonts: where to find? how to activate bold face?

2012-01-24 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hello Susan, To get a list of fonts installed on your linux computer, open a terminal and use fc-list This will give a list of all OTF and TTF on the system, including their "xetex name". Regarding the lack of boldface, apparently your Angor Man Scaqh does not include boldface characters. If

Re: [XeTeX] grouping multiple types of footnote per section on same page

2012-01-23 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hello Matthias, What exactly do you mean? The present ordering in your book.pdf is: page 1: a s1; b s1; c s1; a s2; 1 s1; 2 s1; 3 s1; 4 s1; 5 s1; 6 s1; 1 s2; 2 s2; 3 s2; 4 s2 page 2: b s2; c s2; d s2; a s3; 5 s2; 1 s2; 2 s3 Is this the ordering you want, or do you want the ordering to be differ

Re: [XeTeX] HELP! ** ERROR ** Page number 65536l too large!

2011-09-29 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
But the real question remains: does the topic starter really produce a file with 65000 pages? Or is there some other error at play? The topic starter never mentioned how large his "large" tex file is Wilfred From: Martin Schröder To: Unicode-based TeX for

Re: [XeTeX] Please help me in editing with fancy header in Latex

2011-08-23 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hello, I think the question was already answered, but if you're new to LaTeX: - LaTeX is not difficult, but not simple either. Start by reading one of the introductory manuals: "The not so short introduction to LaTeX" is provided in all LaTeX distributions, in many languages - All latex package

Re: [XeTeX] xetex/xelatex using TeXShop

2011-08-04 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, TeXshop is just a text editor specifically developed for editing tex source files. To use xelatex, you need to install the tex software as well. Cheerio, Wilfred From: Kattamuri Ekanadham To: xetex@tug.org Sent: Friday, August 5, 2011 9:10 AM Subject: [Xe

Re: [XeTeX] not a specifically xetex question: how to put a character flush to right in centered environment?

2011-07-19 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi Quang, This may not answer your question directly, but for things like theorems, definitions, and proofs, take a look at the amsthm package. In almost all LaTeX class files environments for theorems, lemmas etc are defined, and with amsthm you can fine-tune those. For instance, if you use \b

Re: [XeTeX] textup superscript

2011-06-09 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hello, What kind of superscripts are you referring to? If they are the symbols for footnotes, then maybe you should look at how the footnote is defined, maybe something like \footnotetext or something. In that case, it also depends on which class file you are using, I think that memoir offers m

Re: [XeTeX] Quotation marks

2011-06-08 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
If I remember correctly, I thought that there is in fact a \quote-command or something similar in latex which will produce the correct quotation marks for the currently active language. I remember that we had a lengthy discussion about that once on the Dutch latex list, but I forgot the details

Re: [XeTeX] xelatex and table of contents

2011-05-10 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, Please send a minimal example file which illustrates the problem. Then we can try to reproduce and fix the error. Cheers, Wilfred --- On Wed, 11/5/11, Ross Moore wrote: > From: Ross Moore > Subject: Re: [XeTeX] xelatex and table of contents > To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other

Re: [XeTeX] Beginning user with questions

2011-05-08 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
For very basic questions like this, there are an almost infinite number of resources online. - Typeset a tonal language. I don't know exactly what that means, but if it involves unicode-encoded characters and a font which can represent those characters, xe(la)tex is the way to go! - A table in

Re: [XeTeX] Question about footnotes and unicode-math

2011-04-12 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
chulz > Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Question about footnotes and unicode-math > To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" > Date: Thursday, 7 April, 2011, 8:57 PM > > On Apr 7, 2011, at 1:06 AM, Wilfred van Rooijen wrote: > > > Hi, > > >

[XeTeX] Question about footnotes and unicode-math

2011-04-06 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, I am trying to use the unicode-math package in TL2011. I encounter something strange with the behavior of footnotes. The following code produces a "non-superscript" footnote (?). I checked the manual but was not able to find anything relevant. Am I doing something wrong, and if so, please e

Re: [XeTeX] Tricky Format: Page Number Outside The Footnote Area

2011-01-25 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hello, Is this email address hijacked? You are supposed to be Rin Itoshiki, but I think that in reality you are not. Anyway. You are making your life too complicated. The template is very simple. If you use the memoir class, you can do all that is needed and the only thing you will need to cus

Re: [XeTeX] Custom page size

2011-01-11 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi all, In my humble opinion, the best you can do when it comes to custom paper sizes is to use the memoir class. The memoir manual (memman.pdf) has an excellent description of how latex treats the size of the stock, the page, and the folio. The memoir package includes the geometry package, but

Re: [XeTeX] Please HeLp: I get this error compiling my Thesis

2010-12-14 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Please post more details, this is very little info. Apparently, you are loading several packages, and the macro \ifpdf is being defined by different packages. Potential solution: change package loading order, if you're like one of the packages has an IF statement to bypass the definition of \if

Re: [XeTeX] Specifying papersize with XeTeX

2010-11-10 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Although I may not really understand the question, if you take a look at the manual of the memoir class, it is precisely explained how (La)TeX treats the page size. Also, the geometry package lets you select any page size you want. Basically, (La)TeX does not care about the page size. For (La)Te

Re: [XeTeX] Incorrect handling of name prefixes by biblatex (van, de)

2010-11-01 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
name > is used (van OPSTAL, 1989) instead of (Van OPSTAL, 1989)... > it's the same thing in the bibliography : van OPSTAL,  > A.J. instead of Van OPSTAL, A.J. > - And maybe worst : all these names are sorted under "V" in > the bibliography ! > > Thanks > > Pierre &g

Re: [XeTeX] Incorrect handling of name prefixes by biblatex (van, de)

2010-10-31 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, I don't know if the following helps, it seems basic bibtex so I assume you already know. But just in case, the following example comes from the Latex Companion: "Johannes Martinus Albertus van de Groene Heide" (it may seem far-fetched but this kind of name is fairly common in The Netherlan

Re: [XeTeX] Fonts in running heads

2010-10-31 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, Please note the following: latex can "speak many languages". This is achieved with the babel package. In xetex and friends, the babel package is superceded by the polyglossia package, but the objective is the same. For example, the words for "chapter" and "section" are translated into the

Re: [XeTeX] newpage

2010-10-21 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, Just for the record: there are several commands in LaTeX to start a new page (from the top of my head: \newpage, \clearpage, \cleardoublepage, \clearemptydoublepage). In all cases, basically all material will be set on a page, and when the command is encountered, a new page is started and s

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation "initiative"

2010-09-15 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, > > If you ever struggled coercing LaTeX to lay out your > document the way > you want it, you will really appreciate this ConTeXt > feature. The thing is, as many LaTeX manuals state: "You don't want to worry about layout, instead focus on content." I think this is true of many latex user

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation "initiative"

2010-09-14 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
A somewhat belated reply. > - Of course ConTeXt mustn't be ignored. ConTeXt Mk IV, > which is based on LuaTeX, seems to have everything that is > missing from LaTeX: a stable, coherent interface, a > well-designed architecture that makes LaTeX-style hacking > and package clashes unnecessary, X

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation "initiative"

2010-09-09 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
wvanrooi...@yahoo.com > Date: Friday, 10 September, 2010, 2:23 PM > Hi Wilfred, > > On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 21:09:55 -0700 (PDT), Wilfred van > Rooijen wrote: > > > 10. Utilities : bibtex and makeindex (***) > > > (***) as for references, how far should one go in the

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation "initiative"

2010-09-09 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
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 accessible through xelatex are beyond our scope (to give

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation "initiative"

2010-09-09 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi Elliott, To answer your question: as far as I know, from the point of view of xetex as a computer language, it is supposed to be the same as standard tex, and thus ConTeXt should work just as well with xetex. But if you want to use a special XeTeX feature which is not yet introduced into Con

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation "initiative"

2010-09-08 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
l kinds of other things start to vie for attention also). Regards, Wilfred van Rooijen --- On Thu, 9/9/10, Alan Munn wrote: > From: Alan Munn > Subject: Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation "initiative" > To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" > D

Re: [XeTeX] XeTex and Japanese kunten and warichū

2010-09-08 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi all, It seems that some standardization is needed for CJK in xelatex. We have had discussion going on and off about ruby, furigana, spacing around letters etc. From my limited knowledge, please consider this: - A polyglossia package (polyglossia = babel for xelatex) is in the making (I am m

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

2010-09-07 Thread 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 age-old discussion as to whether or not sans-serif is ev

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

2010-09-07 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, Maybe my answer is a littlebit late, but I hope it might provide the original poster with some insight. Tex by itself is a rather stupid program, in the sense that it will read a stream of input commands and text and then put the corresponding font elements (glyphs) on some location in spa

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation "initiative"

2010-09-07 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
anual. Regards, Wilfred van Rooijen --- On Wed, 1/9/10, Michiel Kamermans wrote: > From: Michiel Kamermans > Subject: [XeTeX] XeTeX documentation "initiative" > To: "XeTeX Mailing List" > Date: Wednesday, 1 September, 2010, 6:07 PM > Hi all, > > based o

Re: [XeTeX] Converting math symbols via xetex

2010-08-31 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, Note the following: in latex, setting of mathematical material is __substantially__ different from "normal" text. For example, the Greek letter phi can be entered as φ into xelatex, but is then not treated as a 'special mathematical' symbol. Math symbols are grouped into several categories:

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

2010-08-31 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
I think you will have to redefine all those parts of the environments dealing with fonts. Can you send a minimal example of what you want to achieve? In my case, \addfontfeature yields "undefined control sequence". There are many packages which already take care of these things for you, such as

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

2010-08-31 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
I guess it depends on the target audience. The Latex Companion is a good resource because it is written by experienced users, rather than maintainers of the packages. So I suppose we come to the point of "User Manual" and "Reference Manual". With all the tools available nowadays (doxygen, docstr

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

2010-08-30 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Come on, let's not get mad at each other. Avi's remark is both good-witted and true, and that last aspect makes it somewhat painful :-)) Indeed, the open source architecture should make it possible for non-developers to write a manual of the same quality, because you can access the source code

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

2010-08-30 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
I guess that in the Closed Source community you get a similar answer, it is just that __nobody__ outside those directly involved knows about it :-)) I have complained before on this list about the (scientific) community in which I am involved, where manuals are often outdated, or too short ("Car

Re: [XeTeX] Checking if a font exists

2010-08-30 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
> > You can edit the file fonts.conf (for example in /etc/fonts > or /usr/X11/lib/X11/fontconfig) or ~/.fonts.conf, your > personal copy that fonts are searched additionally in > particular places. Certainly, but on a "standard system" this may not be set. Thus testing in fc-list would return a

Re: [XeTeX] Checking if a font exists

2010-08-29 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, I am not 100% sure, but "fc-list" and friends might not always list the fonts even if they are on the user's system. For example, on my gentoo linux desktop, fonts for Adobe Acrobat are installed in a specific directory and are not included in the system-wide fonts by default. In fact, I ha

Re: [XeTeX] includegraphics and spaces in the graphic's filename path

2010-08-24 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi all, > > > But my advice is: Avoid spaces. > > Agreed. > > > Nowadays spaces in file names are > > not a problem in the majority of cases. But you can In the latex world it is my experience that it is best to avoid spaces. For instance, if you have a space in the name of the directory in w

Re: [XeTeX] Japanese Characters in PDF do not match thosein source file.

2010-08-22 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, When you update your tex system make sure to run "texconfig" or a similar utility to update the database of file names, paths, etc. If you use Linux, make sure that the font occurs only once on your system. Fonts that are only installed by a single user usually reside in $HOME/.fonts, and s

Re: [XeTeX] Japanese Characters in PDF do not match thosein source file.

2010-08-20 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, When I open your file in gedit, I get an error message that the file is not in UTF-8 and cannot be opened with any of the "default encodings". If I switch to UTF-16 manually I can open the file but it looks very strange: there are no control sequences, and while CJK characters show up, they

Re: [XeTeX] xelatex, texshop, Chinese question marks

2010-08-11 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, If I use Kochi Mincho (a font for Japanese), the first two characters show up correctly. The last character is Chinese-only. Judging from your post, I think the font that you are using (STkai) does not have glyphs for the characters you are requesting. So you should try another font. I am s

[XeTeX] Need help with polyglossia gloss files for Japanese

2010-08-09 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi all, My progress so far: I found the gloss-template file and used it to make a file gloss-japaneseA for a language "japaneseA". I have used this name, because both "japanese" and "nihongo" already exist and I do not want to break those gloss files. So far, I have set the proper names for ch

[XeTeX] [polyglossia] How to write new gloss files for polyglossia?

2010-08-09 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi all, and especially Francois Charette, Wybo Dekker has asked me if it is possible to make a version of his isodoc package to work with Japanese. I have been trying to set this up, but I keep running into smaller and larger errors having to do with the combination of xelatex + fontspec + poly

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

2010-07-25 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Do you want documents written in English or is Japanese also OK? In the latter case, you could try to find JIS X 4051, which is the document underlying the material on the website reported earlier. I have google'd JIS X 4051, some references popped up, but the document itself seems to be not ava

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

2010-07-24 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi Benct, > > I guess that means you only need key(board positions) for > those ~40 phonetic characters and a rendering engine which > automagically replaces h+a+n with the composite syllable > character for "han", which also means that when you > backspace > the entire syllable will disappear. 

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

2010-07-23 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, > used in Taiwan. I am not aware of any phonetic guide text > practices in Korea. 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. The hangul script combines 1, 2, or 3 consonants and vowel

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

2010-07-23 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi all, As Francois Charette has indicated in another email, there are already two packages for Japanese with polyglossia. I have offered to make these packages into "official" polyglossia releases because the present versions are adaptions from adaptions (I live in Japan, I can speak enough Ja

Re: [XeTeX] Unable to use XeLaTeX correctly upon TexLive2008 Install

2010-07-09 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
otf  and  otfinfo -p fontname.otf to get the font name for setting /fontspec command. Kind Regards,Alan On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Wilfred van Rooijen wrote: Hi, The error indicates that the particular font is not found as part of the system-wide fonts. Then, xelatex tries to generate the font in th

Re: [XeTeX] Unable to use XeLaTeX correctly upon TexLive2008 Install

2010-07-09 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, The error indicates that the particular font is not found as part of the system-wide fonts. Then, xelatex tries to generate the font in the old-fashioned way, and this fails. This means that you are using the wrong name in the \fontspec command. On Linux, do: 1. run "fc-cache -fv" This wi

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

2010-06-25 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi >From the error log you have supplied, the error happens on page 34. It seems >to me that this is not far into the document, and thus I think the crash has >nothing to do with the size of the document. I suspect that there is some >instruction in the source code which causes the crash, not

Re: [XeTeX] Embedding sounds in XeLaTeX

2010-06-06 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi, > > Unfortunately not. movie15 requires pdfTeX because it > I think there is one: > > http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/asymptote/patches/movie15_dvipdfmx.sty >From the filename, I would expect that this package uses or requires the >dvipdfmx program to convert dvi to pdf. As far as I know,

Re: [XeTeX] Python Project: PDF Optimization

2010-06-05 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi all, Given the few responses we have had so far on this topic, it seems that the OP is right: there are many, small programs available which can do most of what is required, but each of those programs then has specific applications which it can or cannot do. To make an "integrated" package,

Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX font options

2010-05-19 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
Hi Mark, > > Alright. When selecting the font, is this enough to make it > work in > the document? Or should I use \setmainfont? Is there any > place where I > need to add "Mapping=tex-text"? Blame my newbieness for > not > understanding better. Sorry. Currently I have added > \setmainfont at > t

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