Re: [XeTeX] arabic diacritics breaking words in Linux xelatex

2015-02-12 Thread heer
Kamal, I'm using Tex Live 2013 on Ubuntu 14.04 and your file works perfectly. All the letters are properly connected. Nicholas On Thu, 12 Feb 2015, Kamal Abdali wrote: Normally any letter that gets joined to the next letter in a word does so whether or not it bears a diacritic. But Tex Li

Re: [XeTeX] widowpenalty

2015-01-17 Thread heer
holas + Nicholas L. Heer, Professor Emeritus Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization University of Washington, Box 353120, Seattle, WA 98195-3120, USA E-Mail: h...@u.washington.edu Telephone: 206-325-0852 WWW: http://faculty.washington.edu

Re: [XeTeX] bold small caps, but no regular small caps

2013-07-31 Thread heer
Mike, I'm using version 4.110 of Charis SIL. Maybe that's why I had no problem with your temp.tex file. Nick On Wed, 31 Jul 2013, Mike Maxwell wrote: On 7/30/2013 1:33 AM, heer wrote: I've just tested your temp.tex with TeXLive in Ubuntu version 12.4 and it works perf

Re: [XeTeX] bold small caps, but no regular small caps

2013-07-29 Thread heer
Dear Mike, I've just tested your temp.tex with TeXLive in Ubuntu version 12.4 and it works perfectly. I think it's the 2009-15 version of TeXLive. I've attached the temp.pdf file that it produced. Nicholas Heer On Sun, 28 Jul 2013, Mike Maxwell wrote: I have a simple test

Re: [XeTeX] bidi.sty for plain XeTeX

2012-12-22 Thread heer
Thanks to you all for the marvelous help you have given me on how to use bidi with plain xetex. It's obvious to me now that I will have to upgrade my 2009 version of TeX Live. I don't know why Ubuntu still makes available only this old version and not the latest version. Fortunately John

Re: [XeTeX] bidi.sty for plain XeTeX

2012-12-21 Thread heer
you really just need \beginR and at the end \endR There are no doubt slicker ways of doing things, but that gave me good output first time round so I stuck with it! John - Original Message ----- From: "heer" To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms&

Re: [XeTeX] bidi.sty for plain XeTeX

2012-12-21 Thread heer
now of. Nicholas On Fri, 21 Dec 2012, Joseph Wright wrote: On 21/12/2012 21:52, heer wrote: Is there a bidi.sty file for plain XeTeX or only for XeLateX? I'd like to be able to use Arabic script in plain XeTeX. Nicholas The bidi docs include instructions for using it with plain XeT

[XeTeX] bidi.sty for plain XeTeX

2012-12-21 Thread heer
Is there a bidi.sty file for plain XeTeX or only for XeLateX? I'd like to be able to use Arabic script in plain XeTeX. Nicholas -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] arabxetex and transliteration

2012-11-18 Thread heer
encoding was the only way to write translitteration letters. Yours, --- Anas Ghrab Le Nov 12, 2012 à 1:20 AM, heer a écrit : Now that the subject of ArabXeTeX has come up, I have a question myself.  Is there any way of using the verses.sty macro from Lagally's ArabTeX in ArabXeTeX?  It

Re: [XeTeX] arabxetex and transliteration

2012-11-12 Thread heer
mm Kulthum back in the fifties and sixties. Is the original .tex file of your dissertation available for download? I'd love to use it as a sample of an ArabXeTeX file. Or maybe you have other ArabXeTeX files you could send me as samples. Sincerely yours, Nicholas Heer On Mon, 12 Nov 2

Re: [XeTeX] arabxetex and transliteration

2012-11-11 Thread heer
Arabic or Persian texts that do not contain any verses at all, so it would be nice to be able to use ArabTeX's verses.sty when using ArabXeTeX. Nicholas Heer -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex