Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks

2014-04-26 Thread Ross Moore
I'm finding this thread to be quite distressing. On 26/04/2014, at 6:45, Philip Taylor wrote: > Wagner wrote: > >> XeTeX can do via xdvipdfmx specials almost everything explained in the >> PDF reference and pdfmark reference. Will you insist to include these >> 1000+ pages in the XeTeX manual?

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks

2014-04-25 Thread Philip Taylor
Zdenek Wagner wrote: XeTeX can do via xdvipdfmx specials almost everything explained in the PDF reference and pdfmark reference. Will you insist to include these 1000+ pages in the XeTeX manual? No, Zdeněk; I am asking for /important/ facts to be documented, not the entire known universe. A

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks

2014-04-25 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2014-04-25 22:21 GMT+02:00 Philip Taylor : > > > David Carlisle wrote: > > I don't see any reason to include the documentation in the xetex manual >> >> texdoc dvipdfmx >> >> provides a 5 or so page tugboat article with the details, what's to be >> gained by copying that? >> >> It just duplicat

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks

2014-04-25 Thread Philip Taylor
David Carlisle wrote: I don't see any reason to include the documentation in the xetex manual texdoc dvipdfmx provides a 5 or so page tugboat article with the details, what's to be gained by copying that? It just duplicates the information and is only of interest to a minuscule fraction o

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks

2014-04-25 Thread David Carlisle
> XeTeX My-file .. > XeTeX &LaTeX My-LaTeX-file Philip that's not been true for so long I'm surprised you can remember that far back:-) all the web2c engines load formats based on their name, there is no intrinsic difference between say pdflatex with a preloaded latex and pdftex with a pre loaded

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks

2014-04-25 Thread Philip Taylor
msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: Just because you can invent a silly-looking command line to make invoking XeLaTeX look more difficult than it is, doesn't make XeLaTeX stop being an integrated tool chain. However, it seems unlikely that either of us will be able to change the other's mind on t

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks

2014-04-25 Thread mskala
On Fri, 25 Apr 2014, Philip Taylor wrote: > I'm sorry, Matthew, I can only think you are confusing XeTeX with some other > system. Just because you can invent a silly-looking command line to make invoking XeLaTeX look more difficult than it is, doesn't make XeLaTeX stop being an integrated tool ch

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks

2014-04-25 Thread Philip Taylor
msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: On Fri, 25 Apr 2014, Philip Taylor wrote: I'm sorry, what has LaTeX to do with any of this ? You don't want to hear about XeLaTeX, but you write: (X)DVIPDFM(X). Since (X)DVIPDFM(X) is indeed an integral part of the XeTeX tool chain, I think that documenting

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks

2014-04-25 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 07:18:34PM +0930, Will Robertson wrote: > > Khaled, would you be able update the copy in the xetex repo? Just send me the updated version and I’ll commit it (a git format-patch would be even better but not necessary). Regards, Khaled ---

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks

2014-04-25 Thread mskala
On Fri, 25 Apr 2014, Philip Taylor wrote: > I'm sorry, what has LaTeX to do with any of this ? You don't want to hear about XeLaTeX, but you write: > (X)DVIPDFM(X). Since (X)DVIPDFM(X) is indeed an integral part of the XeTeX > tool chain, I think that documenting how to access its functionality

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks

2014-04-25 Thread Philip Taylor
msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: XeLaTeX is the integrated toolchain. If you're going to insist that XeTeX without LaTeX must be fully documented as a separate entity, then it only makes sense to do the same for XDVIPDFMX. I'm sorry, what has LaTeX to do with any of this ? Philip Taylor -

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks

2014-04-25 Thread Herbert Schulz
On Apr 25, 2014, at 7:51 AM, Zdenek Wagner wrote: > 2014-04-25 13:59 GMT+02:00 : > On Fri, 25 Apr 2014, Philip Taylor wrote: > > (X)DVIPDFM(X). Since (X)DVIPDFM(X) is indeed an integral part of the XeTeX > > tool chain, I think that documenting how to access its functionality (with > > XeLaTeX

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks

2014-04-25 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2014-04-25 13:59 GMT+02:00 : > On Fri, 25 Apr 2014, Philip Taylor wrote: > > (X)DVIPDFM(X). Since (X)DVIPDFM(X) is indeed an integral part of the > XeTeX > > tool chain, I think that documenting how to access its functionality > (with > > XeLaTeX is the integrated toolchain. If you're going to i

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks

2014-04-25 Thread mskala
On Fri, 25 Apr 2014, Philip Taylor wrote: > (X)DVIPDFM(X). Since (X)DVIPDFM(X) is indeed an integral part of the XeTeX > tool chain, I think that documenting how to access its functionality (with XeLaTeX is the integrated toolchain. If you're going to insist that XeTeX without LaTeX must be full

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks

2014-04-25 Thread Philip Taylor
Philip Taylor wrote: Hallo both -- [long snip] It would also (IMHO) be very helpful to document how to create hyperlinks at the XeTeX primitive (\special) level; JK writes : IIRC, hyperlinks are handled entirely at the pdf output driver level; there are no xetex primitives involved. It

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks

2014-04-25 Thread Philip Taylor
Hallo both -- Will Robertson wrote: I’ve been away from LaTeX development work for a while; I’ve been known to let primitives slip through the cracks. Thanks for letting us know — I wouldn’t be surprised if there were some more we overlooked. These commands are all described in the pdfTeX ma

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks

2014-04-25 Thread Will Robertson
On 15 Apr 2014, at 9:49 am, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:58:23PM +0100, Philip Taylor wrote: >> >> Why are these key XeTeX primitives (\XeTeXprotrudechars, \rpcode, etc) >> not documented in /The XƎTEX reference guide/ ? Will, Khaled, >> Jonathan : can you comment on this,

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks

2014-04-15 Thread Ross Moore
Hi Phil, Have you ever tried \input miniltx.tex This then allows a subset of LaTeX structural commands and internals to be used without the documentclass stuff — which is what I think you detest most. Now many LaTeX packages can be loaded and used, without problems, in what are otherwise p

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks

2014-04-15 Thread Philip Taylor
OK, thank you Vafa, I will ask Thành. ** Phil. Vafa Khalighi wrote: If I recall correctly, Hàn Thế Thành added these primitives to XeTeX; therefore he knows them best. -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks

2014-04-15 Thread Vafa Khalighi
If I recall correctly, Hàn Thế Thành added these primitives to XeTeX; therefore he knows them best. On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Philip Taylor wrote: > > > Khaled Hosny wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:58:23PM +0100, Philip Taylor wrote: >> >>> >>> Why are these key XeTeX primitives (

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks

2014-04-15 Thread Philip Taylor
Khaled Hosny wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:58:23PM +0100, Philip Taylor wrote: Why are these key XeTeX primitives (\XeTeXprotrudechars, \rpcode, etc) not documented in /The XƎTEX reference guide/ ? Will, Khaled, Jonathan : can you comment on this, and will these (and any other current

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks

2014-04-14 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:58:23PM +0100, Philip Taylor wrote: > > Why are these key XeTeX primitives (\XeTeXprotrudechars, \rpcode, etc) > not documented in /The XƎTEX reference guide/ ? Will, Khaled, > Jonathan : can you comment on this, and will these (and any other > currently undocumented p

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks

2014-04-10 Thread Philip Taylor
Robert wrote: On 10.04.14 16:53, Philip Taylor wrote: I would like to write : \XeTeXprotrudechars = 2 \rpcode \fd \TeXtoUnicode `\- = 250 \rpcode \fd \TeXtoUnicode `\. = 150 does \TeXtoUnicode already exist, Yes, it exists: "U" (as explained here: http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2010-

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks

2014-04-10 Thread Robert
On 10.04.14 16:53, Philip Taylor wrote: Further to this thread, in a document on which I am currently working I have to write : \XeTeXprotrudechars = 2 \rpcode \fd /hyphen = 250 \rpcode \fd /period = 150 I would like to write : \XeTeXprotrudechars = 2 \rpcode \fd `\- = 250 \rpcode \fd `\. =

Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks

2014-04-10 Thread Philip Taylor
Further to this thread, in a document on which I am currently working I have to write : \XeTeXprotrudechars = 2 \rpcode \fd /hyphen = 250 \rpcode \fd /period = 150 I would like to write : \XeTeXprotrudechars = 2 \rpcode \fd `\- = 250 \rpcode \fd `\. = 150 or at worst : \XeTeXprotrudechar

[XeTeX] XeTeX (/not/ XeLaTeX) : Marginal kerning, font protrusion, hyperlinks

2014-04-10 Thread Philip Taylor
On 25/03/2014 09:03, I write (to XeTeX-Bounces, not to the correct list address) the message below. Ross Moore kindly offered an off-list answer, but basically that was suggesting to use the XeLaTeX interface to the features in which I was interested and to use TeX's debugging tools to try to asc