François, On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 7:32 PM, François Patte <francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Le 09/09/2012 19:04, Steve White a écrit : >> François, >> >> On my standard-distribution Ubuntu system, it's 'FakeSlant' rather >> than 'AutoFakeSlant'. >> >> With that change to your file, I get the attached. Is this what you >> intended? > > No, "AutoFakeSlant" comes from the cut and paste I have made from an > existing file. What I wanted to say is that I don't understand why > Zdének says that some ligatures are missing: kta, pta.... > Oh. I think he was referring to FreeSans, not FreeSerif. And he's right -- I had added some of those letters earlier this year, but never finished the job.
> Difference between FakeSlant and AutoFakeSlant seems to be (this is not > so much documented): > > FakeSlant the whole text is slanted > I don't have AutoFakeSlant... > AutoFakeSlant: slanted text comes with the latex commands \textit{...} > or {\itshape ...} > > Curiously, if you use FakeSlant, the whole text is slanted and there are > question marks for any text you put in \textit{....} > I think there should just be a \slant function, which simply applys a skew operator to everything in it. This would be fine for most purposes. Why call it "fake"? It would be a fake italic, but not a fake *slant*. Cheers! -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex