[XeTeX] Fwd: [OS X TeX] meaning of Warning

[Ross Moore]

This message thread really belongs here.
Does someone know what is needed to suppress
this Font warning message, or whether there
is really a problem ?

That'll save me some detective work.  :-)



Begin forwarded message:

> From: Alex Hamann <Alexander.Hamann at stud-mail.uni-wuerzburg.de>
> Date: 26 April 2006 8:04:33 AM
> To: "TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List" <MacOSX-TeX at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] meaning of Warning
> Reply-To: "TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List" <MacOSX- 
> TeX at email.esm.psu.edu>
>
> Hi Ross,
> thank you for the quick answer.
>
>
> On 25.04.2006, at 15:28, Ross Moore wrote:
>
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> On 26/04/2006, at 5:40 AM, Alex Hamann wrote:
>>
>>> Could somebody explain me what the following warnings are  
>>> supposed to mean?
>>>
>>>
>>> LaTeX Font Warning: Encoding `OT1' has changed to `U' for symbol  
>>> font
>>> (Font)              `operators' in the math version `normal' on  
>>> input line 21.
>>>
>>> LaTeX Font Warning: Encoding `OT1' has changed to `U' for symbol  
>>> font
>>> (Font)              `operators' in the math version `bold' on  
>>> input line 21.
>>>
>>
>> These mean that you have been playing around with fonts for your  
>> document,
>> at least for mathematical symbols, and haven't done it quite right.
>>
>> Do you see anything wrong in the final PDF. Examine where bold  
>> mathematical
>> symbols are used. Does anything look wrong ?
>> e.g. the symbols themselves (wrong font?) or the spacing around them,
>> or the position of superscripts or subscripts?
>>
>> It may be that there is no visible effect, this time.
>>
> No visible effect. The pdf looks fine.
>
>
>> To tell you how to "do it right" we would need to see what your
>> preamble looks like, where you are declaring fonts for use
>> in Mathematics.
>>
> This is my preamble:
>
> \documentclass[12pt, oneside]{article}
> \pagestyle{plain}
> \usepackage{setspace}
> \usepackage[applemac]{inputenc}
> \usepackage[left=30mm,top=25mm,bottom=2cm,right=30mm]{geometry}
> \usepackage[marginal]{footmisc}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}	
> \newfontinstance\fonta{Gentium}
> %\newcommand\basetext{\fonta\fontsize{12}{14}\selectfont}
> \usepackage{sectsty}
> \usepackage[sort&compress]{natbib}
> \bibpunct{(}{)}{,}{a}{:}{,}
> \bibliographystyle{plainnat}
> \citestyle{}
>
> the lines from "\usepackage{fontspec}" to "%\newcommand\basetext 
> {\fonta\fontsize{12}{14}\selectfont}" have been suggested to me  
> from the mailing list (therefore I am not even sure what they do).  
> I do not intend to include any Mathematics in my document. I do  
> want, however, to include Gentium fonts since I need a unicode font  
> (works fine in the output).
>
>>
>> A curiosity is "why is the default encoding 'U'"?
>> Are you using XeTeX ?
>>
> I use XeTex, that´s correct. Besides, is there an easy way to  
> understand what the warnings refer to? In other words: when the  
> warning refers to "line xy" is there another way than starting to  
> count the lines in the output in order to understand where the  
> problem could be found in the pdf (I am using TexShop)?
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance,
>>> Alex
>>
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> 	Ross
>>
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Ross Moore                                         ross at maths.mq.edu.au
Mathematics Department                             office: E7A-419
Macquarie University                               tel: +61 +2 9850 8955
Sydney, Australia  2109                            fax: +61 +2 9850 8114
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