[XeTeX] XeTeX Digest, Vol 32, Issue 6

[Loeghmon T. Nejad]

Everyone,

Where can I get the latest Xetex and install instructions (for Debian
Linux). I am brand new to Xetex, and appreciate any help you can give
in this regards.

Thanks.

--- "R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar" <chandra at ee.uwa.edu.au> wrote:

> Will Robertson wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > I am pleased to announce version 1.12 of fontspec, which is
> available  
> > from CTAN. Only two new features, plus a couple of internal tweaks/
> 
> > bug fixes:
> > 
> >   - Support for "external" fonts that aren't installed; e.g.,
> >     \fontspec[ExternalLocation]{lmroman10-regular.otf}
> >     \fontspec[ExternalLocation=/Users/will/fonts/]{CharisSIL.otf}
> > 
> >   - The Latin Modern OpenType fonts are loaded by default;
> >     if you don't have or want them, load fontspec with the
> >     [cm-default] package option instead.
> > 
> > Download and installation instructions follow, for those who can't 
> 
> > wait for a new version of XeTeX to bundle the updates. (Who knows
> when.)
> > 
> > 
> > *** BRIEF DISCUSSION ***
> > 
> > This release marks the incorporation of LaTeX's encoding model into
>  
> > how fontspec loads fonts. It is now a requirement to install the  
> > "euenc" package that contains the EU1 font encoding. There are some
>  
> > more detailed comments (and explanations) in the euenc.pdf  
> > documentation file about what's going on here.
> > 
> > In the future, I would like to start incorporating some of
> xunicode's  
> > basic features into this encoding, unless Ross can convince us that
>  
> > it's better to forget about LaTeX's NFSS :)
> > 
> > With the TeX Gyre fonts project I just discovered (extension of the
>  
> > ghostscript fonts to OpenType and 1000-odd extra multilingual  
> > glyphs), having our own encoding to load fonts via XeTeX's external
>  
> > font mechanism becomes increasingly important.
> >    <http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/>
> > 
> > Furthermore, a new encoding could be included for faking accents as
>  
> > discussed in the thread "anti-xunicode ;-)" from July 21 this year.
> I  
> > welcome further discussion on these points.
> > 
> > *** DOWNLOAD & INSTALLATION ***
> > 
> > 1. The fontspec package is available from CTAN. It must be
> extracted  
> > from the .dtx file by running `latex fontspec.ins` on the command
> line.
> >    <http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/fontspec/>
> > 
> > Place fontspec.sty and fontspec.cfg (if you want the backwards  
> > compatibility it provides with old changes to fontspec's
> interfaces)  
> > somewhere like
> >    ~/Library/texmf/tex/xelatex/fontspec/
> > 
> > 2. The euenc package, v0.1:
> >    <http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/euenc/>
> > 
> > Place the eu1enc.def file and the lm/ subfolder somewhere like
> >    ~/Library/texmf/tex/xelatex/euenc/
> > 
> > 3. Finally, the ifxetex package, v0.2:
> >    <http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/ifxetex/>
> > 
> > ***
> > 
> > Please report problems to the list. Good luck!
> > 
> > Will
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> 
> Dear Will,
> 
> I can confirm that with the new fontspec and euenc packages a
> puzzling 
> horizontal space that preceded Indic fonts interspersed with Latin
> text has gone 
> away.  Thanks for the fix.
> 
> One question, though.  Do the Latin Modern fonts have the glyphs
> specific for 
> Romanized Sanskrit diacritical marks like:
> 
> á¹› ṝ ḷ á¹­ á¹­h ḍ ḍh ṇ á¹£ á¹
 ṃ ḥ
> 
> If so, I am unable to produce them after running through XeLaTeX.  If
> not, I 
> would have thought that standard TeX accents like \d{r} for á¹› would
> have done 
> the trick, but they do not seem to work either, even with the
> xunicode package 
> and \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}.
> 
> FYI, both LaTeX and  pdfLaTeX produce the desired output either with
> á¹› or \d{r} 
> when used together with the packages
> 
> \usepackage{lmodern}
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
> 
> I guess that I am doing something wrong because XeLaTeX should match
> what LaTeX 
> does at the very least.
> 
> Finally, with a font like Linux Libertine instead or Latin Modern I
> have no 
> problems in getting the Indic-specific diacritics above.
> 
> Any light on how to harness the power of the Latin Modern fonts for
> Indic 
> diacritics is much appreciated.
> 
> I am happy to post minimal example files if necessary.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Chandra
> 07 Nov 06
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