[XeTeX] Minor updates to fontspec and xltxtra

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jun 20, 2007, at 7:08 PM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 20 juin 07 à 23:10, Nikola Lecic a écrit :
>
>> Of course, but the combination math-packages + MusiXTeX is virtually
>> non-existent, whilst XeTeX/fontspec + MusiXTeX is highly desirable  
>> and
>> sophisticated (they are together actually the best note typsetting
>> system in existence, imagine what you can do with Medieval music
>> manuscripts, etc.), so one could expect that many users would like to
>> use it.
>
> Yes, but what I meant is that \breve is defined in the LaTeX core
> itself (fontmath.ltx is read when creating the LaTeX format
> latex.fmt), not by some math package. Hence the definition of \breve
> is always in effect in LaTeX.
>
> What I suspect is that MusiXTeX redefines \breve afterwards, to no
> harm, so that this redefinition is in effect when \begin{document} is
> processed.
>
> However, fontspec.sty (without [no-math] option) redefines \breve
> within an \AtBeginDocument, so that this redefinition always
> supersedes that performed by MusiXTeX and becomes the one in use
> after \begin{document}. This must be causing the problems you have.
>
> Bruno Voisin

Howdy,

I have a ``similar'' problem when trying to use the MnSymbol package  
(for symbols that supposedly match Minion Pro). Apparently when there  
is a redefinition of \mathdollar in fontspec.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)