[XeTeX] Sigla for handscripts

Benjamin Koppe Benjamin.Koppe at gmx.de
Wed Feb 27 17:54:19 CET 2008 

Am 27.02.2008 um 17:45 schrieb Benjamin Koppe:

> Am 27.02.2008 um 14:12 schrieb Jonathan Kew:
>
>>
>> On 27 Feb 2008, at 12:24 pm, Benjamin Koppe wrote:
>>
>>> I found it is Helvetica, what he computer uses, because he won't fin
>>> the od scripts...:
>>>
>>> ...
>>> *** font activation failed (status=0): yfrak.pfb
>>>
>>> *** font yfrak (yfrak-Regular: file 'yfrak.pfb') not found
>>>
>>> *** font yfrak (yfrak.pfb) not found, will substitute Helvetica  
>>> glyphs
>>> exception: SimplePSInterpreterException  reason: condition in if is
>>> not a boolean
>>>
>>> *** font activation failed (status=0): yswab.pfb
>>>
>>> *** font yswab (yswab-Regular: file 'yswab.pfb') not found
>>>
>>> *** font yswab (yswab.pfb) not found, will substitute Helvetica  
>>> glyphs
>>> )
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Do fontspec and friends switch off other fonts? Or why is it this  
>>> font
>>> is not found anymore?
>>
>> Apparently these are old PFB-format PostScript fonts. xdv2pdf (being
>> based on Mac OS X graphics) can't use those directly, so it attempts
>> to convert them to an sfnt-packaged format, but this conversion is
>> failing.
>>
>> The simplest solution is probably to use the xdvipdfmx driver
>> instead. If you're using TeXShop, enable the "xelatex-xdvipdfmx"
>> engine (move it from ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/Inactive/XeTeX/ 
>> XeLaTeX-
>> xdvipdfmx.engine to the main Engines folder) and choose this in place
>> of the default XeLaTeX engine.
>>
>> JK
>>
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>
>
>
> Okay, I copied the file in the Engines Folder, but I don't know how  
> to choose it then. Is this something I do in TeXShop or do I go to  
> the command line?
> I found out that this problem doesn't occur on my girfriend's  
> Windows machine, so I guess the windows version uses xdvipdfmx as  
> default...?
> What's the disadvantage of xdvipdfmx over xdv2pdf, i.e. why is  
> xdv2pdf default on the mac?
>
> As I did not choose xdvipdfmx there is yet no change. I made some  
> examples, one printing the characters I like and one with the whole  
> unicode-xelatex stuff...
>
> The ol style:
> \documentclass{scrartcl}
>
> \usepackage{yfonts}
>
>
> \begin{document}
> \textfrak{M}
> \textswab{G}
> \end{document}
>
>
> And now the new style which doesn't work as I want:
> TeXXeTstate=1 %braucht er für \beginR und \endR
> \documentclass{scrartcl}
>
> \usepackage{fontspec}% provides font selecting commands
> \usepackage{xunicode}% provides unicode character macros
> \usepackage{xltxtra} % provides some fixes/extras
>
> \defaultfontfeatures{Scale=MatchLowercase}
> \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
> \setmainfont{Arial}
> \setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Times New Roman}
> \setsansfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Skia}
> \setmonofont{Courier}
> \newfontfamily{\grk}    [Scale=MatchLowercase]{Gentium} % pick a  
> font for Greek
> \newfontfamily{\heb}{Ezra SIL} % and one for Hebrew
> \usepackage{yfonts}
>
>
> \begin{document}
> öäüß\\
> {\grk Καλημέρα κόσμε   ὶ} \\
> \textfrak{M}
> \textswab{G}
> {\heb\beginR בֵניָמִן\endR}
>  {\heb\beginR שלום עולם\endR}
> \end{document}
>
> This is its console output:
>
> This is XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996 (Web2C 7.5.6)
> %&-line parsing enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./test.tex
> LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
> Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax,  
> dumylang, noh
> yphenation, arabic, basque, bulgarian, coptic, welsh, czech, slovak,  
> german, ng
> erman, danish, esperanto, spanish, catalan, galician, estonian,  
> farsi, finnish,
> french, greek, monogreek, ancientgreek, croatian, hungarian,  
> interlingua, ibyc
> us, indonesian, icelandic, italian, latin, mongolian, dutch, norsk,  
> polish, por
> tuguese, pinyin, romanian, russian, slovenian, uppersorbian,  
> serbian, swedish,
> turkish, ukenglish, ukrainian, loaded.
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/koma-script/scrartcl.cls
> Document Class: scrartcl 2006/07/30 v2.95b KOMA-Script document  
> class (article)
>
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/koma-script/scrkbase.sty
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/koma-script/scrlfile.sty
> Package scrlfile, 2006/03/28 v2.95 KOMA-Script package (loading files)
>                  Copyright (C) Markus Kohm
>
> ) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty))
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size11.clo)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/koma-script/typearea.sty
> Package typearea, 2006/07/30 v2.95b KOMA-Script package (type area)
>                  Copyright (C) Frank Neukam, 1992-1994
>                  Copyright (C) Markus Kohm, 1994-2002
>
> )) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/fontspec/ 
> fontspec.sty
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ifxetex/ifxetex.sty)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/calc.sty)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xkeyval/xkeyval.sty
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xkeyval/xkeyval.tex))
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/lm/lmodern.sty)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/euenc/eu1enc.def)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/euenc/lm/eu1lmr.fd))
> fontspec.cfg loaded.
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/fontspec/ 
> fontspec.cfg))
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xunicode/xunicode.sty)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xltxtra/xltxtra.sty
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/tex/latex/config/graphics.cfg)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/graphics/xetex.def)))
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/etex/etex.sty)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/fixltx2e.sty))
> (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/yfonts/yfonts.sty) (./ 
> test.aux)
> [1] (./test.aux)exception: SimplePSInterpreterException  reason:  
> condition in if is not a boolean
>
> *** font activation failed (status=0): yfrak.pfb
>
> *** font yfrak (yfrak-Regular: file 'yfrak.pfb') not found
>
> *** font yfrak (yfrak.pfb) not found, will substitute Helvetica glyphs
> exception: SimplePSInterpreterException  reason: condition in if is  
> not a boolean
>
> *** font activation failed (status=0): yswab.pfb
>
> *** font yswab (yswab-Regular: file 'yswab.pfb') not found
>
> *** font yswab (yswab.pfb) not found, will substitute Helvetica glyphs
> )
> Output written on test.pdf (1 page).
> Transcript written on test.log.
>
> And here are the pdfs where you can see the results:
>
> <test.pdf>
>
>
> I hope I have provided you with all info you need...
>
> btw: I guess I'll have to install bidi and polyglossa t have a nicer  
> Hebrew output, right?
>
> Thanks
> De Benny_______________________________________________
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For some reason the 2n pdf was not included. It contains 2 siga as I'd  
like them to look:
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