[XeTeX] Bug report \XeLaTeX and \XeTeX logos

Peter Dyballa Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE
Sun Jan 4 23:59:23 CET 2009


Hello!

The \XeLaTeX and the \XeTeX logos from xltxtra.sty are typeset  
differently, on the same line, with the same font. Particularly the  
difference (or kerning) between the first X and the lowered Ǝ (LATIN  
CAPITAL LETTER REVERSED E, U+018E, here, in the logo actually  
reversed by rotating thanks to graphicx package, where it's real  
funny when slanted or italic or handwritten):

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In the first instance the kerning seems to be switched off, in the  
reprise it's on and OK. My LOG file tells:

  *File List*
  article.cls    2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
   size12.clo    2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX file (size option)
  xltxtra.sty    2008/07/29 v0.4 Improvements for the "XeLaTeX" format
  ifxetex.sty    2006/08/21 v0.3 Provides ifxetex conditional
graphicx.sty    1999/02/16 v1.0f Enhanced LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
   keyval.sty    1999/03/16 v1.13 key=value parser (DPC)
graphics.sty    2006/02/20 v1.0o Standard LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
     trig.sty    1999/03/16 v1.09 sin cos tan (DPC)
graphics.cfg    2007/01/18 v1.5 graphics configuration of teTeX/TeXLive
    xetex.def    2006/08/10 v0.92 LaTeX color/graphics driver for  
XeTeX (RRM, mod. JK)
fontspec.sty    2008/08/09 v1.18 Advanced font selection for XeLaTeX
     calc.sty    2005/08/06 v4.2 Infix arithmetic (KKT,FJ)
  xkeyval.sty    2008/08/13 v2.6a package option processing (HA)
  xkeyval.tex    2008/08/13 v2.6a key=value parser (HA)
  fontenc.sty
   eu1enc.def    2008/03/08 v0.1d Experimental unicode font encoding
   eu1lmr.fd    2007/01/14 v1.3 Font defs for Latin Modern
fontspec.cfg
xunicode.sty    2008/02/08 v0.91 provides access to latin accents and  
many other characters in Unicode lower plane
     etex.sty    1998/03/26 v2.0 eTeX basic definition package (PEB)
fixltx2e.sty    2006/03/24 v1.1n fixes to LaTeX


The code I used is:

	\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
	  \usepackage{xltxtra}
	  \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
	%  \setromanfont{Baskerville}
	%  \setromanfont[ItalicFont={HiraMinPro-W3:+ital},BoldItalicFont= 
{HiraMinPro-W6:+ital},BoldFont={HiraMinPro-W6}]{HiraMinPro-W3}
	%  \setromanfont[ItalicFont={HiraKakuPro-W3:+ital},BoldFont= 
{HiraKakuPro-W6},BoldItalicFont={HiraKakuPro-W6:+ital}]{HiraKakuPro-W3}
	  \setromanfont{ヒラギノ丸ゴ Pro W4}	% Hiragino Maru Gothic Pro
	
	\listfiles
	\begin{document}
	
	habitudes et un certain entre auteurs et \XeTeX\ éditeurs. \XeTeX
	
	habitudes et un certain entre auteurs et \XeLaTeX\ éditeurs.  \XeLaTeX
	
	habitudes et un \textit{certain} entre \textbf{auteurs} et \XeLaTeX\  
\textbf{\itshape éditeurs}. \XeLaTeX\
	
	\end{document}

Baskerville does not show the effect, and also some other Latin  
script fonts, neither do Korean or Chinese fonts. The Japanese  
Hiragino fonts show it, except Osaka. (They're all fonts in Mac OS  
X.) And the last line *only* shows the effect when I use a font that  
does not have all the variants.

Mac OS X 10.4.11, TeX Live 2008 from MacTeX August 2008. This is  
XeTeXk, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.999.6 (Web2C 7.5.7)

--
Greetings

   Pete

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for  
lists of "Ten Best."
				– H. Allen Smith





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