[XeTeX] bug in xltxtra?

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Wed Aug 4 17:56:43 CEST 2010


On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 10:51:46AM -0500, Herbert Schulz wrote:
> 
> On Aug 4, 2010, at 10:41 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 05:01:01PM +0200, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> >> Am Tue, 3 Aug 2010 09:56:45 +0200 schrieb Yves Codet:
> >> 
> >>> Hello.
> >>> 
> >>> I think I found a bug in xltxtra, which is illustrated in the attached  
> >>> file. If xltxtra is loaded, the word which is in italics in the  
> >>> section title is also in italics in the running head, but it should be  
> >>> in roman since the running head is in italics; if only fontspec is  
> >>> loaded, the running head is alright.
> >> 
> >> No the running head is not in italic, it uses \slshape. And this is
> >> the source of the problem: A current fontspec or your xltxtra
> >> redefines \em/\emph so that it switches to upshape only if the
> >> current shape is \itshape. 
> >> 
> >> \listfiles
> >> \documentclass{book}
> >> 
> >> \usepackage{fontspec} %version v2.0b, loads fontspec-patches
> >> 
> >> \begin{document}
> >> {\slshape blub \emph{bla}} %slshape + itshape
> >> 
> >> {\itshape blubb \emph{blabla}} %itshape + upshape
> >> 
> >> \end{document}
> > 
> > Since Will is busy with his thesis ;), I tried to fix this issue. The
> > attached fontspec-patches.sty seems to fix the issue for me (fontspec 2
> > only, of course), could some one else test it?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Khaled
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> Sigh... no attachment here. :-(

Well, I think I need one of those mail composers that remind you of
missed attachments :)

Regards,
 Khaled

-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer
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