[XeTeX] XeTeX Digest, Vol 98, Issue 46

[Shiva Shankar]

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>   1. Re: Printer doesn't print formulas (Tobias Schoel)
>   2. Re: Printer doesn't print formulas (Mojca Miklavec)
>   3. font problem (Shiva Shankar)
>   4. Re: font problem (Zdenek Wagner)
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Tobias Schoel <liesdiedatei at googlemail.com>
> To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms <xetex at tug.org>
> Cc:
> Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 19:40:48 +0200
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Printer doesn't print formulas
> Btw: After pdf2ps, printing the .ps-file works fine.
>
> On 28.05.2012 22:14, Tobias Schoel wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> since some days ago, my printer stopped printing documents with math
>> formulas correctly. He prints until the first formula, then stops and
>> ejects the paper.
>>
>> The documents are all created with xelatex using TeX Gyre Pagella, Linux
>> Biolinum O and Asana Math.
>>
>> I haven't updated anything lately except for siunitx, which isn't
>> involved in all of that documents.
>>
>> This may sound like a printer bug, but lets look at the following
>> minimal example.
>>
>> \documentclass{minimal}
>> \usepackage{fontspec}
>> \usepackage{unicode-math}
>> \setmathfont{Asana Math}
>> \begin{document}
>> \[\int_1^2f(x)dx\]
>> \end{document}
>>
>> The printed document will be empty.
>> Replacing Asana Math by XITS Math results in \int_1^2 being printed, the
>> rest not.
>> Removing fontspec, unicode-math and \setmathfont alltogether results in
>> the whole formula being printed (in default font of course).
>>
>> It could be a printer bug as well as an OS bug: The documents are
>> printed finely on another printer feeded by Windoof.
>>
>> Where might the root of this evil lie?
>>
>> bye
>>
>> Toscho
>>
>>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com>
> To: <liesdiedatei at gmail.com>, Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other
> platforms <xetex at tug.org>
> Cc:
> Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 20:27:33 +0200
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Printer doesn't print formulas
> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Tobias Schoel
> <liesdiedatei at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > since some days ago, my printer stopped printing documents with math
> > formulas correctly. He prints until the first formula, then stops and
> ejects
> > the paper.
> >
> > The documents are all created with xelatex using TeX Gyre Pagella, Linux
> > Biolinum O and Asana Math.
> >
> > I haven't updated anything lately except for siunitx, which isn't
> involved
> > in all of that documents.
>
> The question: did you update printer drivers or OS?
>
> It is almost impossible that it would stop working without updating
> anything at all, neither TeX engines nor fonts nor printer drivers.
>
> You didn't specify what operating system you are using. One very
> ingenious example was Apple's update to OS X 10.6.8 when all
> Type1-flavoured OpenType fonts failed to print on all Macs and the
> whole system was broken. At that time printing from Cups helped.
>
> > This may sound like a printer bug, but lets look at the following minimal
> > example.
> >
> > \documentclass{minimal}
> > \usepackage{fontspec}
> > \usepackage{unicode-math}
> > \setmathfont{Asana Math}
> > \begin{document}
> > \[\int_1^2f(x)dx\]
> > \end{document}
> >
> > The printed document will be empty.
> > Replacing Asana Math by XITS Math results in \int_1^2 being printed, the
> > rest not.
>
> This only tells you that both OpenType fonts are broken. Do you get
> the same problem with TeX Gyre Pagella Math
> (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/tex-gyre-math/opentype) or
> Cambria Math (if you have access to that one)?
>
> > Removing fontspec, unicode-math and \setmathfont alltogether results in
> the
> > whole formula being printed (in default font of course).
>
> But then the old Type1 font is used.
>
> I would say that either OS is "broken" or there is some very very
> subtle problem that isn't manifested on anyone else's machine. From
> what I understood you had the same problem with LuaTeX and you didn't
> yet report if other OpenType math fonts cause problems.
>
> Mojca
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Shiva Shankar <shivably04sdst at gmail.com>
> To: <xetex at tug.org>
> Cc:
> Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 12:59:59 +0530
> Subject: [XeTeX] font problem
> Hi,
>
>
> I am using AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L3 font for typesetting sanskrit verses.
> The ligature "tryaa"(पुत्र्या) is not coming out properly. If I copy the
> same
> word in either openoffice or html(selecting AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L3 font) page
> then ligature looks correct.
> But when i typeset it using XeLaTex system then ligature looks odd.
> Why this happens?
>
>
>
> --
> Regards
> Shivashankar
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
> To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms <xetex at tug.org>
> Cc:
> Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 10:12:18 +0200
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] font problem
> 2012/5/31 Shiva Shankar <shivably04sdst at gmail.com>:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > I am using AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L3 font for typesetting sanskrit verses.
> > The ligature "tryaa"(पुत्र्या) is not coming out properly. If I copy the
> > same
> > word in either openoffice or html(selecting AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L3 font) page
> > then ligature looks correct.
> > But when i typeset it using XeLaTex system then ligature looks odd.
> > Why this happens?
> >
> The problem may be in the font. As mentioned in some documents on
> OpenType features and as found by Steve White, the Indic lookup tables
> are not described clearly in the specification and different engines
> do it in different way. When adding Devanagari to FreeSerif and
> FreeSans he several times wrote me that he had to redesign the whole
> tables because the font worked in one program but did not worke in
> another program.
>
> If you would like to try FreeSerif, look at my sample at
> http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/freefont-devanagari/ (the page contains
> the download link), or alternatively you can install TeX Live 2012
> pretest, it already contains the new version of GNU FreeFont.
> another sample can be found at http://cikitsa.blogspot.com/



Thank you sir. I will go through it.



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Shivashankar
Sriranga Digital Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd.,
Srirangapatna
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