[XeTeX] Re: [MacTeX] XeTeX 0.4 available

[Ross Moore]

On 21/04/2004, at 7:40 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> (As I've been bounced back by the XeTeX list, I'm going back to 
> MacTeX.)
>
>> I've posted a new version of XeTeX, the Unicode-based TeX for OS X; 
>> see
>>
>>         http://scripts.sil.org/xetex/
>>


Sorry about that Bruno.
I've just woken up, and seen the new messages.
Everyone's moderation bit was set, so no messages were getting
through directly.
That's fixed now, so hopefully there'll be no more such hiccups.
XeTeX at tug.org is the correct list to use.


All the best,

	Ross



>> This fixes a number of reported bugs:
>> * incorrect setting of \mathchar values
>> * height and width keywords for \picfile and \pdffile were not working
>> * fclose() error messages related to font loading
>> * excessively large PDF file generation when using TFM-based (rather
>> than AAT) fonts
>> * bad OTF encoding prevented Acrobat viewing output with TFM-based
>> fonts
>
> In addition to these, it seems that the bug in the implementation of
> \magnification in xvd2pdf has also been fixed. Thanks again.
>
> I just tried XeTeX on another situation: Lucida fonts. In both plain 
> TeX
> and LaTeX, things don't work (as soon as the font calls are changed to 
> CM,
> things become OK).
>
> I thought of several possible explanations, being unsure about any:
>
> - On my setup, the fonts are available in FFIL and LWFN formats in 
> /System
> Folder/Fonts/, and in PFB format in
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/type1/yandy/, but not in OTF
> format. Is it that XeTeX can only work with OTF fonts ? (I think not.)
>
> - With plain TeX, the fonts are called by their original Y&Y names, for
> example (taken from lcdplain.tex):
>
>     \font\tenrm=lbr at 9.5pt \font\sevenrm=lbr at 6.9pt  
> \font\fiverm=lbr
>     at 5.2pt
>
> whereas the LWFN font files have different names such as LucidBri. If I
> understood correctly, XeTeX searches first for font files, either in
> /System Folder/Fonts/ or /Library/Fonts/ or ~/Library/Fonts/, with the
> same names as the metrics, so it might be fooled here by the different
> names. Is there some equivalent scheme in XeTeX to Textures' metrics
> suitcases, or OzTeX's config files, to map TeX metrics names to Mac 
> screen
> and printer font files? Or it is simpler to just modify the font calls 
> to
> the Mac OS font names, for example:
>
>     \font\tenrm="Lucida Bright" at 9.5pt
>     \font\sevenrm="Lucida Bright" at 6.9pt
>     \font\fiverm="Lucida Bright" at 5.2pt
>
> - With LaTeX, the fonts are called by a different scheme: in TeX 'n 
> ANSI
> (LY1) encoding, for example, the LaTeX input file looks for the metrics
> hlhr8y.tfm matched by the dvips map file to the font lbr.pfb inside
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/type1/yandy/lubright/. Does 
> XeTeX
> use such mapping information, and can it use PFB files inside the teTeX
> directories? (I think not.)
>
> It is of course possible to edit the various input files to replace TeX
> "devious" font names by the corresponding Mac font names, and I don't
> really mind, but I'm just wondering if there is something obvious I'm
> doing wrong.
>
> Bruno Voisin
>
>
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