[XeTeX] XeTeX 0.92 available

[Jonathan Kew]

On 9 Mar 2005, at 11:53 am, Otared Kavian wrote:

>> and do you have something like Fink or DarwinPorts that might be 
>> providing alternate versions of standard commands?
>
> Yes I have Fink installed (and with this I have also findutils version 
> 4.1.20-2).
>
>>
>> If you enter "which find" in Terminal, what does it report?
>
> it says:
> /sw/bin/find
>
> that is the version installed with fink, if I am not wrong.

Yes, that's Fink's command, and its options must not be completely 
compatible with Apple's. I'll modify xdv2pdf so as to explicitly use 
"/usr/bin/find" instead of just "find", and that should make this 
message go away. Meanwhile, you can safely ignore it--it's just trying 
to clean up any empty files that might have been left in a cache, as a 
result of failed Type 1 font conversions. AFAIK, Dalyoung seems to be 
the only person running into that issue.

> A last point, concerning the new version 0.92:
> the horizontal spacing of the words and punctuation marks in 
> Right-to-Left environment with XeConTeXt has a strange behaviour.
> The spacing of words seems now correct (though I hadn't time to make 
> extensive testing), but the "period" at the end of the *first* 
> sentence (and only this one...) goes systematically into the first 
> word of the next sentence. Since this does not happen with the plain 
> XeTeX, it seems that the bug comes from the format XeConteXt.

I'll try to look out for this, but if it's specifically a ConTeXt issue 
then I don't know much about it... perhaps the way it's applying 
\beginR...\endR needs some adjustment. I haven't found time to start 
learning ConTeXt as yet, unfortunately, although it certainly looks 
interesting and powerful.

JK