[XeTeX] XeTeXinterchartokenstate

[John Was]

Dear François

Many thanks for that.  I'm in the middle of a job so very  nervous about 
playing about with the installation.  But I'll see what happens with the 
replacement binary.

Best wishes


John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "François Charette" <firmicus at ankabut.net>
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] XeTeXinterchartokenstate


> John Was a écrit :
>> Hello
>>
>> I wanted to try out the interchartoken feature but I'm getting
>> 'unknown control sequence' messages with the following simple
>> experiment (designed to bring a Greek asper closer to a capital A):
>>
>> \XeTeXinterchartokenstate = 1
>> \XeTeXcharclass `\῾ 11
>> \XeTeXcharclass `\A 13
>> \XeTeXinterchartoks 11 13 = {\kern -0.05em}
>>
>> All three of these control sequences are unrecognized.
>>
>> My installation is from the TeXLive2007 disk so is presumably out of
>> date, though I tremble at the thought of reinstalling the SVN version
>> from scratch.  Is there some specific file that I can/should alter or
>> replace?
> As you suspect, the interchartoken features require xetex v0.997. SVN
> compilation and installation is not hard on Linux or Mac, but probably
> more difficult on Windows. Instead I guess you can replace your xetex
> binary with this one:
>    ftp://akagi.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/pub/TeX/win32/xetex-dev-w32.tar.bz2
> Windows users can probably confirm whether this would work.
>
> FC
>
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