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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Hi</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Thanks for putting me on to WinRAR - I've got
a decompression utility (Conversions Plus) that recognizes all the archives I've
encountered so far, but this is my first experience of .bz2.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">I wonder if the concept of adjusting spacing
between fonts could be widened to include e.g. customized 'kerning' pairs
between an italic character and adjacent roman punctuation in an ordinary
roman-alphabet font. Only today someone pointed out that in my version of
Baskerville an italic 'f' followed by a roman comma had an ugly wide gap, and
this sort of thing happens all the time when one is using italic to highlight a
word or phrase (or of course a book title), with a piece of roman punctuation
immediately after the italic: the spacing often looks a little wrong
(either too tight or too wide) and one would like to be able to give TeX a
list of appropriate adjustments (ideally a list of specific character pairs
rather than just what to do when one font ends and another one begins). It
occurred to me that what you have done to improve the transition between Chinese
and English might eventually be adapted to achieve this.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Best</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">John</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=yindian@gmail.com href="mailto:yindian@gmail.com">Yin Dian</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=xetex@tug.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, September 01, 2007 1:54
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> JunkEmail: Re: [XeTeX] A general
suggetion for managing the font selectionformixed-language document</DIV>
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<DIV>Hi,</DIV>
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<DIV>You can check out the svn trunk. I could open the archive using WinRAR on
Windows XP.</DIV>
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<DIV>YIN Dian<BR><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 9/1/07, <B class=gmail_sendername>John Was</B>
<<A href="mailto:john.was@ntlworld.com">john.was@ntlworld.com</A>>
wrote:</SPAN>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">The Chinese package looks
excellent. My computer (Windows XP) won't recognize the .bz2 files on
the website. How do I get at the contents (presumably a collection of
.TEX or .STY files)? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial"><B>From:</B> <A
title=yindian@gmail.com
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href="mailto:yindian@gmail.com" target=_blank>Yin Dian</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=xetex@tug.org
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href="mailto:xetex@tug.org" target=_blank>Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X
and other platforms</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, September 01, 2007
11:00 AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> JunkEmail: Re: [XeTeX] A
general suggetion for managing the font selection formixed-language
document</DIV>
<DIV><BR> </DIV>Hi all,<BR><BR>I agree that it's a better idea not to
implement this feature in fontspec but in other packages, where the
character class scheme may be totally redefined discarding the effort of
fontspec. In fact, the package "zhspacing" for Chinese document spacing
adjustment is almost ready for use now. You can find out more info on the
BBS of USTC and SMTH in Chinese. The project homepage is <A
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="http://code.google.com/p/zhspacing/"
target=_blank>http://code.google.com/p/zhspacing/</A>.
HTH.<BR><BR>Regards.<BR><BR>YIN Dian<BR><BR>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 9/1/07, <B class=gmail_sendername>Will
Robertson</B> < <A
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href="mailto:wspr81@gmail.com" target=_blank>wspr81@gmail.com</A>>
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01/09/2007, at 17:44 , Song Zhiwei wrote: <BR><BR>> Many users is
going to manage the font selection for mixed-language <BR>> document.
This can be done by adding a feature of "Unicode" for<BR>> \fontsec
like the feature of "Size".<BR><BR>I'm happy to support the addition of
such features to fontspec but I<BR>wonder if a new package would be a
better idea (there's no reason<BR>this couldn't hook into the fontspec
interface, though).<BR><BR>There's additional stuff that falls into the
category of this sort of<BR>feature that doesn't make so much sense in
fontspec -- for example, <BR>tuning the spacing around punctuation.
Perhaps the upcoming jspacing<BR>(?) package will do this sort of
thing.<BR><BR>Sadly I don't have time to work on this new interface but
I<BR>definitely like the
idea.<BR><BR>Will<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>XeTeX
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