[XeTeX] math in XeLaTeX at 11pt or 12pt

Ross Moore ross at ics.mq.edu.au
Fri Apr 30 15:55:50 CEST 2004


On 30/04/2004, at 11:11 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote:

>
> On 30 Apr 2004, at 1:24 pm, Ross Moore wrote:
>
>> but for 12pt:
>> [GlenLivet:~/Documents/tests] rossmoor% xdv2pdf -v xtest.xdv
>> [1
>> {fontmap: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var/dvips/config/psfonts.map}
>> {activated: 
>> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/fonts/otf/bluesky/cm/cmr12.otf} ]
>>
>>  ... which shows that math-fonts are missing.
>>
>
> ...which makes it sound as though the xetex step found the math fonts 
> installed in the OS somewhere, and didn't use TFMs. I'm a bit puzzled 
> for now.... (you did re-run xetex after removing the Textures fonts, 
> not only xdv2pdf?)

Most certainly; several times, at different sizes,
to compare the tracings.


Anyway, your latest version (.51) solves the problem:
>
> See
> 	http://www.jfkew.plus.com/XeTeX/xetex.tgz
>
> This is a new build of the xetex tool ONLY, nothing else; it has the 
> font-loading scheme suggested as (4). Try putting this in place of 
> your existing xetex (it is .pool- and .xfmt-compatible), and see if 
> that helps.

[GlenLivet:~/Documents/tests] rossmoor% xelatex -no-pdf xtest.tex
This is XeTeXk, Version 3.14159-2.1-0.51 (Web2C 7.5.2)
  %&-line parsing enabled.
(./xtest.tex
LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, 
nohyphenation, ge
rman, ngerman, spanish, french, ukenglish, dutch, loaded.
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size12.clo)) (./xtest.aux)
[1] (./xtest.aux) )
Output written on xtest.xdv (1 page, 312 bytes).
Transcript written on xtest.log.

  ...  no errors now  ...

[GlenLivet:~/Documents/tests] rossmoor% xdv2pdf -v xtest.xdv[1
{fontmap: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var/dvips/config/psfonts.map}
{activated: 
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/fonts/otf/bluesky/cm/cmmi12.otf}
{activated: 
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/fonts/otf/bluesky/cm/cmsy10.otf}
{activated: 
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/fonts/otf/bluesky/cm/cmr12.otf} ]
[GlenLivet:~/Documents/tests] rossmoor%

  ... and all the correct fonts found !


> Note that if you built any .xfmt files with the older version when it 
> wasn't picking up .tfms for the math fonts, you'll need to rebuild 
> those. But the xetex.xfmt and xelatex.xfmt files as distributed should 
> be OK.

The above test was in fact with a rebuilt  xelatex.xfmt ,
but I've tested also with the older build, and it works as well.

There's quite some difference in the sizes:

-rw-r--r--  1 rossmoor  staff  1373030 28 Apr 22:24 xelatex50.xfmt
-rw-r--r--  1 root      wheel  1630590 30 Apr 23:35 xelatex51.xfmt

The xelatex50 version was from your distro.,
whereas  xelatex51  was compiled locally.


>
> Please let me know what happens with this version. I'll hold off on 
> making this a more public update (though as this is a public list, 
> anyone who cares to is welcome to try it!) until I hear how it goes.

It looks pretty good now --- great work.


> (I'm also working on another requested feature, hoping to slip it into 
> a 0.6 release next week.)

OK -- LaTeX related ?


Cheers, and thanks

	Ross


>
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