[XeTeX] XeTeX and diacritics
Jonathan Kew
jonathan_kew at sil.org
Mon Mar 24 21:32:55 CET 2008
On 24 Mar 2008, at 8:04 pm, Arash Zeini wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Daniel Stender <uzstzm at uni-bonn.de>
> To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms <xetex at tug.org>
> Sent: Monday, 24 March, 2008 7:38:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX and diacritics
>
>>> It is very strange that this change makes the difference.
>>> There must be more going on --- such as, one of your
>>> packages
>>> making a change to how \footnotesize works.
>>>
>>> Would you post a complete example which includes the full
>>> LaTeX preamble that you are using, and any non-standard
>>> class
>>> or package files.
>
>> It's a funny phenomenon, isn't it? I've attached a demo
>> file
>> and the resulting pdf.
>>
>> Daniel stender
>
> Just to confirm a similar behaviour in XeTeX:
> I use ʾ\b{P}-š in LaTeX to produce an Alif-underlined P-hyphen-š.
> The same command in XeTeX produces the same result with the
> difference of a duplicated hyphen. I had to enclose the hyphen in
> {} to get rid of the problem. Is there a relationship between these
> phenomena?
As I just asked Daniel: what version of XeTeX are you running --
specifically, 0.996 as shipped on TeX Live 2007 DVDs, or later? I'm
hoping this is an already-fixed bug!
JK
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