[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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