[XeTeX] linux libertine and number

Tobias Schoel liesdiedatei at googlemail.com
Fri Dec 31 16:13:23 CET 2010


Could you please calm down. Nobody was hurt, just a little misunderstanding.

Am 31.12.2010 15:35, schrieb Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd):
>
>
> Ulrike Fischer wrote:
>
>> And please don't repeat that you "was not in any
>> way trying to suggest that this is a general or universal
>> solution.". You _did_ sent the first example without any code which
>> restricted the effect of the catcodes changes and without any
>> warnings about side-effects. This was the posting I commented as
>> this is not my idea of an helpful answer.
>
> As is so often the case, a suggestion (intended to be
> helpful) becomes a protracted argument from which
> the original questioner is effectively excluded. But
> as I dislike being accused of something on a fallacious
> basis, let me re-cite the original correspondence :
>
> François (1) :
>
>> I would like to know why the numbers are different if typed with or
>> without the $ sign:
>>
>> Using \setmainfont{Linux Libertine O} 7 is smaller than $7$
>>
>> Is it possible to correct this? I want the same size (ie. $7$)
>>
>> Of course I can always write $7$, but is there another way.
>
> François (2) :
>
>> Thanks for this answer. It is not too nice if you have to write:
>>
>> Multiply 5 by 7: $7\times 5 = 35$
>
> Self (1) :
>
>> Bonjour, François : is this perhaps the sort of
>> thing you had in mind ?
>>
>> \documentclass {minimal}
>> \usepackage {fontspec}
>> \setmainfont {Linux Libertine O}
>> \begin {document}
>> Multiply 5 by 7: $7\times 5 = 35$
>>
>> \catcode `\5 = \active
>> \catcode `\7 = \active
>> \def 5{\ifmmode \string 5 \else $5$\fi}
>> \def 7{\ifmmode \string 7 \else $7$\fi}
>> Multiply 5 by 7: $7\times 5 = 35$
>>
>> \end {document}
>>
>> Obviously you can \catcode and \def all digits
>> from zero to nine in a simple loop to cope with
>> the general case.
>
> My answer thus addressed François' problem /as stated/ :
> it did not suggest that it was a solution to such
> problems in general (although I can see that it /might/
> be possible to misinterpret the last paragraph : when
> I spoke of "the general case", I was referring to the
> case of all the digits from zero to nine, not to the
> entire class of problems of which François' was one
> example).
>
> Yes, I completely agree that "[I] sent the first
> example without any code which restricted the
> effect of the catcodes changes and without any
> warnings about side-effects.", but I also assumed
> that my answer would be interpreted within the context
> of the question being asked, and not within the context
> of such questions in general.
>
> ** Phil.
>
>
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