[XeTeX] Greek letterspacing with soul

[John Was]

Hello

Until someone works out how to fix this in SOUL, you could try the 
following.

In your file header give:

\def \littlespace{\kern .1em}

\def \letterspace #1{#1\littlespace\letterspace}

\def \endletterspace \littlespace \letterspace{}



Then to get 10% letter-spaced text give e.g.:





ἡ τοῦ \letteerspace δυνάμει\ ὄντος\ ἐντελέχεια,\ ᾗ\ τοιοῦτον, 
κίνησίς\endletterspace\ ἐστιν



Note that you have to give the spaces explicitly with \



This isn't as versatile as SOUL - it won't hyphenate - but it might do until 
something better turns up. If you find \letterspace \endlettersrpace too 
tedious to type, just give something briefer in the definitions:  e.g. 
\def\ls and \def\els



If you want something other than 10% letterspacing, then just change .1em in 
the above to whatever you need.



John








----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pablo Rodríguez" <oinos at web.de>
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: 24 May 2010 11:30
Subject: [XeTeX] Greek letterspacing with soul


> Hi there,
>
> I want to achieve a kind of emphasizing which used in Greek through 
> letterspacing.
>
> I have tried the LetterSpace and WordSpace properties, but I don't think 
> they are intended for this.
>
> The proper way seems to be the \so command from the soul package. But 
> there is a weird issue with Greek glyphs.
>
> Here you have the code:
>
>   \documentclass[10pt]{book}
>   \usepackage{fontspec}
>   \setmainfont{Theano Didot}
>   \usepackage{polyglossia}
>   \setdefaultlanguage{english}
>   \setotherlanguage[variant=ancient]{greek}
>   \usepackage{soul}
>   \begin{document}
>   This is only a \so{test}.
>
>   “Mind” is the English translation for \foreignlanguage{greek
>   {\so{νοῦς}}.
>
>   “Mind” is the English translation for \foreignlanguage{greek}
>   {\so{νοῦς,}}.
>   \end{document}
>
> Letterspacing works fine with Latin glyphs. With Greek glyphs there is 
> something relly weird (and it makes no difference if I use soulutf8 
> instead of soul): there is no text after punctuation characters, so if 
> there is no punctuation character, there is no letterspaced text.
>
> Does anyone know how to fix this?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Pablo
>
>
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