[XeTeX] Missing char, missing footnote (source attached)

Karljurgen Feuerherm kfeuerherm at wlu.ca
Tue Oct 11 21:17:42 CEST 2011


Sigh. When I emailed it, all the characters were visible in the email, but I see that by the time my post got here, they'd been stripped. So this time, I've attached the source.

Sorry 'bout that!

KF


Karljürgen G. Feuerherm, PhD
Undergraduate Advisor
Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies
Wilfrid Laurier University
75 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5
Tel. (519) 884-1970 x3193
Fax (519) 883-0991 (ATTN Arch. & Classics)




>>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at  2:42 PM, in message <4E9455BB.94AB.00CC.0 at wlu.ca>,
"Karljurgen Feuerherm" <kfeuerherm at wlu.ca> wrote: 
> Hello,
> 
> (1) I have a font into which I have inserted cuneiform characters (U+12000 
> range). In my TeXShop source, all my characters display fine. But when I 
> compile, one of them comes out as a box (see the line in the table beginning 
> with IG). Can anyone tell me what is happening?
> 
> (2) The footnote has vanished. I suppose that means footnotes aren't legal 
> in tables of this type... Can someone suggest a solution to this?
> 
> Many thanks for whatever help anyone can offer! Source follows, font is 
> attached.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> KF
> -------
> \documentclass[12pt,letterpaper,twoside]{book}
> 
> \usepackage{fontspec,xltxtra}
> \usepackage{geometry}
> \usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
> \usepackage{sectsty}
> \usepackage{graphics}
> \usepackage{tikz-qtree}
> \usetikzlibrary{positioning}
> \newcommand{\lfam}[1]{\textsc{#1}}
> \usepackage{rotating}
> \usepackage{xstring}
> \usepackage{url}
> \usepackage{multirow}
> \usepackage{multicol}
> \usepackage{supertabular}
> \usepackage{graphicx}
> 
> \geometry{letterpaper}
> % FONTS
> \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
> \setromanfont [Ligatures={Common}]{Linux Libertine}
> \setsansfont[Scale=MatchLowercase]{Linux Biolinum}
> % Set up for Akkadian
> \newfont{\obl}{"OldBab KF" at 24 pt}
> \newfont{\ob}{"OldBab KF"}
> \newfont{\obm}{"OldBab KF" at 18pt}
> 
> \newcommand{\bktitle}[1]{\textit{#1}}
> \newcommand{\fakesc}[1]{{\addfontfeatures{FakeStretch=1.1092,FakeBold=1.0,Sc
> ale=0.71}\MakeUppercase{#1}}}
> \newcommand{\akk}[1]{{\sffamily\textit{#1}}}
> \newcommand{\smn}[1]{{\sffamily\fakesc{#1}}}
> \newcommand{\dtm}[1]{{\sffamily\fakesuperscript{#1}}}
> \newcommand{\csign}[1]{{\sffamily\uppercase{#1}}}
> \newcommand{\tabref}[1]{Table~\ref{#1}}
> 
> \makeindex
> 
> \begin{document}
> 	\chapter{Chapter}
> 		\section*{Exercises}
> 			\begin{enumerate}
> 				\item Learn the cuneiform characters, names, and interpretations in 
> \tabref{cunlist04}.
> 					\begin{table}
> 						\begin{center}
> 							\begin{tabular}[t]{|l|l|p{0.75in}|p{1.5in}|p{1.5in}|}
> 								\hline
> 								Name & Frequency & Sign & Syllabic Readings & Logographic Readings \\
> 								\hline
> 								\csign{am} & 33 & {\obm{}} & \akk{am}~(33) & \\
> 								\hline
> 								\csign{ib} & 30 & {\obm{}} & \akk{ip}~(14), \akk{ib}~(10), \akk{ep}~(5), 
> \akk{eb}~(1)  & \\
> 								\hline
> 								\csign{bad} & 29 & {\obm{}} &  \akk{be}~(29)& \\
> 								\hline
> 								\csign{iš} & 29 &  {\obm{}} & \akk{iš}~(29) & \\
> 								\hline
> 								\csign{ir} & 28 &  {\obm{}} & \akk{ir}~(15), \akk{er}~(13) & \\
> 								\hline
> 								\csign{el} & 28 &  {\obm{}} & \akk{el}~(28) & \\
> 								\hline
> 								\csign{še} & 27 &  {\obm{}} & \akk{še}~(7) & 
> \smn{še}~=~\akk{šeʾum}\footnote{There is
> 									some evidence to suggest that the reading of \smn{še} is actually \akk{ûm}, 
> but the
> 									preference of \bktitle{CDA} has been followed here.}\\
> 								\hline
> 								\csign{ul} & 27 &  {\obm{}} & \akk{ul}~(27) & \\
> 								\hline
> 								\csign{ig} & 26 &  {\obm{}} & \akk{ik}~(15), \akk{iq}~(10), \akk{ig}~(1) & 
> \dtm{giš}\smn{ig}~=~\akk{daltum} \\
> 								\hline
> 								\csign{um} & 26  & {\obm{}} & \akk{um}~(26) & \\
> 								\hline
> 							\end{tabular}
> 						\end{center}
> 						\caption{Cuneiform character list 4}\label{cunlist04}
> 					\end{table}
> 			\end{enumerate}			
> \end{document}
> 
> 
> Karljürgen G. Feuerherm, PhD
> Undergraduate Advisor
> Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies
> Wilfrid Laurier University
> 75 University Avenue West
> Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5
> Tel. (519) 884-1970 x3193
> Fax (519) 883-0991 (ATTN Arch. & Classics)

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