[XeTeX] XeLaTeX or LaTeXiT strange behavior

[Zdenek Wagner]

2014-03-06 11:41 GMT+01:00 Yves Gaudemer <gaudemer at ipgp.fr>:
> Thanks Herb for your suggestion and sorry for answering so late. I realise I should have been more precise in the description of my problem. I used to prepare my presentations at the university or at home, using iCloud to store them while working on them. Then I would do my Keynote presentations in class with an iPad mini or even an iPhone, for which Keynote is available. Unfortunately, the list of available fonts both in iOS AND Mac OSX is very limited and Chalboard SE seemed to be a << nice >> handwriting font for me. I thus wanted to use it also for roman math characters, like variables or function names like cos or sin. That led me to use xelatex and after playing for a while and asking for advice to various people, I put together the preamble that seems clearly unorthodox to TeX specialists like you ou Axel Kielhorn. It is clear that I will never be able to use XITS Math or Asana Math on my Ipad or iPhone, if my presentations are in Keynote format. One solution would be to export them to pdf before sending them to the iOS devices. The other solution is to build my presentations on my iMac on which LaTeXiT accepts my preamble. I'll probably stick to the latter.
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I prepare my presentations in LaTeX or XeLaTeX and generate PDF. I can
then view this PDF on iPad that can be connected to the data projector
(depending on what is available) via a cable or via Air Drop. There
are several Apps that can view PDF on iPad. Free Adobe Reader allows
you not only to view PDF as full screen slides but it offers tools to
draw by hand to the file. It is a nice feature if you have to answer
questions and you would like to add some drawing. iCloud should be
able to open the PDF file in Adobe Reader (I work in Linux, so I
usually send the file via Dropbox). If I want to show TeX running, I
take my Raspberry Pi and connect by iSSH from my iPad to it. I used
this combination when giving lectures on LaTeX, showing prepared
slides from iPad and connecting to Raspberry to show how it runs.

> Cheers, Yves
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