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> Am Thu, 27 Jun 2019 23:03:09 +0000 schrieb Ross Moore:<br class="">
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>>> there is probably something wrong with XeLaTeX, but I cannot find what.<br class="">
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>> The difference between xetex and xelatex is the font:<br class="">
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>> I’m sorry but I don’t understand this as an answer.<br class="">
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> It wasn't meant as an answer. I only explained why you get different<br class="">
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<div>OK. But that just emphasises that there is a bug lurking here.</div>
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<div class="">> xetex has a different typesetting engine: it doesn't handle chars<br class="">
> but words as units.<br class="">
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> See page 31 here <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/jOdnCWLVn6iDMlXKfxOK2u?domain=xml.web.cern.ch" class="">
http://xml.web.cern.ch/XML/lgc2/xetexmain.pdf</a>.<br class="">
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> So I'm not really surprised that you get the y, I was more suprised<br class="">
> that it doesn't happen with legacy fonts - there it seem to switch<br class="">
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Yes, the bug arises because of how xetex collects a series of characters <br class="">
to be "shaped" by an opentype font, rather than the core tex engine <br class="">
handling each character individually. So at the point when \lastkern is <br class="">
encountered, the letter A has not yet been appended to the current node <br class="">
list being built; it is "pending" in the buffer of characters that will <br class="">
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<div>OK, I understand that now.</div>
<div>In fact I was think of surmising that such a mechanism could be in play.</div>
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<div>But surely this means that XeTeX's “current list” should be that buffer, not TeX’s usual horizontal list.</div>
<div>So \lastkern , \lastpenalty and \lastskip should be getting their values from there.</div>
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<div>Alternatively, and perhaps equivalently, just set all these to zero whenever we are adding characters </div>
<div>to this “pending” buffer. Only when the words are ready to be put back into the horizontal list, </div>
<div>should these be set back to what is there, if those values are still relevant to any typesetting tasks </div>
<div>at the beginning of that resulting word.</div>
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Still, I would regard this as a bug that we ought to fix. I imagine <br class="">
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<div>Yes, I would think so.</div>
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<div>BTW, this is relevant to my Tagged PDF work, as it must insert extra literal material via \special commands.</div>
<div>To ensure the same typesetting as without those tags, it is frequently necessary to transfer that previous</div>
<div>\skip , \kern or \penalty to come *after* the \special and nullify the one before it.</div>
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<div>So far this is only developed for pdfTeX, but in future we’ll want it for XeTeX too.</div>
<div>Discovering this difference now, and fixing it, will surely avoid a headache when that time comes.</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Ross</div>
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may </span><br style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; text-decoration: none;" class="">
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confidential information. If you are not the</span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">intended </span><br style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; text-decoration: none;" class="">
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please delete it and notify the sender. Views</span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">expressed </span><br style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; text-decoration: none;" class="">
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this message are those of the individual sender, and</span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">are
not </span><br style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; text-decoration: none;" class="">
<span style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">necessarily
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