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Re: [NTG-pdftex] \pdffontattr in pdftex-1.40.0-rc4
by Reinhard Kotucha 27 Dec '06

27 Dec '06

Akira, I put my response back to the pdftex developers list because I think that it is very helpful if the developer who implemented the message "pdfTeX warning (\pdffontattr): font \^^@ has conflicting attributes" can tell us a bit more about it's meaning. >>>>> "Akira" == Akira Kakuto <kakuto(a)fsci.fuk.kindai.ac.jp> writes: > Hi Reinhard, >> I'm trying to run the vntex testfiles with the current pdftex >> release recently uploaded to the TeXLive repository by Martin. >> >> Can anybody tell me what the warnings mean? >> >> pdfTeX warning (\pdffontattr): font \^^@ has conflicting >> attributes > Can you please tell me the name of the test file if it is in CTAN? Try ${TEXMF}/doc/generic/vntex/tests/urwvn-test.tex which you already have installed. urwvn-test.tex requires other files from the tests directory. You do not need the latest version, I did not change the content of the file. Recent versions load a .cls file while former versions loaded a .sty file. That's all. There should not be any differences between the files from TL-2005 and the current files. > (I've tested a few vntex tests and I don't have the warning. > Maybe I'm testing different files.) The files had not been changed, I got the messages after I switched from pdftex-1.30 to pdftex 1.40. Thank you very much, Akira. Best regards, Reinhard -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-4592165 Marschnerstr. 25 D-30167 Hannover mailto:reinhard.kotucha@web.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Some 1.40 beta nitpicking
by Frank Küster 27 Dec '06

27 Dec '06

Hi, - INSTALL says: "The code of pdfTeX is in src/texk/web2c/pdfetexdir" However, s/pdfetexdir/pdftexdir/ - pdftex.xml says that pdfTeX is an "extension of TeX which directly generates PDF documents instead of DVI". Since it's routinely used to generate DVI now, and even provides additional features in DVI mode, this could be changed to "extension of TeX which allows direct generatiion of PDF documents and provides micro-typographic (and other) features in DVI and PDF mode". I'm also unsure whether pdflatex really deserves special mentioning? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

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[ pdftex-Feature Requests-715 ] highlight ligatures
by noreply＠sarovar.org 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Feature Requests item #715, was opened at 2006-12-22 10:48 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=496&aid=715&group_id=106 >Category: Fonts >Group: v1.50 Status: Open Resolution: None >Priority: 3 Submitted By: Uli Laube (ulilaube) >Assigned to: Hartmut Henkel (hhenkel) Summary: highlight ligatures Initial Comment: Hello! >From time to time people in de.comp.text.tex ask for a solution to remove ligatures from german words automatically. As this requires quite some knowledge of the morphology of the german language, packages like rmligs or ligatex use lists of words to remove unwanted ligatures. As this depends on the ligatures available in the font used, it is quite troublesome to the compile the lists. I'am proposing the following addtion to be incorporated into pdftex: highlighting of the ligatures. If enabled pdftex uses a bold version of the font when it inserts ligatures in normal text and vice versa. Like /em and /emph work for italic text. This would allow the user of pdftex to prepare a draft copy of the document were all ligatures are highlighted and can be easily spotted. The user can then insert "| manually to remove the unwanted ligatures. Kind Regards and Happy Holidays Uli Laube ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Uli Laube (ulilaube) Date: 2006-12-22 14:12 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=4116 Highlighting the ligatures would only be necessary in a draft copy. Then one would insert the "| in the appropriate places and disable the highlighting. A change in paragraph breaking is acceptable in my opinion as I would not want to distribute the version with highlighted ligatures. Changing the font color is a nice idea. But it would require an extra virtual font for every font used in the document as they might have different ligatures. Seems to me, that I have to learn how to write .vlp files :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Hartmut Henkel (hhenkel) Date: 2006-12-22 14:08 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=929 ...an example .vpl file with colorchange command: (CHARACTER O 2 (CHARWD R 0.777781) (CHARHT R 0.683332) (MAP (SPECIAL pdf:direct: 0.486 0.104 0.291 rg) (SETCHAR O 2) (SPECIAL pdf:direct: 0 0 0 rg) ) ) Regards, Hartmut ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Hartmut Henkel (hhenkel) Date: 2006-12-22 13:55 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=929 For highlighting a boldface font is needed that has the same metrics as the non-highlighted one, to keep paragraph breaking unchanged. What you can do right now is to generate a virtual font that contains colored ligatures! It is in fact possible to add PDF color change command specials into the .vpl virtual property list files of the virtual font, These commands will then be inserted into the PDF page stream in front of the glyphs. But also some solution on engine level should be doable. Regards, Hartmut ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Uli Laube (ulilaube) Date: 2006-12-22 11:22 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=4116 If a document uses different fonts, they might have different ligatures available. The special font and the macro packages might not be aware of this. As far as I know, the insertion of ligatures happens late when the .dvi oder .pdf is created. My hope is that switching to the bold version of the font when a ligature is inserted might be a way to have this feature work for all fonts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Frank Küster (frank) Date: 2006-12-22 11:08 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=3360 Since ligatures are inserted according to information in the fonts, I think this should be implemented as a combination of a special font (which uses noticeably different glyphs for ligatures), and a macro package that switches fonts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=496&aid=715&group_id=106

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[ pdftex-Feature Requests-715 ] highlight ligatures
by noreply＠sarovar.org 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Feature Requests item #715, was opened at 2006-12-22 10:48 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=496&aid=715&group_id=106 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Uli Laube (ulilaube) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: highlight ligatures Initial Comment: Hello! >From time to time people in de.comp.text.tex ask for a solution to remove ligatures from german words automatically. As this requires quite some knowledge of the morphology of the german language, packages like rmligs or ligatex use lists of words to remove unwanted ligatures. As this depends on the ligatures available in the font used, it is quite troublesome to the compile the lists. I'am proposing the following addtion to be incorporated into pdftex: highlighting of the ligatures. If enabled pdftex uses a bold version of the font when it inserts ligatures in normal text and vice versa. Like /em and /emph work for italic text. This would allow the user of pdftex to prepare a draft copy of the document were all ligatures are highlighted and can be easily spotted. The user can then insert "| manually to remove the unwanted ligatures. Kind Regards and Happy Holidays Uli Laube ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Uli Laube (ulilaube) Date: 2006-12-22 14:12 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=4116 Highlighting the ligatures would only be necessary in a draft copy. Then one would insert the "| in the appropriate places and disable the highlighting. A change in paragraph breaking is acceptable in my opinion as I would not want to distribute the version with highlighted ligatures. Changing the font color is a nice idea. But it would require an extra virtual font for every font used in the document as they might have different ligatures. Seems to me, that I have to learn how to write .vlp files :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Hartmut Henkel (hhenkel) Date: 2006-12-22 14:08 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=929 ...an example .vpl file with colorchange command: (CHARACTER O 2 (CHARWD R 0.777781) (CHARHT R 0.683332) (MAP (SPECIAL pdf:direct: 0.486 0.104 0.291 rg) (SETCHAR O 2) (SPECIAL pdf:direct: 0 0 0 rg) ) ) Regards, Hartmut ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Hartmut Henkel (hhenkel) Date: 2006-12-22 13:55 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=929 For highlighting a boldface font is needed that has the same metrics as the non-highlighted one, to keep paragraph breaking unchanged. What you can do right now is to generate a virtual font that contains colored ligatures! It is in fact possible to add PDF color change command specials into the .vpl virtual property list files of the virtual font, These commands will then be inserted into the PDF page stream in front of the glyphs. But also some solution on engine level should be doable. Regards, Hartmut ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Uli Laube (ulilaube) Date: 2006-12-22 11:22 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=4116 If a document uses different fonts, they might have different ligatures available. The special font and the macro packages might not be aware of this. As far as I know, the insertion of ligatures happens late when the .dvi oder .pdf is created. My hope is that switching to the bold version of the font when a ligature is inserted might be a way to have this feature work for all fonts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Frank Küster (frank) Date: 2006-12-22 11:08 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=3360 Since ligatures are inserted according to information in the fonts, I think this should be implemented as a combination of a special font (which uses noticeably different glyphs for ligatures), and a macro package that switches fonts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=496&aid=715&group_id=106

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[ pdftex-Feature Requests-715 ] highlight ligatures
by noreply＠sarovar.org 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Feature Requests item #715, was opened at 2006-12-22 10:48 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=496&aid=715&group_id=106 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Uli Laube (ulilaube) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: highlight ligatures Initial Comment: Hello! >From time to time people in de.comp.text.tex ask for a solution to remove ligatures from german words automatically. As this requires quite some knowledge of the morphology of the german language, packages like rmligs or ligatex use lists of words to remove unwanted ligatures. As this depends on the ligatures available in the font used, it is quite troublesome to the compile the lists. I'am proposing the following addtion to be incorporated into pdftex: highlighting of the ligatures. If enabled pdftex uses a bold version of the font when it inserts ligatures in normal text and vice versa. Like /em and /emph work for italic text. This would allow the user of pdftex to prepare a draft copy of the document were all ligatures are highlighted and can be easily spotted. The user can then insert "| manually to remove the unwanted ligatures. Kind Regards and Happy Holidays Uli Laube ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Hartmut Henkel (hhenkel) Date: 2006-12-22 14:08 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=929 ...an example .vpl file with colorchange command: (CHARACTER O 2 (CHARWD R 0.777781) (CHARHT R 0.683332) (MAP (SPECIAL pdf:direct: 0.486 0.104 0.291 rg) (SETCHAR O 2) (SPECIAL pdf:direct: 0 0 0 rg) ) ) Regards, Hartmut ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Hartmut Henkel (hhenkel) Date: 2006-12-22 13:55 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=929 For highlighting a boldface font is needed that has the same metrics as the non-highlighted one, to keep paragraph breaking unchanged. What you can do right now is to generate a virtual font that contains colored ligatures! It is in fact possible to add PDF color change command specials into the .vpl virtual property list files of the virtual font, These commands will then be inserted into the PDF page stream in front of the glyphs. But also some solution on engine level should be doable. Regards, Hartmut ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Uli Laube (ulilaube) Date: 2006-12-22 11:22 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=4116 If a document uses different fonts, they might have different ligatures available. The special font and the macro packages might not be aware of this. As far as I know, the insertion of ligatures happens late when the .dvi oder .pdf is created. My hope is that switching to the bold version of the font when a ligature is inserted might be a way to have this feature work for all fonts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Frank Küster (frank) Date: 2006-12-22 11:08 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=3360 Since ligatures are inserted according to information in the fonts, I think this should be implemented as a combination of a special font (which uses noticeably different glyphs for ligatures), and a macro package that switches fonts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=496&aid=715&group_id=106

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[ pdftex-Feature Requests-715 ] highlight ligatures
by noreply＠sarovar.org 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Feature Requests item #715, was opened at 2006-12-22 10:48 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=496&aid=715&group_id=106 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Uli Laube (ulilaube) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: highlight ligatures Initial Comment: Hello! >From time to time people in de.comp.text.tex ask for a solution to remove ligatures from german words automatically. As this requires quite some knowledge of the morphology of the german language, packages like rmligs or ligatex use lists of words to remove unwanted ligatures. As this depends on the ligatures available in the font used, it is quite troublesome to the compile the lists. I'am proposing the following addtion to be incorporated into pdftex: highlighting of the ligatures. If enabled pdftex uses a bold version of the font when it inserts ligatures in normal text and vice versa. Like /em and /emph work for italic text. This would allow the user of pdftex to prepare a draft copy of the document were all ligatures are highlighted and can be easily spotted. The user can then insert "| manually to remove the unwanted ligatures. Kind Regards and Happy Holidays Uli Laube ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Hartmut Henkel (hhenkel) Date: 2006-12-22 13:55 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=929 For highlighting a boldface font is needed that has the same metrics as the non-highlighted one, to keep paragraph breaking unchanged. What you can do right now is to generate a virtual font that contains colored ligatures! It is in fact possible to add PDF color change command specials into the .vpl virtual property list files of the virtual font, These commands will then be inserted into the PDF page stream in front of the glyphs. But also some solution on engine level should be doable. Regards, Hartmut ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Uli Laube (ulilaube) Date: 2006-12-22 11:22 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=4116 If a document uses different fonts, they might have different ligatures available. The special font and the macro packages might not be aware of this. As far as I know, the insertion of ligatures happens late when the .dvi oder .pdf is created. My hope is that switching to the bold version of the font when a ligature is inserted might be a way to have this feature work for all fonts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Frank Küster (frank) Date: 2006-12-22 11:08 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=3360 Since ligatures are inserted according to information in the fonts, I think this should be implemented as a combination of a special font (which uses noticeably different glyphs for ligatures), and a macro package that switches fonts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=496&aid=715&group_id=106

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[ pdftex-Feature Requests-715 ] highlight ligatures
by noreply＠sarovar.org 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Feature Requests item #715, was opened at 2006-12-22 10:48 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=496&aid=715&group_id=106 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Uli Laube (ulilaube) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: highlight ligatures Initial Comment: Hello! >From time to time people in de.comp.text.tex ask for a solution to remove ligatures from german words automatically. As this requires quite some knowledge of the morphology of the german language, packages like rmligs or ligatex use lists of words to remove unwanted ligatures. As this depends on the ligatures available in the font used, it is quite troublesome to the compile the lists. I'am proposing the following addtion to be incorporated into pdftex: highlighting of the ligatures. If enabled pdftex uses a bold version of the font when it inserts ligatures in normal text and vice versa. Like /em and /emph work for italic text. This would allow the user of pdftex to prepare a draft copy of the document were all ligatures are highlighted and can be easily spotted. The user can then insert "| manually to remove the unwanted ligatures. Kind Regards and Happy Holidays Uli Laube ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Uli Laube (ulilaube) Date: 2006-12-22 11:22 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=4116 If a document uses different fonts, they might have different ligatures available. The special font and the macro packages might not be aware of this. As far as I know, the insertion of ligatures happens late when the .dvi oder .pdf is created. My hope is that switching to the bold version of the font when a ligature is inserted might be a way to have this feature work for all fonts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Frank Küster (frank) Date: 2006-12-22 11:08 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=3360 Since ligatures are inserted according to information in the fonts, I think this should be implemented as a combination of a special font (which uses noticeably different glyphs for ligatures), and a macro package that switches fonts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=496&aid=715&group_id=106

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[ pdftex-Feature Requests-715 ] highlight ligatures
by noreply＠sarovar.org 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Feature Requests item #715, was opened at 2006-12-22 10:48 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=496&aid=715&group_id=106 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Uli Laube (ulilaube) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: highlight ligatures Initial Comment: Hello! >From time to time people in de.comp.text.tex ask for a solution to remove ligatures from german words automatically. As this requires quite some knowledge of the morphology of the german language, packages like rmligs or ligatex use lists of words to remove unwanted ligatures. As this depends on the ligatures available in the font used, it is quite troublesome to the compile the lists. I'am proposing the following addtion to be incorporated into pdftex: highlighting of the ligatures. If enabled pdftex uses a bold version of the font when it inserts ligatures in normal text and vice versa. Like /em and /emph work for italic text. This would allow the user of pdftex to prepare a draft copy of the document were all ligatures are highlighted and can be easily spotted. The user can then insert "| manually to remove the unwanted ligatures. Kind Regards and Happy Holidays Uli Laube ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Frank Küster (frank) Date: 2006-12-22 11:08 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=3360 Since ligatures are inserted according to information in the fonts, I think this should be implemented as a combination of a special font (which uses noticeably different glyphs for ligatures), and a macro package that switches fonts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=496&aid=715&group_id=106

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[ pdftex-Feature Requests-715 ] highlight ligatures
by noreply＠sarovar.org 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Feature Requests item #715, was opened at 2006-12-22 10:48 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=496&aid=715&group_id=106 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Uli Laube (ulilaube) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: highlight ligatures Initial Comment: Hello! >From time to time people in de.comp.text.tex ask for a solution to remove ligatures from german words automatically. As this requires quite some knowledge of the morphology of the german language, packages like rmligs or ligatex use lists of words to remove unwanted ligatures. As this depends on the ligatures available in the font used, it is quite troublesome to the compile the lists. I'am proposing the following addtion to be incorporated into pdftex: highlighting of the ligatures. If enabled pdftex uses a bold version of the font when it inserts ligatures in normal text and vice versa. Like /em and /emph work for italic text. This would allow the user of pdftex to prepare a draft copy of the document were all ligatures are highlighted and can be easily spotted. The user can then insert "| manually to remove the unwanted ligatures. Kind Regards and Happy Holidays Uli Laube ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=496&aid=715&group_id=106

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1.40-rc4
by Martin Schröder 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

http://sarovar.org/download.php/1131/pdftex-1.40.0-rc4.tar.bz2 http://sarovar.org/download.php/1132/pdftex-1.40.0-rc3-rc4.diff.gz We are almost there... ----------------------------------------------------- pdfTeX 3.141592-1.40.0-rc4 was released on 2006-12-22 ----------------------------------------------------- - changes from rc3: various small fixes In India (where sarovar stands) it' still the 21st. :-) I'll have a stab at integrating this into TL over christmas, and we'll work on the manual. If no serious bugs are detected, I'll do a realease next week. Best Martin

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