[XeTeX] (bug?) letterspacing with LetterSpace and soul

[John Was]

I didn't rebuild anything - and won't be interfering with a brand-new installation of TexLive.  I'm in the middle of a couple of huge jobs and can't risk messing things up.  (Actually I don't think I've had to build a format file since the days of loading EmTeX onto a computer with about a dozen floppy disks - some time in the early 1990s!)

But in any case the simplified version doesn't do the trick either - I get 'missing number, treated as zero'.

It's not really worth going into at present (from my point of view, though others may have a more pressing need).  I'll investigate when I get some free time.  Many thanks for the suggestions, though.

John

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Apostolos Syropoulos 
  To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms 
  Sent: 30 May 2010 16:20
  Subject: Re: [XeTeX] (bug?) letterspacing with LetterSpace and soul


  >Unfortunately test.tex doesn't compile properly on a Windows system using plain XeTeX.  The first complaint it makes 
  >is that it doesn't understand the command \typeout, and when told to ignore that (more than once)  it goes on to 
  >typeset the passage but with no hyphenation patterns loaded - so there are overfull rules at various points in the text.  
  >The error message (which I suppose is meant to go in the log) actually appears at the start of the resulting PDF, 
  >before the Greek text starts.

  First of all, did you rebuild your format file? In order to avoid the problem with the \typeout commands, use the following
  simplified version:

  \def\setlanguage#1{\language=\csname l@#1\endcsname}

  A.S.

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  Apostolos Syropoulos
  Xanthi, Greece






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