texlive-xetex accents bug in Hardy Heron

[mehor]

Binary package hint: texlive-xetex

If using "\=" and "\^" commands for accents after which later in the word comes "-" with "xelatex" run, characters between accents and "-" are repeated twice, so, e.g., if entered this: "Uj\=unul-eser" one gets this as a result: "Ujûnul-nul-eser" instead of "Ujûnul-eser". Jonathan said that this was a bug that was fixed around August 20, 2007, but it seems that it is still present in Hardy version of texlive-xetex. Choice of font doesn't influence the result, it is same for .otf, .ttf, pfb. Plain LaTeX hasn't this problem.

This happens on:
Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron final, 64bit
texlive 2007 from Hardy's main repo
package texlive-xetex 2007.dfsg.1-2.

On Gutsy this problem didn't happen. Also, texlive-xetex 2007.dfsg.1-3 from Debian Sid doesn't have this problem.

Here is sample code for "xelatex" run:

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{scrbook}
\usepackage[cm-default]{fontspec}
\usepackage{xunicode}
\usepackage[no-sscript]{xltxtra}
\defaultfontfeatures{Scale=MatchLowercase,Mapping=tex-text}
\setmainfont{URW Palladio L}

\begin{document}
Uj\=unul-eser
\end{document}

[Norbert Preining (preining)]

On Mi, 30 Apr 2008, meho_r wrote:
> On Gutsy this problem didn't happen. Also, texlive-xetex 2007.dfsg.1-3
> from Debian Sid doesn't have this problem.

So in time that will be fixed in Ubuntu by including the new binaries.

> Here is sample code for "xelatex" run:

I couldn't compile the code:

> \documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{scrbook}
> \usepackage[cm-default]{fontspec}
> \usepackage{xunicode}
> \usepackage[no-sscript]{xltxtra}
> \defaultfontfeatures{Scale=MatchLowercase,Mapping=tex-text}
> \setmainfont{URW Palladio L}
>
> \begin{document}
> Uj\=unul-eser
> \end{document}

...
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/fixltx2e.sty))

./bla.tex:5: LaTeX Error: Unknown option `no-sscript' for package `xltxtra'.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.
 ...

l.5 \defaultfontfeatures
                        {Scale=MatchLowercase,Mapping=tex-text}
?

Best wishes

Norbert

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[mehor (mehor)]

Please try without [no-sscript] option in the code or update xltxtra.sty to v.0.3c (in attachment)

[Norbert Preining (preining)]

On Do, 01 Mai 2008, meho_r wrote:
> Please try without [no-sscript] option in the code or update xltxtra.sty

In the current Debian unstable packages there is no problem, so I guess
the only thing necessary is that Ubuntu fetches these packages.

Best wishes

Norbert

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[mehor (mehor)]

Thanks for reply. Yes, in Debian unstable texlive-xetex package there's no problem, only in the current Hardy main repo.

[mehor (mehor)]

Just to note that same problem exists in openSUSE 11's .rpm package