Bug#507652: Increase severity to release-critical because XeLaTeX is broken.
severity 507652 wishlist
retitle 507652 make math support working in xe(la)tex and lmodern fonts
tags 507652 + fixed-upstream
thanks
> I am raising the severity because xelatex is unusable for me.
What about simply using
\"Ubung ...
and then xelatex ...
That works.
> In my message from Sunday 13:47 (EST) I enumerated some ways to fix
> this.
No, you enumerated problems, no ways to fix it.
The fix is useing \"U for now.
> If I am wrong about the severity, I am sorry.
Yes you are. Noone ever said that xetex is ready for full math
typesetting. That is so much WIP, the lmodern fonts in use in Debian
imply don't have the math stuff AFAIS set up properly.
But we cannot update only lmodern, because there are a bunch of other
things we would have to touch withing texlive (fontspec eg). That is not
a good idea.
So your options are:
- wait for texlive 2008 in Debian
- install texlive 2008 as is (no debian packages)
(I can confirm that using test-fontspec in TL2008 gives the expected
output)
- use pdflatex
- use \" notation (recode is your friend, I guess it has a mode for
that)
- install updated packages for fontspc, lmodern etc locally
But there is no fix for *all*.
Best wishes
Norbert
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Dr. Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> Vienna University of Technology
Debian Developer <preining@debian.org> Debian TeX Group
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