[XeTeX] Xetex and Komascript Compatibility
Florian Grammel
grammel at gmx.net
Sat Jun 13 11:17:44 CEST 2009
>>> BTW, you're writing in a simple Latin-based left-to-right script
>>> and language. There is no real necessity to use experimental
>>> XeLaTeX, ripe pdfTeX based LaTeX will work as well ...
>>
>>
>> Actually XeTeX has been very reliable for quite some time now. And
>> there loads of really good reasons to use it for latin script-
>> languages as well, easy font-handling being the first thing that
>> comes to my mind ...
>
> Perfectly agree with you. May I ask you wether you use this
> combination only for english texts or also other languages. The
> problem seems to arise especially with french texts in my case. But
> I will have to do some tests with other languages.
I've never had to handle any french texts, but many other mainly
skandnavian languages -- I really don't think, that this is causing
your problems.
But you should try to replace the typographically "wrong" apostrophe '
in your text with ’. As far as I can see, the ' prevents babel/
polyglossia from recognizing the words and thus they are not
hyphenated correctly, giving you the many overful boxes. When I do
this, I can typeset your example in twocolumn-mode whithout any
problems.
KOMA is obviously not handling ' as an apostroph -- whether this is a
bug or a (typographic) feature, I dare not say. Might be you'd like to
contact Markus Kohm about this?
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Florian Grammel
Gentofte, Denmark
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