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by AliceWonderMisc
Sun Jun 02, 2019 12:43 pm
Forum: Text Formatting
Topic: curly braces in text mode
Replies: 1
Views: 13160

curly braces in text mode

Old post but I ran into same problem and this was top google result for my query.

I found a solution that works with mtpro2

Use

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\string{
and

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\string}
For example:

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\texttt{exec\string{\string}}
will typeset in the monospace font as

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exec{}
by AliceWonderMisc
Fri May 31, 2019 2:44 am
Forum: Fonts & Character Sets
Topic: Macro for TeXLive and PCTeX ??
Replies: 1
Views: 2391

Macro for TeXLive and PCTeX ??

High odd question - and I'm sure it's been asked before but I can't find it.

We have the \TeX{} and \LaTeX{} macros.

In book I am working on, it is open source book released under FDL but I mention the FDL doesn't cover fonts used in the printing of the content, so printing the PDF or photocopying ...
by AliceWonderMisc
Sat May 25, 2019 12:14 am
Forum: Others
Topic: vim in terminal and syntax highlight
Replies: 4
Views: 22416

vim in terminal and syntax highlight

Note -

Also discovered (while reading the tex.vim file) that adding

%stopzone

to the LaTeX file also tells vim to restore normal syntax highlight when a custom Verbatim environment causes a problem.

Adding note here in case search engines send people here.
by AliceWonderMisc
Fri May 24, 2019 12:53 pm
Forum: Others
Topic: vim in terminal and syntax highlight
Replies: 4
Views: 22416

vim in terminal and syntax highlight

Thank you! Worked perfectly.
by AliceWonderMisc
Fri May 24, 2019 6:33 am
Forum: Others
Topic: vim in terminal and syntax highlight
Replies: 4
Views: 22416

vim in terminal and syntax highlight

The file presently working on where it is an issue -

https://gitlab.com/Pipfrosch/librelampdocumentation/blob/master/man/libressl.cnf.5.tex

Line 326 (line number may change as I work on it) in the gitlab rendering shows where start of issue is - I don't care about gitlab getting it right, but it's ...
by AliceWonderMisc
Fri May 24, 2019 6:28 am
Forum: Others
Topic: vim in terminal and syntax highlight
Replies: 4
Views: 22416

vim in terminal and syntax highlight

Hello,

I'm currently porting some man pages to LaTeX for the appendix of another documentation project I'm working on.

The color syntax works well enough but one issue -

When I use \begin{Verbatim} it can figure out that $ within are not the start of math.

however I'm actually using \begin ...
by AliceWonderMisc
Sat Sep 08, 2018 3:10 pm
Forum: Fonts & Character Sets
Topic: Special Characters for Times ???
Replies: 9
Views: 6917

Special Characters for Times ???

I think I am going to buy a font - there's a really nice one called Mengelt Basel Antiqua. It's opentype.

With respect to the URW Antiqua font - the italic is emulated (tfm but no actual .pfb/.pfa) and I wonder if that's the problem when I try using newer than pdflatex engine. Mengelt Basel Antigua ...
by AliceWonderMisc
Sat Sep 01, 2018 8:26 am
Forum: Fonts & Character Sets
Topic: Special Characters for Times ???
Replies: 9
Views: 6917

Special Characters for Times ???

I'll have to dig up the link I downloaded it from.

Just tried xelatex and it seems I didn't install one of my fonts (I'm guessing URW Antiqua) correctly for xelatex -

mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 uaqrrc.pfa
mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 uaqrrc.pfa ...
by AliceWonderMisc
Sat Sep 01, 2018 7:52 am
Forum: Fonts & Character Sets
Topic: Special Characters for Times ???
Replies: 9
Views: 6917

Special Characters for Times ???

Looks like U+222B could be abused to provide a long s.

-=-

pdflatex is what I am using, which pretty much limits me to type 1 fonts but OpenType fonts with type 1 outline can usually be converted, within the 256 character limit - or as multiple type 1 fonts if more are needed.

I will try ...
by AliceWonderMisc
Sat Sep 01, 2018 7:15 am
Forum: Fonts & Character Sets
Topic: Special Characters for Times ???
Replies: 9
Views: 6917

Special Characters for Times ???

I've actually switched to URW Antiqua for German written with Roman letters. Times has some problems, for example if an i or j is next to a letter with an umlaut, the dot over the i and j is at a different height than on the umlaut. URW Antiqua does not have that problem.

Unfortunately using URW ...