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Thanks for the response.

I realized my error when I looked back at the definition of sloppypar. For some reason I had it in my head that the infinite setting for \tolerance was 1000, when in fact it's 10000 . Sloppypar sets it to 9999 (not 999 as I was thinking), so that's why it worked in my ...

Hello,

I read in the UK Tex FAQ that it's possible to use the following to define an environment that will change the spacing/hyphenation tolerance in the surrounded paragraphs:

\newenvironment{tolerant}[1]{%
\par\tolerance=#1\relax
}{%
\par
}


This is exactly what I want to do (I'm getting a ...

Yes, of course I've read the manual several times. It's always hard to tell, I think, how inclusive or exclusive claims like that are. I'm mainly wondering if anyone has gotten it to work, or can spy obvious mistakes I'm making. But thanks for the suggestion--I'll try the writer or maintainer. RP

Hello, does anyone know if the Booklet package can be made to work with Xetex? I'm trying to use the Booklet package to generate a simple booklet or "signature" of several folded sheets of poems, one poem per page. The idea is to have each poem print on half an 8.5x11 inch, standard letterpage sheet ...

What I was thinking about was having, e.g., the subsection level set in normal size italics. How then would I get the numbers of the subsections to print in roman figures?

One way I got it to work was through the Memoir class, fooling around with \setsecnumformat.

But is there a way to do the ...

frabjous--thanks for the quick reply. A little more hunting around revealed my problem: an older version of Xetex in which the opentype layout tables were not yet compatible with the newer Adobe fonts. So all's well now.

But I do have another question, which guess I'll raise in another topic ...

Hello, I wonder if someone could help me with a problem I'm having with Adobe Caslon Pro (and actually some others too, but I'll stick with Caslon here). My goal is to use the roman text figures (lowercase numbers in roman) in ordinary Latex/Xetex documents. I started with Xetex/XeLatex/Fontspec ...