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by arma_virumque
Sun May 23, 2010 4:52 am
Forum: Text Formatting
Topic: verse package and line numbering
Replies: 0
Views: 2502

verse package and line numbering

hi all,

It seems that the verse package can do line numbering. This is for a poem. It often happens that poems have line numbering every Nth one. In my case I grabbed some old latin texts and they appear to have this line numbering. So far I've have a pretty complete latex preamble with neat ...
by arma_virumque
Sun May 23, 2010 1:32 am
Forum: Fonts & Character Sets
Topic: best fonts for an e-reader???
Replies: 6
Views: 11546

best fonts for an e-reader???

thanks a lot \setmainfont{DejaVu Sans} did the trick. Now, since this is ancient poem computer fonts make it look too cold and lifeless. What's another font that's prettier, non-machine type?

Also to clarify the types, is Sans the machine type and Serif the classical type? I think I am starting to ...
by arma_virumque
Fri May 21, 2010 6:13 am
Forum: Fonts & Character Sets
Topic: best fonts for an e-reader???
Replies: 6
Views: 11546

best fonts for an e-reader???

What Unicode blocks are most important to you?

Thanks for replying, mostly extended latin unicode block. But I'd really would like to know how to add them in my tex document. This is what got so far:

\documentclass[8pt,oneside]{extbook}
\usepackage[paperwidth=88.184mm,paperheight=113.854mm ...
by arma_virumque
Thu May 20, 2010 7:12 pm
Forum: Fonts & Character Sets
Topic: best fonts for an e-reader???
Replies: 6
Views: 11546

best fonts for an e-reader???

hi all,

I had a question about xetex and the best font for a document that'll be read on a e-reader, the NOOK in this case.

Ideally I would like a utf8 font and scalable if that makes any difference.

\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xunicode}
\usepackage{xltxtra}


by the way I am ultra newbie ...