Re: [AUCTeX] composed characters in LaTeX source code

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Le 08/11/2018 à 22:56, Stephen Berman a écrit :
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 21:48:34 +0100 Joost Kremers <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 09:08:51PM +0100, Stephen Berman wrote:
> > > Thanks.  I ran it through XeLaTeX and that indeed output the composed
> > > character correctly aligned, though the vertical positioning looks worse
> > > to me than with pdflatex (see attached screenshots; text0.pdf is with
> > > pdflatex and text1.pdf with xelatex).
> >
> > That may be a font issue. My preferred font is Linux Libertine, and as you can
> > see in the attached image, things look a bit different: the accents on b are
> > shifted slightly to the right so that they do not cross the ascender of the
> > b. Compare with p, where the accents are placed more centrally over the
> > letter.
>
> You're right, it depends on the font used.  Though it seems strange that
> pdflatex and xelatex display the combining circumflex accent differently
> with the same font (assuming it was the same font, I just used whatever
> the default was).


It is not exactly the same font, because LaTeX uses the Latin Modern OpenType 
font with XeLaTeX and the Latin Modern TeX font with PDFLaTeX.


> > > Also, to make this AUCTeX-related, after setting LaTeX-command to
> > > xelatex and typing C-c C-c in the test1.tex buffer, the compilation
> > > failed with the uninformative message "LaTeX: problems after [0] pages"
> > > and no log output.  But running xelatex from the shell worked fine.  Is
> > > there something else necessary to use XeLaTeX in AUCTeX?
> >
> > Have you checked the output of the TeX command with `C-c C-l` to see if
> > there's a more informative message? I've been using XeLaTeX for so long that I
> > don't remember if there's anything special I needed to configure. All I know
> > is that I have `TeX-engine` set to `xetex`.
>
> Thanks, that was it.  (Setting LaTeX-command was definitely wrong: it
> resulted in AUCTeX trying to run "pdfxelatex".)

Ah ok.


> Steve Berman