[tex-live] Document compile problem (TeX Live 2010.1, Arch Linux x64)

[Khaled Hosny]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 03:25:20PM +0900, Vladimir Lomov wrote:

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> @Will or Khaled: is it make sense to set font features _without_
> explicitly setting the fonts? In other words: is fontspec set some
> 'default' font to which that features could be applied?

AFAIK, no. By default fontspec will load EU1 or EU2 font encoding which
will use Latin Modern fonts with a hard coded set of features; the
fonts are not loaded through fontspec and thus default font feature has no
effect at all.

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer