[XeTeX] XeTeX and fonts

[stephenmoye at cox.net]

Funny you should mention the new Zapfino -- that is precisely what brought 
this topic to mind. I'll look at your Omega work and see if I'm up to it.

Thanks.

> From: "William F. Adams" <wadams at atlis.com>
> Date: 2004/05/20 Thu AM 09:45:21 EDT
> To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X <xetex at tug.org>
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX and fonts
> 
> On Thursday, May 20, 2004, at 05:22  AM, Stephen Moye wrote:
> 
> > What are the prospects that XeTeX will work with OTF fonts? I assume 
> > that, for the present, it is the absence of system-level support for 
> > OTF that prevents this.
> 
> Correct.
> 
> > I am growing very fond of XeTeX and find it limiting to b able to use 
> > it fully only with a relatively limited number of fonts.
> 
> It gets worse.
> 
> Go to Linotype and upgrade your copy of Zapfino.
> 
> Oh, wait, the version they're selling only has OpenType, not AAT tables.
> 
> Never mind.
> 
> Instead, you can use my hack for Omega---preprint for this is up at
> 
> http://www.tug.org/tug2003/preprints/Adams/adams.pdf
> 
> If you get the initial bit of the install done, I'd be glad to send you 
> an advance copy of the other files necessary.
> 
> William
> 
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