[XeTeX] re: XeTeX Digest, Vol 7, Issue 12
Simon Spiegel
simon at simifilm.ch
Mon Oct 4 14:36:40 CEST 2004
Another apology for all the junk, my webmail interface is stupid, even more
stupid than I realized.
> On 4 Oct 2004, at 7:06 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote:
> > ...
> > The last problem which I still don't know how to handle is the fact
> > that
> > AAT/OpenType offers many options, LaTeX isn't prepared for.
> > ...
>
> Well, since it's your font, you should know what's inside it, so we'll
> leave the question of how to find which features are possible in which
> font to the philosophers.
Well, maybe you're right. I just happen to have some OT fonts on my Mac, and now
with Mellel adding OpenType support and with XeTeX I suddenly see what they
actually offer. Before I didn't realize what features they had. Is there a tool
which displays all features of a OpenType font? Apple's font dialog doesn't care
about OpenType.
>
> This quoted problem above I'm trying to solve in a fairly
> straightforward manner, starting off with my hoefler.sty package. It
> defines commands such as \textsw for swash italics and \textscsl (not
> so uncommon) for italic small caps (and \textscsw for swashed italic
> small caps, which also come in bold - !). Clearly LaTeX is struggling
> to an extent to keep up, but I doubt it's necessary to switch between
> the different founts all that often in a document.
Your solution looks is exactly what I was looking for.
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