[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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