[XeTeX] Re: XeTeX & Unicode vs. standard LaTeX

Will Robertson will at guerilla.net.au
Mon Oct 11 01:13:02 CEST 2004


On 11 Oct 2004, at 7:59 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>
> The new version will also offer the ability to load the bold and 
> italic faces of a font without prior knowledge of their exact names, 
> making it possible to write truly "generic" font-family-loading macros 
> for simple families. Thus, for example, I've written a 
> \NewOSXFontFamily macro such that:
>   \NewOSXFontFamily{palatino}{Palatino}
>   \NewOSXFontFamily{times}{Times Roman}
> can be used to set up all four faces of these families for LaTeX, 
> despite the different naming patterns. Hope this will please the folks 
> looking for "simplified" font management! (Complex cases with many 
> different weights, etc., will still require additional .fd files to 
> access all the possibilities.)

This is very exciting.
Since this is a LaTeX-only feature, it might be a good idea to name the 
command \NewLaTeXOSXFontFamily or some-such.

Thanks!!
Will



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