[XeTeX] line spacing

Will Robertson will at guerilla.net.au
Tue Mar 8 08:14:52 CET 2005


On 8 Mar 2005, at 8:29 AM, Ross Moore wrote:

> You also want [proper no-break space thing] to happen
> automatically for the "right" fonts,
> rather than putting it explicitly in every document.
> In a sense this is an encoding issue.
> <snip>
> I could try to hack at the \fontencoding command to implement
> this. But firstly I'd need to know:
>
>   What other fonts use `U' encoding ?

A whole bunch of random fonts which have non-standard encoding, as far 
as I'm aware. For example, various Euler families, yinitas, dingbat 
fonts, maybe chess fonts?

It seems like a good idea to me to switch to some new font encoding 
specifically for unicode fonts which isn't define as rigourously as a 
'normal' font encoding (as in every character in the encoding must be 
present in the font) but rather is used in XeTeX for having somewhere 
to work with for features specific to these fonts (xunicode would be 
subsumed into it, as well).

AU - 'arbitrary unicode' for example.

It doesn't seem especially like a good idea to me to overload the U 
encoding. But I'm not particularly knowledgeable about the details of 
the whole LaTeX encoding thing, besides having read the relevant 
chapter in TLC2.

Best wishes,
Will Robertson



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