[XeTeX] Bibtex and Xelatex problems

[Bernd]

Hi Will,
thank you, I really should include fontspec before I complain. Now it 
works absolutely fine, what font uses Xetex as default? I use Arial 
Unicode MS now, which also has all the goodies in it.
Bernd.

Will Robertson wrote:
> 25/10/2005, 7pm - Bernd wrote:
> 
> 
>> I have started to create a bibliography with BibDesk and some nice 
>> scripts that help me gather all the information. Now I wanted to 
>> actually print out the whole stuff and had to find out that some 
>> unicode characters are plain left out. That is especially for 
>> characters that use bars and dots under and above letters such as you 
>> would want for transliteration of Arabic script.
>>
> 
> I don't think you have a problem.
> BibTeX seems clever enough to ignore the actual contents of the files it 
> processes -- effectively it ignores the encoding of the file for our 
> purposes.
> 
> I tested this hypothesis with the following file:
> 
> %%% unicode-bibtex-test.tex %%%
> \begin{filecontents}{test.bib}
> @book{test,
>    author = {Will Robertson},
>    title = {उद्दिष्टः समाहितचित्तस्य योगः । कथं व्युत्थितचित्तोऽपि},
>    publisher = {Nobody},
>    year = {1842}}
> \end{filecontents}
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \setromanfont{Code2000}
> \begin{document}
> hello \cite{test}
> \bibliographystyle{plain}
> \bibliography{test}
> \end{document}
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> 
> So your problem stems from one of two areas: (a) BibDesk is doing 
> something funny with your bibliography database. Check the plain .bib 
> file in a text editor to ensure this file looks as you expect. (Also 
> look into BibDesk's Unicode->TeX conversion in the "Files" preference.)
> 
> Alternatively, you might simply be printing out the bibliography in a 
> font that doesn't *contain* all of the glyphs you're trying to output. 
> This can be checked by using a font like Code2000, which has every glyph 
> under the sun, albeit at the expense of actually looking nice in some 
> cases.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Will
> 
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