[XeTeX] Lucida New Math and XeTeX

[Jonathan Kew]

On 16 May 2007, at 6:14 am, Will Robertson wrote:

> On 16/05/2007, at 21:26 , Gour wrote:
>
>> However, in the past I had big problems finding fonts which would
>> include all Croatian chars (eg. šŠ đĐ čČ ćĆ žŽ lj nj)
>> belonging to
>> (old) latin2 encoding.
>>
>> Moreover, sometimes I have to typeset some texts using Sanskrit
>> diacritical marks and there only TeX accent-mechanism would help.
>
> My multilingual knowledge isn't too flash. I'd be interested in
> hearing the general state of OpenType fonts with respect to these
> sorts of things. Obviously, it's going to vary a lot... but a good
> unicode font should have the accents you need for Sanskrit
> diacritics, and XeTeX'll place them better than TeX will...

Well, TeX will do fine provided you have accent macros that match the  
fonts you're using. But with XeTeX and a good OpenType font, the  
Unicode accented characters (or base characters with combining marks  
from the U+03xx block) should work automatically.

In particular, all the accents (including Croation, Sanskrit  
transliteration, etc) should work in Charis SIL, which has a very  
extensive character set and full OpenType support for diacritic  
positioning.

You might also like to try the TeX Gyre fonts <http://www.gust.org.pl/ 
projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/>, available in .otf format as well as  
traditional .pfb + .tfm etc for TeX. I'm sure these will provide the  
Croation characters you need; not so confident about Sanskrit  
diacritics (but you could send a request to the developers, if  
anything is missing).

JK