[XeTeX] A general suggetion for managing the font selection for mixed-language document

Yin Dian yindian at gmail.com
Sat Sep 1 12:00:23 CEST 2007


Hi all,

I agree that it's a better idea not to implement this feature in fontspec
but in other packages, where the character class scheme may be totally
redefined discarding the effort of fontspec. In fact, the package
"zhspacing" for Chinese document spacing adjustment is almost ready for use
now. You can find out more info on the BBS of USTC and SMTH in Chinese. The
project homepage is http://code.google.com/p/zhspacing/. HTH.

Regards.

YIN Dian

On 9/1/07, Will Robertson <wspr81 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 01/09/2007, at 17:44 , Song Zhiwei wrote:
>
> > Many users is going to manage the font selection for mixed-language
> > document. This can be done by adding a feature of "Unicode" for
> > \fontsec like the feature of "Size".
>
> I'm happy to support the addition of such features to fontspec but I
> wonder if a new package would be a better idea (there's no reason
> this couldn't hook into the fontspec interface, though).
>
> There's additional stuff that falls into the category of this sort of
> feature that doesn't make so much sense in fontspec -- for example,
> tuning the spacing around punctuation. Perhaps the upcoming jspacing
> (?) package will do this sort of thing.
>
> Sadly I don't have time to work on this new interface but I
> definitely like the idea.
>
> Will
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