[XeTeX] Problem using XeTeXinterchartoks

[Jonathan Kew]

On 3 Mar 2008, at 9:04 pm, Barry MacKichan wrote:

> I am having trouble using XeTeXinterchartoks. My TeX file is below,  
> and the resulting PDF file is attached. The Chinese characters  
> appear in the first line (showing that \zhfam is defined  
> correctly), but in the second line, there is blank space where the  
> Chinese characters should be. Any help would be appreciated, such  
> as a correction of this file or a link to a complete working sample.

The first thing to check would be whether the characters involved  
have the expected \XeTeXcharclass values; e.g., try inserting

   \showthe\XeTeXcharclass`多

in your document, and see if it reports 1.

If not, you'll need to rebuild the format with an updated unicode- 
letters.tex file (see the xetex subversion repository); this  
initializes a lot of characters based on the Unicode standard, though  
you may still wish to add further definitions for particular purposes.

JK


>
> I am using XeTeX version 0.997 svn 539, the one included in the  
> MikTeX download.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Barry MacKichan
>
> \documentclass{article}%
> \usepackage{amsmath}
> \usepackage{amsfonts}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \usepackage{xltxtra}
> \usepackage{xunicode}
>
> \newfontfamily\zhfam{MingLiU}
> \XeTeXinterchartokenstate = 1
> \XeTeXinterchartoks 0 1 {\begingroup\zhfam}
> \XeTeXinterchartoks 1 0 {\endgroup}
> \XeTeXinterchartoks 255 1 {\begingroup\zhfam}
> \XeTeXinterchartoks 1 255 {\endgroup}
>
> \begin{document}
> Here is some text: \begingroup\zhfam 多項式函數: \endgroup
> \\
> Now is the time to write: 多項式函數:
> \\
> \end{document} 
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