[XeTeX] default char classes
Sven Siegmund
sven.siegmund at gmail.com
Sun Mar 9 12:28:59 CET 2008
François, please point me to some site where I can see which
Polyglossia you are speaking about.
S.
2008/3/9, François Charette <firmicus at ankabut.net>:
> Sven Siegmund a écrit :
> > Hi Barry,
> >
> > have you considered the option of the fontspec package to define
> > shortcuts for selecting fonts? You take Adobe Garamond Pro as the main
> > font:
> >
> > \setmainfont{Adobe Garamond Pro}
> >
> > and if you want Adobe hebrew for short runs of Hebrew text, you can
> > define a font selection command, e.g. \heb:
> >
> > \newfontfamily{\heb}[Script=Hebrew]{Adobe Hebrew}
> >
> >
> > It's just that you have to select the font manually every time the
> > Script changes. I can imagine, if you do this 5 time on a page, you
> > eventually want XeTeX or fontspec to be more intelligent and recognize
> > the script used just by the code values of Characters used. Yes, that
> > would be great. I jsut can't judge how much effort it would take to
> > enable that.
> >
> > S.
> >
> >
>
> Polyglossia makes this more automatic: Suppose your main text is in
> English and you have passages or insertions in, say, Russian and Hebrew.
> Assuming you have defined \newfontfamily\hebrewfont[Script=Hebrew]{Some
> Hebrew Font}, and that your main font also contains the glyphs for
> cyrillic, then by switching the language to Russian, polyglossia will
> automatically turn on the font features for the cyrillic script and the
> russian language (if available in the font). And for Hebrew, it will
> automatically select the \hebrewfont you have defined.
>
>
> FC
>
>
>
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