[XeTeX] XeTeX Digest, Vol 48, Issue 13

[Will Robertson]

On 09/03/2008, at 3:08 PM, Barry MacKichan wrote:

> \setmainfont[UprightFont={Hebrew={Adobe Hebrew},CJK={NSimSun}}]{Adobe
> Garamond Pro]

This idea has sparked some very interesting discussion on both sides  
of the fence. With regard to fontspec, however, it isn't going to  
happen :)

Like Jonathan says, there's more going on here than just changing the  
font -- it's much more related to changing the language, which is  
better handled by polyglossia or perhaps another package again that  
uses char classes in association with polyglossia.

However, no-one's answered my question about the default char classes :)
Is it to inefficient to have predefined char classes for the entire  
unicode range?
Perhaps a better idea would be to allocate char classes dynamically  
when needed and assign them using names instead.

\newcharclass{hebrew}
\assigncharclass{hebrew}{"09472-"F3621}

for example. (Numbers completely made up :))
Named ranges could also be used:

\assigncharclass{hebrew}{HebrewWithPunctuation}

Just throwing ideas around :)

Best regards,
Will
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