[XeTeX] cannot get Hoefler text to work with XeTeX

[Fr. Michael Gilmary]

David E. Thiel wrote:

> Argh, so *that's* why I never got that to work. I had to make new a new
> font family that just used lining numbers. What's the proper way to
> access the lining number glyphs from LaTeX in the default Hoefler Text?
>
>
>   

If you're using Xe(La)TeX on Mac OS X, then you can find the glyph IDs 
with the character palette and input using \XeTeXglyph<number>. For 
example, to type out the current year, 2009:

\XeTeXglyph317 \XeTeXglyph315 \XeTeXglyph315 \XeTeXglyph324

However, this is a very bulky and non-portable way to get lining 
numbers. It seems to be *one* of the problems with Hoefler Text.

I'm not sure what to do if you're on another operating system.

Hope that helps.


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