[XeTeX] Slightly embarrassed.... why does \newfontfamily not do what I expect?

[Ross Moore]

On 21/11/2009, at 1:05 PM, Wilfred van Rooijen wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The "problem" happens in a table. In the following example, the 日 
> 本語 appears in the normal text, but not in the table (?)

You need to use \setromanfont
to establish a font family for the whole document,
at all sizes, within all environments, except for
any that you override with other font-switch commands.

>
> \documentclass[a4paper,draft,oneside,article]{memoir}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \usepackage{hyperref}

\setromanfont{Kozuka Mincho Pr6N}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> %\newfontfamily\cjkfont{Kozuka Mincho Pr6N}
> %\cjkfont
>
> English, Nederlands, 日本語. But in a table:
>
> \begin{table}[ht]
>   \begin{center}
>   \caption[]{The caption}
>     \begin{tabular}{ccc}
>     English & Nederlands & 日本語 \\
>     \end{tabular}
>   \end{center}
> \end{table}
>
> \end{document}
>
> If I put \cjkfont just prior to the 日本語 in the table, the  
> characters do show up. I guess some font settings happen when going  
> into a table? Is it maybe that the font-size is smaller for table  
> entries?
>
> Cheers,
> Wilfred


Hope this helps,

	Ross

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