[XeTeX] Gentium, Tironian Et, and XeTeX

[David Perry]

Hi Chris,

The problem is that Gentium does not contain the character in question; 
nothing to do with XeTeX.  I copied your file into Notepad and up popped 
the Tironian et.  Try Cardo, Alphabetum, Junicode, or Code 2000.  (The 
latter is a good test to isolate whether it's a font issue or something 
else, since it contains everything in Unicode, although the characters 
are sometimes a little rough.)

If you are on a Mac, Lucida Grande has it; also the Character Palette 
will show you which fonts contain any character.

David

Chris Yocum wrote:
> Greetings Everyone,
>      I have recently switched from using pdflatex to xelatex as it
> provided some characters that I could not use in normal latex.  The
> one that I really wanted to be able to include in my documents was the
> "Tironian et" which appears often in my line of work.  I had taken
> some advice from the texhax mail list from years ago to use the number
> 7 in italic.  That got me through my thesis.  However, I found that
> when I attempted to use XeTeX with the Gentium font provided by SIL on
> XeTeX, it just left an empty space in the PDF where the symbol should
> be.  I tested the PDF in Evince, xPDF, and Acrobat 9 so I know it is
> not the viewer but something with XeTeX itself.  I have attached a
> minimal example that uses it so you can see the effect.  Any
> advice/comments would be gratefully received.
> 
> Thank You,
> Chris Yocum