[XeTeX] supplying missing glyphs?

[Pander]

On 2010-12-06 12:35, Michiel Kamermans wrote:
> Adam,
> 
> On 12/2/2010 4:20 PM, Adam McCollum wrote:
>> Dear list members,
>> I like the Hoefler Text font very much, but I see that it apparently
>> doesn't have glyphs for a number of letters with diacritics, which I
>> sometimes need for transliteration; please see the example text below.
>> I've tried both unicode entry and the TeX way for entering these. Is
>> there any way at all to "fake" these glyphs or otherwise supply them?

Send a bug report to the maintainers.

> My thought would be to simply use a different font for those characters,
> by making use of the interchartok functionality of XeTeX. I do this for
> Chinese transliteration when I'm using Palatino Linotype as base font.
> It has virtually no extended Latin characters, so I rely on FreeSerif
> for the additional characters (and Caslon Pro for quotation, because
> Palatino's quotation symbols are dreadfully ugly).
> 
> The snippet of preamble relevant to this:
> 
> \XeTeXinterchartokenstate = 1
> 
> % set up the fonts
> \newfontfamily{\mainlatinfont}{Palatino Linotype}
> \newfontfamily{\extlatinfont}{FreeSerif}
> \newfontfamily{\quotefont}{Adobe Caslon Pro}
> 
> % character classes (xetex  has 5 predefined classes: latin=0,
> cjk=1,2,3, boundary=255)
> \newcommand{\extlatinclass}{\newcharclass}
> \newcommand{\quoteclass}{\newcharclass}
> 
> % extended latin characters not found in Palatino
> \XeTeXcharclass `\ǒ \extlatinclass
> ...
> % quotation looks dreadful in Palatino
> \XeTeXcharclass `\’ \quoteclass
> \XeTeXcharclass `\‚ \quoteclass
> \XeTeXcharclass `\“ \quoteclass
> \XeTeXcharclass `\” \quoteclass
> 
> % transition to latin (including boundary)
> \XeTeXinterchartoks \extlatinclass 0 = {\mainlatinfont}
> \XeTeXinterchartoks \quoteclass 0 = {\mainlatinfont}
> \XeTeXinterchartoks \quoteclass 255 = {\mainlatinfont}
> 
> % transitions to extended latin
> \XeTeXinterchartoks 0 \extlatinclass = {\extlatinfont}
> \XeTeXinterchartoks \quoteclass \extlatinclass = {\extlatinfont}
> 
> % transitions to quotation
> \XeTeXinterchartoks 0 \quoteclass = {\quotefont}
> \XeTeXinterchartoks \extlatinclass \quoteclass = {\quotefont}
> 
> - Mike "Pomax" Kamermans
> nihongoresources.com
> 
> 
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