[XeTeX] Getting completely the wrong glyphs when using characters from Latin Extended B

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 18.01.2010 um 16:41 schrieb Philip TAYLOR:

> In an earlier thread (see below), Joanthan Kew said
> that string quotes were necessary if one was trying
> to reference a TTF/OTF/Type-1 font rather than a
> TFM-based (TeX) font.  How, then, does \setmainfont
> know whether I want a TTF/OTF/Type-1 font rather than a
> TFM-based (TeX) font if I am not permitted to use quotation
> marks to indicate that I want the former ?


The quotes are needed when you use (Xe)TeX primitives (\font 
\fontname...) with some automatisms attached to it, the quotes are too  
much when you use fontspec. \setmainfont is a fontspec command.

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