[XeTeX] Getting completely the wrong glyphs when using characters from Latin Extended B
Peter Dyballa
Peter_Dyballa at web.de
Tue Jan 19 15:09:53 CET 2010
Am 18.01.2010 um 21:06 schrieb Philip TAYLOR:
> how does fontspec "know what I want" ? Given a simple, unquoted,
> name such as Optima, how can fontspec know whether I want to use
> my Type-1 version or a TFM-based version ?
I pretty much assume it does not! Because it makes no sense to load
fonts in proprietary and very restricted encodings into a Unicode text
document. Fontspec's fallback is Latin Modern though – in OTF.
You have, with fontspec not exactly using for this, the choice to use
NFSS2 to select a TeX font. OK, the introduction in the fontspec
manual does not verbosely tells this, and maybe Will needs to add
another paragraph, but by pure contemplating you can deduce that the
TeX fonts have no spec(ification)s that you can choose via
fontspec(ification) and select a particular font this way. (TeX fonts
are specified by the use of letters and digits. They don't have any
tables, not even a CMap.)
To express it in other words: by using fontspec you "restrict"
yourself to your system's fonts.
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Pete
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