[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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