[XeTeX] XeLaTeX font options

Rembrandt Wolpert wolpert at uark.edu
Tue May 18 12:43:14 CEST 2010


The fonts are available from the foundry. You may wish to investigate
Hoefler & Frere-Jones at

http://www.typography.com/fonts/font_styles.php?productLineID=100010&cpuCount=1

They seem to cost US$ 299 for a single licence (but you use them much longer
than your present computer. They (legally) migrate :-)).

/rfw




On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:36, Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 18 May 2010, at 10:27, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> >>
> >> As an aside, is there any place where I can find the Hoefler Text font
> >> for Linux (or in .otf format)? I think that this serif font has a lot
> >> of different options and ligatures and I enjoy to play around with
> >> those. Or maybe there are other serif fonts that offer such a wide
> >> variety of options? For me it's a good way to learn about font
> >> varieties with gorgeous texts as an added bonus.
>
> There are numerous fonts with advanced layout options these days, both
> commercial (e.g., the Adobe "Pro" fonts tend to have quite a few features)
> and free (one of my favorites is Calluna, by Jos Buivenga; the Regular face
> is available free).
>
> >
> > Get yourself an intel based Mac (to be able to run virtual instances of
> other operating systems) and install Leopard (Tiger is too old, Snow Leopard
> uses a proprietary font format). When running some Solaris, BSD, Linux you
> might be able to use the Hoefler fonts. Maybe it works to copy them from the
> bought Mac OS 10.5.4 (best price) DVD with its install packages.
>
> Two points: First, this wouldn't work as you suggest, because the Hoefler
> Text font on OS X uses AAT tables for its various layout features, and this
> technology is only supported by xetex on OS X, not on Linux.
>
> Second, this would clearly be a violation of the OS X license, and as such
> I think it's quite inappropriate to be suggesting it at all.
>
> > Or just buy them, if available.
>
> Note that it would be necessary to find versions with OpenType layout
> tables rather than AAT, if they're intended for use on Linux.
>
> JK
>
>
>
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