[XeTeX] specifying two fonts

[Zdenek Wagner]

2011/12/1 Matthew Overland <matthewoverland at gmail.com>:
> Dear all
>
> I am trying to learn xelatex after being given a large document that has
> greek, english and simplified Chinese.  I can get most things working but am
> stuck on one point.
>
> I don't know how to get BOTH the greek and mandarin displayed in the
> document
>
> When I use the \setmainfont command I can only specify one type of font.
> The problem is that all of the greek fonts don't contain fonts for the
> chinese characters, and the chinese fontns don't contain all of the greek
> fonts (including capitals and diacritic marks).  I can't get both the
> chinese and greek displayed at the same time.
>
> The Chinese and Greek is not in blocks, it alternates throughout the
> document so I would prefer not to have to tag each instance where I have to
> assign the font for the section.
>
> Is there a way to specify two types of fonts for the document?  i.e. one for
> the western (including Greek) character set and one for the CJK character
> set.  It is possible to do it in libreoffice.  Even better, is it possible
> to specify a font for a set range of unicode characters?
>
> This is probably the first of a series of questions.  Thanks in advance.
>
You can try package ucharclasses, it is probably exactly what you want.

> Matthew
>
>
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