[XeTeX] The future of XeTeX

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Tue Jul 31 22:56:14 CEST 2012


2012/7/31 David Perry <hospes.primus at verizon.net>:
>
>
> On 7/31/2012 11:59 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
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>> No where is it stated in the manual that you do not need to set up the
>> font families.
>
>
> I'll grant that the Fontspec manual can be intimidating, especially for
> newcomers to TeX (as I was when I encountered it).  However, it does say in
> section 4.1 of the Fontspec manual:
>
> <quote>
> The simplest example might be something like
>         \fontspec[ ... ]{Cambria}
> in which the bold and italic fonts will be found automatically (if they
> exist) and are immediately accessible with the usual \textit and \textbf
> commands.
> <\quote>
>
I have about 300 commercial fonts and I always do it like that. I have
never needed to set up the font families. The fontspec package just
works. Good fonts work out of the box.

> David
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