[XeTeX] Insert Smileys in XeLaTeX

[Zdenek Wagner]

2014-12-16 12:24 GMT+01:00 Marek Stepanek <marek at munich-taxis.de>:
>
>
> Hello all!
>
>
> It's quite a while, that I am reading this newsgroup. But I was always
> using LaTeX. Now I am close to switch to XeLaTeX or even XeTeX.
>
> I want to offer for Christmas a large dialogue with SMS put into a
> LaTeX-file. And it turns out to be a huge problem, because one day my
> girl-friend discovered the icons and smileys on her iPhone ... You
> imagine the disaster :-)
>
> My first step was going to wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XeTeX
>
> I put together a test file, based on the first example. I replaced the
> "Linux Libertine O", which is not installed on my computer, with Lucida
> Grande. This font is displaying these smileys well in my text editor
> BBEdit and my Terminal too (with an other font: Menlo Regular), but not
> in the compiled XeLaTeX-file.
>
I do not see all your smileys on my computer which means that I do not
have a proper font installed. What you should do first is to make sure
that Lucida Grande really contains the characters. Visibility in a
text editor is not a good proof. Font rendering engines usually work
in such a way that if a character is not present in the current font,
they render it using a replacement font. The idea is that a reasonable
character in a reasonable font must always be displayed. However,
Xe(La)TeX does not do that. If a character is missing, it is treated
as a missing character exactly as in the original 8-bit TeX. You
should display the character map by some application and verify
existence. You can use fontforge. If you use gucharmap, you have to
right-click to the character in order to find which font was used for
rendering it.

Hope this hepls.

Zdeněk Wagner
http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz



> Here my example:
>
> - And thank you for your help - it is urgent - for obvious reasons :-)
>
>
> marek
>
>
> ***
>
> \documentclass[11pt]{article}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> % from an other example to test the smiley:
> %\usepackage{txfonts}
> % not installed:
> % \setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX]{Linux Libertine O}
> % and here are some Problems:
> % \setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX]{Menlo Regular}
> \setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX]{Lucida Grande}
> \begin{document}
> \section{Unicode support}
>
> \subsection{English}
> All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
>
> \subsection{Íslenska}
> Hver maður er borinn frjáls og jafn öðrum að virðingu og réttindum.
>
> \subsection{Русский}
> Все люди рождаются свободными и равными в своем достоинстве и
> правах.
>
> \subsection{Tiếng Việt}
> Tất cả mọi người sinh ra đều được tự do và bình đẳng về nhân phẩm và
> quyền lợi.
>
> \subsection{Ελληνικά}
> Ὅλοι οἱ ἄνθρωποι γεννιοῦνται ἐλεύθεροι καὶ ἴσοι στὴν ἀξιοπρέπεια
> καὶ τὰ δικαιώματα.
>
> \section{Legacy syntax}
> When he goes---``Hello World!''\\
> She replies—“Hello dear!”
>
> % \section{Ligatures}
> % \fontspec[Ligatures={Common, Historical}]{Lucida Grande Bold}
> % Questo è strano assai!
>
> % \section{Numerals}
> % \fontspec[Numbers={OldStyle}]{Lucida Grande}Old style: 1234567\\
> % \fontspec[Numbers={Lining}]{Lucida Grande}Lining: 1234567
>
> \section{Smileys}
> �� - �� - ������������ - �� - ���� - �� - �� - ������ - ���������� ...
>
> \end{document}
>
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