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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Hello all</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">I'm still experiencing some trouble with
XeTeX (run in plain TeX rather than LaTeX) and fonts on my Windows system.
When accessing fonts that show up normally in Windows applications such as Word
I find some of them work while others crash XeTeX, without any obvious
common factor. Not much of a worry since the ones that do the
crashing are not generally fonts that I want to use anyway. In
trying out the outline font Minion Pro (the version that comes with Adobe
Acrobat Reader, located in its Resource directory), which I _would_ probably
want to use, I find - as per an early message of mine - that XeTeX crashes if I
use the font name but not if I go directly to the .otf font file using square
brackets round the file name. Again this doesn't much bother me (except
that I'd like to know why it happens!), but I've now found that although the
five standard ligatures are achieved automatically (ff, fi etc.), the en and em
dashes are not picked up either by the usual -- and --- or by explicitly using
an ASCII en or em dash in the input file (-- and --- just give double and triple
hyphens in the PDF, the true en and em dashes both give single
hyphens).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Is there any way to make XeTeX see the dashes
automatically? I've just discovered that they don't work in Times New
Roman either, which is usually a pretty reliable font to test things on. I
have a nasty feeling that I'm going to have trouble with quotation marks
too!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Relatedly, is there some extended version of
testfont.tex that would generate a PDF of all the characters in a given
font? (The helpful PDF guide to XeTeX by Jonathan Kew in the TeXLive
distribution mentions a number of sample .TEX files that might be of
help here, but I can't find any of them, either in TeXLive or indeed anywhere at
all on the Internet: they have perhaps been withdrawn in the current
version.)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Best</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">John</FONT></DIV>
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