Hi Jonathan,<br><br>Thanks very much for your reply. It really helps! I hope I could find these useful stuffs in XeTeX's reference manual :-)<br><br>Thank you again for your efforts in making such a wonderful TeX engine.
<br><br>Regards!<br><br>-Yin<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jonathan Kew</b> <<a href="mailto:jonathan_kew@sil.org">jonathan_kew@sil.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Yin Dian, ni hao!<br><br>Thanks for your reports. A couple of items I can answer immediately:<br><br>> 1. I wish XeTeX 0.997 could provide a means to determine the<br>> character class number for a given character, for example, a
<br>> primitive \XeTeXgetcharclass, which expands to the class number of<br>> the following char slot.<br><br>You should be able to use \the\XeTeXcharclass NNN, where NNN is a<br>character number, to access this (just like examining a character's
<br>\catcode, \lccode, etc.):<br><br> \immediate\write16{char "61 has class \the\XeTeXcharclass "61 }<br> \immediate\write16{char "6161 has class \the\XeTeXcharclass "6161 }<br><br><br>> 3. I suggest XeTeX can provide interfaces to use dvipdfmx's font
<br>> slant and stretch feature<br><br>With XeTeX 0.997, you can use "slant=XXX" and "extend=YYY" as font<br>attributes, as in<br><br> \font\x = "Charis SIL:extend=1.5;slant=0.25" at 12pt
<br> \x This is slanted and extended text.<br><br>(This was not available in the 0.996 release or earlier;<br>documentation needs to catch up!)<br><br><br>I will look into your other suggestions and bug reports, and hope to
<br>make improvements in the future. Thanks for your valuable feedback!<br><br>JK<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>XeTeX mailing list<br><a href="mailto:postmaster@tug.org">postmaster@tug.org</a><br>
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