The parameter is the glyph index, which is the reason that the result is font dependent; if you change font, there is no guarantee that the same glyph would be printed. Actually, it would be highly atypical if the same glyph is printed when using a different font.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/2/19 Michiel Kamermans <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pomax@nihongoresources.com">pomax@nihongoresources.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Nicolas Vaughan wrote:<br>
> I followed Fr. Michael's suggestion of using \XeTeXglyph and it worked.<br>
> However, I don't know what the parameter of such command does. Is it<br>
> the glyph index? And why does Fr. Machael says it is not portable?<br>
</div></div>You cannot use it in other flavours of TeX, it's a XeTeX specific macro.<br>
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