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Dear XeTeX community,<BR>
<BR>
I've been trying to use the IEEEtran.cls to write an article paper in _french_.<BR>
So my guess was to just load the xltxtra & polyglossia packages in my document:<BR>
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<TT>\usepackage{xltxtra}</TT><BR>
<TT>\usepackage{polyglossia}</TT><BR>
<TT>\setdefaultlanguage{french}</TT><BR>
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This solves the accentuation part, but introduces ugly spacing & font in the process. I've<BR>
attached samples output of "before" and "after" loading the xltxtra package.<BR>
<BR>
I also tried changing the font, by issuing using these commands:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}<BR>
\setromanfont{Linux Libertine O}<BR>
\setsansfont{Linux Biolinum O}<BR>
\setmonofont[Scale=0.8]{DejaVu Sans Mono}<BR>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<BR>
But this fails, when encountering the IEEEtran's \IEEEPARstart defined macro, as shown in the following<BR>
error message output:<BR>
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<TT>(./out/bare_jrnl.aux)kpathsea: Invalid fontname `Linux at ', contains ' '</TT><BR>
<BR>
<TT>! Font \@IEEEPARstartsubfont=""Linux at "" not loadable: Metric (TFM) file or i</TT><BR>
<TT>nstalled font not found.</TT><BR>
<TT><to be read again> </TT><BR>
<TT> \@IEEEtrantmpdimenA </TT><BR>
<TT>l.75 \IEEEPARstart{C}{e}</TT><BR>
<TT> fichier de démonstration est un «~fichier de dé...</TT><BR>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<BR>
It seems like this function does not like my font name having spaces in it (Linux Libertine O).<BR>
I'm digging in the IEEEtran.cls right now, but I'm no expert so it's a slow process.<BR>
<BR>
Any help would be much appreciated,<BR>
<BR>
Maxim
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