[lucida] [Fwd: Re: Lucida & Unicode — lualatex/OTF/UTF-8]

[Herbert Voss]

Calum Mackay schrieb:
> hi Herbert,
>
> Unfortunately, your method seems at odds with the lucida-otf pkg (or
> vice versa!); if I add:
>
> 	\usepackage{lucida-otf}
>
> to your example below, it chokes on the ⅙:

Sure, then Unicode-math is loaded by default and the frac feature
has another meaning. You have to use it in math mode and it
will be printed as a real fraction. However, with unicode-math
you can use the range option and define explicitly a character.

Herbert


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> l.10 ⅙
>         ℃  \& ℉
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> On 22/01/2019 8:49 pm, Herbert Voss wrote:
>> Am 22.01.19 um 21:16 schrieb Calum Mackay:
>>
>>> e.g. from a recent doc, I was using ⅙, ℃ & ℉. Interestingly, I note
>>> that \textcelsius doesn't display either, but \textdegree does, which
>>> could then be followed by C/F.
>>>
>>> What do others do?
>>>
>>> I'm aware of Lucida Grande having some Unicode chars and, indeed, have
>>> it on my Mac as a system font. But it's not part of the TUG Lucida
>>> set, and it's a sans font.
>>>
>>> Currently I'm doing:
>>>
>>>      \newfontface\myunicodefont[Scale=MatchLowercase]{Libertinus Serif}
>>>      % we want this command to be “long”,
>>>      % i.e. to be able to span paragraphs
>>>      \newcommand\myunicode[1]{{\myunicodefont #1}}
>>>
>>> and then etc:
>>>
>>>      \myunicode{⅙}
>>>
>>> but that's clunky.
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there a way to tell LuaLaTeX to fall-back to a given font, if a
>>> char isn't available in the currently-selected font?
>>
>> \documentclass{book}
>> \usepackage{fontspec}
>> \setmainfont{Lucida Bright OT}
>> \usepackage{newunicodechar}
>> \newfontfamily\Lib{Libertinus Serif}
>> \newunicodechar{⅙}{{\Lib ⅙}}
>> \newunicodechar{℃}{{\Lib℃}}
>> \newunicodechar{℉}{{\Lib℉}}
>> \begin{document}
>> ⅙ ℃  \& ℉
>> \end{document}
>>
>>
>> Herbert
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