[OS X TeX] From Textures to XeTeX

[Jonathan Kew]

On 14 Oct 2004, at 1:14 pm, Simon Spiegel wrote:

>
> On 14.10.2004, at 14:07, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>
>> On 14 Oct 2004, at 1:05 pm, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>>
>>> It's also no longer necessary to convert special TeX ligatures to 
>>> their UTF-8 equivalents, like --, --- to – and —, the latest version 
>>> of XeTeX (0.88) does this automagically (no special package 
>>> required).
>>
>> ....provided that you specify "mapping=tex-text" as an option when 
>> loading Unicode fonts.
>>
>>
> Can you please elaborate on that? Where do I have to put this? In the 
> .fd files? At \usepackage{fontpackage}?
>

It needs to ultimately be part of the \font definition that XeTeX sees, 
as in

	\font\myfont="Lucida Grande:mapping=tex-text" at 12pt

For integration with LaTeX/NFSS, it should be put into the .fd files 
where the actual font name is specified. (People writing support 
packages for OS X fonts might want to provide a way to load them either 
with or without such a mapping; I guess that's for .sty/.fd authors to 
consider.)

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