[OS X TeX] XeLatex accents (revisited?)

[Hans van Maanen]

Hi --

Aha. I'm slowly getting there... Having my cake and eat it, huh?

I have your Open Type Latin Modern fonts, Will, and they work great. 
But then there's another catch, I think: the \fontspec works best with 
TrueType. If you take \fontspec{Hoefler Text}, the machine knows it has 
to use italic for \itshape etcetera. But with an Open Type font, you 
have to define them by hand like [Italic={Latin Modern-Italic]{...} or 
\font\2\=...

Am I right?

Hans

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On 7 feb 2005, at 01:48, Will Robertson wrote:

> On 7 Feb 2005, at 8:05 AM, Hans van Maanen wrote:
>
>> \documentclass[12pt]{book}
>> \usepackage{fontspec}
>> \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
>> \usepackage[dutch]{babel}
>> \usepackage[applemac]{inputenc}
>
> This line is totally incorrect in an XeTeX document -- remove it 
> entirely and save the file in unicode instead.
>
>> \begin{document}
>> Hell\"o world
>> \end{document}
>
> The problem is the fact that fontspec loads the utf8accents package, 
> which redefines the legacy accent commands to correspond to unicode 
> references. Since CM isn't unicode-encoded, it breaks.
>
> So, the only way to fix it is to modify your copy of fontspec.sty and 
> comment out the \usepackage{utf8accents} line, but this will mean that 
> for any unicode fonts you load you'll need to use unicode characters 
> for accents ø î ü etc.
>
> Actually, I just though of another fix.
> If you have the Latin Modern fonts converted to OpenType (i-Installer 
> can do it, or you can download my custom set from 
> <www.mecheng.adelaide.edu.au/~will/tex/>) then loading these instead 
> of CM will give you access to accents while using the utf8accents 
> package. Nice!
>
> Regards,
> Will
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