[OS X TeX] XeTeX and unicode characters

[Herb Schulz]

On 1/30/05 3:56 PM, "Peter Pagin" <peter.pagin at philosophy.su.se> wrote:

> Hi,
> I now learned about XeTeX, installed it with the i-package and it works!
> Marvelous! I can use the font families I have on my Mac.
> 
> There is one thing that doesn't work, however, and I don't understand
> why. The Swedish characters e.g. å, ä, ö (corresponding to the codes
> \"a, \aa, and \~o) typed into the input file work fine with LaTeX
> typesetting in TeXShop with the utf8 encoding. When I switch to XeLaTeX,
> I get error messages that these characters are not set up for use with
> LaTeX. Does anyone understand why?
> 
> I think I have set the preferences according to instructions.
> 
> Best,
> Peter
> 

Howdy,

If you are using the usual LaTeX codes (\"a, etc.) you need should try to
set fonts using the fontspec package. E.g.,

\usepackage{fontspec}
\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text} % <- this uses the LaTeX commands
\setromanfont[Numbers=Lining,Scale=1.05]{Hoefler Text}
\setsansfont[Scale=1.02]{Gill Sans}

You can get it from Will Robertson's page,
<http://www.mecheng.adelaide.edu.au/~will/tex/>. It is also available at
<http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=xetex_rela
ted> along with Ross Moore's necessary utf8accents package.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)

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