[OS X TeX] Loss of Greek Porson font functionality

[Ross Moore]

Hello John,

On 11/12/2007, at 10:16 AM, John McChesney-Young wrote:

>
> --- David Derbes <loki at uchicago.edu> wrote in part:
>
>> ... I guess I should jump to MacTeX, and hope
>> that I don't have to
>> reinstall other stuff.
>
> Not to discourage you from moving up to MacTeX, but
> another option would be to switch to the regular GFS
> Porson font:
>
> http://www.greekfontsociety.org/pages/en_typefaces19th.html
>
> and use XeTeX, as here:
>
> %&program=xelatex
> %&encoding=UTF-8 Unicode
>
> \documentclass{minimal}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \setmainfont{GFS Porson}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> Σημεῖόν
> ἐστιν, οὗ
> μέρος
> οὐθέν.

To make sense of this, copy the above 4 lines directly into the
source of an HTML page; view it in a browser,
then Copy/Paste into a LaTeX source document.

>
> \end{document}

The attached  .tex  file is built from the result of this,
using all 26 fonts available as .otf from the GFS site.
It gives the correct OpenType names to use with each font and style.

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>
> John
>
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