[OS X TeX] Accented characters in Xe(La)TeX
Ross Moore
ross.moore at mq.edu.au
Sat May 29 01:19:48 CEST 2010
Hello Clea,
On 29/05/2010, at 9:04 AM, Dr. Clea F. Rees wrote:
> Could somebody point me towards documentation explaining the way that
> Xe(La)TeX finds and uses fonts and/or typesets characters?
>
> I'm specifically interested in a couple of things:
>
> 1) persuading XeLaTeX to typeset accented characters correctly when
> using non-default fonts (e.g. ^W, ^Y, ^w, ^y, "W, "w etc. in
> Skia, Venturis ADF, Hoefler Text etc. as opposed to Latin Modern);
These are all Unicode characters, so provided the font supports them
and you have loaded \usepackage{fontspec}
(which in turn calls \usepackage{xunicode} )
then it should just work with the usual TeX accent macros:
\^W \^Y \^w \^y \"W \"w etc.
Of course you need to use fontspec's commands for
setting the fonts to be used in your document.
>
> 2) identifying which font files XeLaTeX is using in a particular run
> (pdfTeX gives at least some of this information e.g. it lists the TTF
> or PFB files it used but I don't know how to get XeLaTeX to do this);
XeTeX doesn't do it directly.
Rather it passes this task to the OS, which gets it from
/Library/Fonts just like any other Mac application.
>
> 3) understanding how to work out how to access particular features in
> OTF fonts e.g. OSF in Venturis ADF (as opposed to OSF in Skia which
> seems unproblematic), for example.
Join the XeTeX mailing list.
This is all discussed there, so you can find it in the Archives.
http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
>
> I'd really like a pointer to some straightforward documentation.
> fontspec and the font-info are not giving me the answers I had hoped
> for!
The XeTeX list is the correct place for such a question.
>
> Thanks very much,
> cfr
>
> (And apologies for having so many questions and offering no answers!)
No apology needed for that. :-)
Hope this helps,
Ross
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