[texworks] Defining scripts for Unicode ranges
David Perry
hospes.primus at verizon.net
Sat May 23 19:25:16 CEST 2009
Today I was working with a document that contains samples of several
languages. The font I use for most editing doesn't support all these
scripts, and I thought it would be nicer to display the actual
characters in TeXwork's editor rather than little boxes (even though the
little boxes compile just fine). I tried using the Format/Font dialog to
define fonts to use only for Greek, Hebrew, etc., but it didn't work. I
tried selecting the script first, then the font, and then vice versa,
but all that happened was that the entire editing window was displayed
in the new font.
Am I missing something? Or is this dialog box not intended for what I
thought it was? In any case, I think this would be a very nice feature
for a Unicode-centered program like TeXworks to have. If it's too much
work to implement this by listing every Unicode script (now a long
list), perhaps there could be a fallback mechanism; the user could tell
TeXworks to check one or two specific fonts if the main editing font
doesn't have certain glyphs.
A bit more experimenting shows that there is some sort of fallback
mechanism in place now, since I set the editing font to one that I know
doesn't have Greek and Hebrew, but both were correctly displayed--albeit
in an ugly font. But TeXworks couldn't locate either of the two fonts I
have that contain Old Italic. What's happening here?
Thanks - David
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