[XeTeX] fontspec limits

[Will Robertson]

On 17 Dec 2004, at 7:50 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> Thanks for bringing this up, I hadn't tried such a loop. I notice that 
> [...] repeatedly specifying a tfm-based font [works fine], but a 
> similar example with an AAT font fails [...] I'd consider this a XeTeX 
> bug, and will see what I can do to correct it.

Ah, nice to see I can offload my problem to you ;)
I should try and make my package more efficient, however.
The command I proposed is very easy to implement (although I harbour 
some fears of feature-bloat in the future). I'll probably call it 
\newfontinstance, however.

Regards,
Will