[XeTeX] XeLaTeX font selection

[Will Robertson]

Hi all

I've put together a crop of new font definition (.fd) files and 
packages for easily using Mac OS X fonts in XeTeX-based LaTeX. Get them 
from
    <http://www.mecheng.adelaide.edu.au/~will/tex/>

The examples show the list of fonts included so far and the commands 
currently used to access their features; all you need to do in your 
document is, for example,

    \usepackage{cochin}

or {baskerville} or {helveticaneue} or whatever. Until I (et al. or 
whoever) can work out a good method for switching between upper and 
lower case numbers (lining and old style), and for using small caps, 
and how to choose between almost arbitrary font weights, it's going to 
be a bit clunky for those fancy fonts like Hoefler Text (although that 
works fairly well at present) that we so would like to use.

In the meantime, if you'd like to send me .fd files for other fonts, 
I'd be more than happy to add them to the collection. I'm thinking 
primarily of the other fonts in Mac OS X and the common free fonts such 
as Luxi and Lucida. (I can't devote too much time to this at present.) 
Look at osxcochin.fd for an easy example - with an associated .sty file 
(even easier) - it's a piece of cake on an individual basis.

Regards,
Will Robertson