[XeTeX] fontspec, xetex and Adobe Garamond & oddities

William F. Adams wadams at atlis.com
Wed Oct 27 15:20:50 CEST 2004


Okay, I've finally had a chance to really play with this. First off, 
Thanks! I'm really grateful to have XeTeX, Jon Breitenbucher's work on 
Adobe Type Classics (used that at an earlier stage, let me hit the 
ground running, works perfectly for the standard featureset) and Will 
Robertson's fontspec package.

I'm shifting my ``One Typeface: Many Fonts'' booklet from my personal 
portfolio (http://members.aol.com/willadams, also in the TeX Showcase 
at http://www.tug.org/texshowcase) and encountered a couple of strange 
thigns which I wanted to comment on:

  - documentation --- Will, you might want to mention that 
``\setromanfont'' et. al. works in the preamble, but ``\fontspec'' 
doesn't and that the latter has to come after ``\begin{document}'' 
Also, providing a minimal document to add to the templates might be 
kind of nice

  - small ampersand, Unicode FE60 --- this character doesn't seem to 
work.

The following minimal document doesn't work:

%&xelatex
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setromanfont{Adobe Garamond Pro}
\begin{document}
  ﹠
\end{document}

You get a question mark instead of the desired small ``a''

Using \& in a [LetterCase=SmallCaps] environment doesn't work either 
(you get the full-height ampersand, not the small one). Bug in quartz 
pdf or Adobe Garamond or mis-feature in xetex?

(This is all on 10.3.5)

  - TeXshop 1.35b and the glyph palette --- This used to work, allowing 
one to double-click to insert arbitrary characters, but doesn't now. 
Glad it didn't break when I was doing Candy Yiu's and Dr. Wong's paper.

There were a couple of other things, but I've got to get back to work ;)

I'm going to go ahead and forward that last separately to the OS X TeX 
list after checking on version #s.

Will(iam)

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