[XeTeX] tabular troubles

[Stephen Moye]

On Tuesday, April 12, 2005, at 09:00AM, Jonas Wellendorf <Jonas.Wellendorf at cms.uib.no> wrote:

>This one is fairly basic, I presume: How do I insert at table with the 
>font specified by fontspec? I have tried to do as in the example below 
>but the table is typeset with the wrong font. I can do the tables with 
>the tabbing-environment instead, but I have the same problem with 
>linguex.sty  which I will be using a lot.
>
>Thank you,
>Jonas W.
>
>%&program=xelatex
>%&encoding=UTF-8 Unicode
>
>\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
>\usepackage{fontspec,xunicode}
>
>\begin{document}
>\fontspec{Hoefler Text}
>Why isn?t the table typeset with Hoefler?
>\begin{table}[htdp]
>\caption{default}
>\begin{center}
>\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
>\hline
>Where & is & Hoefler?\\
>\hline
>\end{tabular}
>\end{center}
>\label{default}
>\end{table}%
>\end{document}
>  
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This sort of thing had me stumped for a bit as well. 

The fix is to use \setromanfont{Hoefler Text} ***before*** \begin{document}, and to omit the \fontspec{Hoefler Text} that you have after \begin{document}. I tried you example and it now works perfectly. This is covered in the documentation.

Cheers.

Stephen Moye