[XeTeX] selecting feature in Devanagari MT with fontspec

[Yves Codet]

Le 6 août 05, à 18:41, Jonathan Kew a écrit :
>
> The automatic selection of bold and italic faces using the /B and /I 
> modifiers (rather than loading the fonts via explicit names) seems to 
> fail in some cases, particularly non-Latin fonts. The workaround 
> (until I fix XeTeX) is to use the fontspec BoldFont=... option to 
> specify the bold font (check the fontspec documentation in case I 
> haven't remembered this accurately).

I had to use "BoldFont", "ItalicFont" and "BoldItalic" options to be 
able to typeset my file. The Sanskrit text is alright, but the French 
text doesn't appear.

Here is a longer sample showing that:

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With an OT font, such as "Sanskrit 2003", both Sanskrit and French are 
normally displayed in the output. But perhaps it has nothing to do with 
OTity; "Sanskrit 2003" includes Latin script, "Devanagari MT" doesn't.

Best wishes,

Yves