[XeTeX] [OT] [ANN] FPL Neu OpenType

Jonathan Kew jonathan_kew at sil.org
Mon Jul 3 14:53:09 CEST 2006


On 3 Jul 2006, at 1:36 pm, Will Robertson wrote:

> On 02/07/2006, at 1:50 , Ralf Stubner wrote:
>
>> A prerelease version (version 0.9.4) can be found
>
> Hi Ralf,
>
> Can't claim to have looked into the specifics here:
> I expected
>    \font\1="FPL Neu" at 36pt\1 test
> to work but I was only successful with
>    \font\1="FPL Neu Roman" at 36pt\1 test
>
> XeTeX *should* be able to select the font based on its family name,
> but here it fails...

It works for me (on Mac OS X) using the current xetex code; but there  
have been significant changes in this area since the 0.994 release,  
so that's probably why.

Guess I need to tie up some loose ends and release 0.995 soon....

JK




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