[XeTeX] XeTeX vertical text layout support (for Linux & win32 users)

Jjgod Jiang gzjjgod at gmail.com
Wed Jun 21 15:13:46 CEST 2006


Hi Will,

I would like to spend more time on this and prepare a LaTeX document
with samples using these features. But I'm busy preparing for exam this
week. I hope I can send you the sample document (and PDF) this weekend.

2006/6/19, Will Robertson <wspr81 at gmail.com>:
> On 19/06/2006, at 19:32 , Jjgod Jiang wrote:
>
> > Oops.. "AdobeSongStd-Light:vertical:script=hani" looks acceptable for
> > me now. (The font has the following features:
> >
> > # otfinfo -f --script=hani /usr/share/fonts/OTF/AdobeSongStd-Light.otf
> > aalt    Access All Alternates
> > cpct    <unknown feature>
> > dlig    Discretionary Ligatures
> > fwid    Full Widths
> > halt    Alternate Half Widths
> > hwid    Half Widths
> > nalt    Alternate Annotation Forms
> > pwid    Proportional Widths
> > trad    Traditional Forms
> > vert    Vertical Writing
> > vhal    Alternate Vertical Half Metrics
> > vrt2    Vertical Alternates and Rotation)
>
> By the way, fontspec supports most of these font features, but I'm
> really interested to see how they're used in practice. If you're
> using fontspec and things could be better (better names, or better
> organisation or whatever), please let me know!
>
> All the best,
>
> Will
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