[XeTeX] On cross-language font selection

[Jjgod Jiang]

Hi Jonathan,

2007/2/24, Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew at sil.org>:
> However, I also have some good news! :) A new feature planned for
> XeTeX 0.997 will make it easy to implement automatic font switching
> for many simple situations, such as a mixture of Chinese and English,
> with no need for embedded markup. This is *not* a general-purpose
> "font collections" model, or a universal solution to multi-script
> text, but should be a big help for many of the common cases people
> try to implement with active characters, etc. Basically, it allows
> you to "hook in" extra code (such as glue, penalties, font changes,
> etc) between characters of the text, based on character classes
> assigned to each Unicode value.

Any progress on this? I'm looking forward to try that :)

- jjgod.