[XeTeX] JunkEmail: Re: XeTeX and Windows XP

[John Was]

Dear Jonathan

Thanks for that - I'll keep at it till I get there.  I thought I would use 
Arial Unicode to start with - ugly but it has all the characters.  But that 
failed, possibly just because I hadn't named the font correctly - I'm not 
used to using standard Windows fonts in TeX at all, but then, as I said, I'd 
protected myself from the complications of TeX over the years by 
transporting an implementation from one computer to another without having 
to give the installation a second thought.

Best


John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan Kew" <jonathan_kew at sil.org>
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 4:32 PM
Subject: JunkEmail: Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX and Windows XP


> On 15 May 2007, at 9:14 am, John Was wrote:
>
>> Hello Jonathan
>>
>> Well that's what I thought but I must be missing something - the
>> documentation might be on the installation somewhere but I haven't
>> found it.
>> I did locate xetex.exe which gave me the TeX prompt in a command
>> box, and I
>> typeset a simple ASCII file.  When I tried to do the same with a
>> Unicode
>> Text file it typeset it but with hundreds of missing character
>> messages in
>> the log - not surprising since without any font calls the text is
>> set in CM
>> roman.  I have not yet discovered how one actually calls a Unicode
>> font,
>
> For a Latin-script text with accented characters, etc., you should be
> able to do something like
>
>   \font\tnr = "Times New Roman" at 12pt
>   \tnr Hello world...
>
> and all the Unicode characters provided by the Windows TNR font
> should work. Similarly for whatever other fonts you have on your XP
> machine.
>
> (That's the most basic "plain" approach; for LaTeX, the fontspec
> package is unquestionably the way to go.)
>
> I'm afraid I can't advise about interfaces, etc., on Windows, but I'm
> sure others can....
>
> JK
>
>
>
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