[XeTeX] Lucida New Math and XeTeX

Bruno Voisin bvoisin at mac.com
Wed May 16 14:57:33 CEST 2007


Le 16 mai 07 à 14:14, Will Robertson a écrit :

> On 16/05/2007, at 21:26 , Gour wrote:
>
>> However, in the past I had big problems finding fonts which would
>> include all Croatian chars (eg. šŠ đĐ čČ ćĆ žŽ lj nj)
>> belonging to
>> (old) latin2 encoding.
>>
>> Moreover, sometimes I have to typeset some texts using Sanskrit
>> diacritical marks and there only TeX accent-mechanism would help.
>
> My multilingual knowledge isn't too flash. I'd be interested in
> hearing the general state of OpenType fonts with respect to these
> sorts of things. Obviously, it's going to vary a lot... but a good
> unicode font should have the accents you need for Sanskrit
> diacritics, and XeTeX'll place them better than TeX will...

The Lucida fonts from TUG are not Unicode, they only cover 8-bit  
encodings (pure ascii plus a few accented characters), I'm not sure  
they include the characters you mention.

For these characters, I think you would better off using the Lucida  
fonts that are now included in OS X (or do they come from MS Office  
2004, I don't remember). The advantage of the Lucida fonts from TUG  
are the additional New Math fonts, covering more or less the same  
mathematical character set as the AMS fonts. But for plain text, I  
don't think they are needed.

Bruno Voisin



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