[XeTeX] pointing angle brackets

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 09.04.2008 um 15:11 schrieb Bruno Voisin:
> xunicode.sty includes provision for using these characters in text
> mode, but the corresponding lines are commented out owing apparently
> to the characters being absent from most fonts:
>
> %\DeclareUTFcharacter[\UTFencname]{x2329}{\textlangle}% few fonts
> %\DeclareUTFcharacter[\UTFencname]{x232A}{\textrangle}% few fonts


They are probably referencing entities from the TS1 encoding. Alas,  
when the font used can't provide their glyphs it's useless to use  
them by name. I could use them a few times in "normal" LaTeX  
documents with the textcomp package.

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   Pete

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