[XeTeX] GFS Didot

Nikos Platis nplatis at gmail.com
Wed Jul 2 12:19:01 CEST 2008


Works fine for me as well. Is it possible that you have an older version 
of the font?
http://www.greekfontsociety.gr/pages/en_typefaces20th.html

Nikos

> Hi everyone,
>
> It seems that GFS Didot italic is broken. This example:
>
> \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
>
> \usepackage{fontspec}
>
> \def\G{αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρςστυφχψω\par}
>
> \def\L{abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz\par}
>
> \def\all#1{#1\textit{#1}\textbf{#1\textit{#1}}}
>
> \def\fs#1{\fontspec{#1}#1:\par\smallskip\all{\L}\smallskip\all{\G}\bigskip}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> \fs{Frutiger Linotype}
>
> \fs{GFS Didot}
>
> \fs{GFS Bodoni}
>
> \end{document}
>
>
> produces a strange result for GFS Didot italic, attached, it appears 
> that the correct metrics are used, but wrong glyphs are printed. Can 
> other people reproduce it? Would this be a bug in the font or in 
> XeTeX? The other fonts, including other GFS fonts do work as expected. 
> This is done using using XeTeX version 3.1415926-2.2-0.999.2, the most 
> recent MiKTeX update. There is no problem using an unmodified out of 
> the box TeX Live 2007 in OpenSolaris.
>
> Andrew
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