[XeTeX] XeTeX Digest, Vol 48, Issue 13

[Sven Siegmund]

Hi Barry,

have you considered the option of the fontspec package to define
shortcuts for selecting fonts? You take Adobe Garamond Pro as the main
font:

   \setmainfont{Adobe Garamond Pro}

and if you want Adobe hebrew for short runs of Hebrew text, you can
define a font selection command, e.g.  \heb:

   \newfontfamily{\heb}[Script=Hebrew]{Adobe Hebrew}


It's just that you have to select the font manually every time the
Script changes. I can imagine, if you do this 5 time on a page, you
eventually want XeTeX or fontspec to be more intelligent and recognize
the script used just by the code values of Characters used. Yes, that
would be great. I jsut can't judge how much effort it would take to
enable that.

S.

2008/3/9, Barry MacKichan <barry at mackichan.com>:
> I'd like to express my support for this idea.
>  Would it be worth considering an enhancement to fontspec so that we
>  could write, e.g.,
>  \setmainfont[UprightFont={Hebrew={Adobe Hebrew},CJK={NSimSun}}]{Adobe
>  Garamond Pro]
>  to choose 'Adobe Garamond Pro' as the main font, except in the Hebrew
>  unicode area, in which case use 'Adobe Hebrew', and the CJK area, in
>  which case use 'NSimSun'?
>
>  I realize this is a significant amount of work, but it would free
>  authors of multilingual works to choose the best available fonts for
>  each language. The syntax would probably be different from my example,
>  which I made up without much thought.
>
>  --Barry MacKichan
>  > Message: 7
>  > Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 03:52:49 +1030
>  > From: Will Robertson <wspr81 at gmail.com>
>  > Subject: [XeTeX] default char classes
>  > To: Mailing list <xetex at tug.org>
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>  >
>  > Hello,
>  >
>  > It occurs to me that it would be good to define default char classes
>  > to most of the unicode blocks. Does this seem like a sensible idea? If
>  > so, should I look into it or does someone else want to do it? My time
>  > is very limited, so it's only a thought at this stage.
>  >
>  > Will
>  >
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