[XeTeX] Minion Pro and Japanese text

[Cyril Niklaus]

On 4 mai 08, at 07:26, Flavio Costa wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm typesetting an UTF-8 text with Adobe Minion Pro font (the one  
> that comes with Acrobat Reader) and I have some Japanese kana/kanji  
> on it. Instead of getting correct Japanese text, the glyphs are  
> replaced by crossed rectangles.
That's because Minion Pro does not have Japanese glyphs. You need to  
either use only a Japanese font like you did with IPAGothic and be  
content with the roman glyphs provided or indicate the font changes.
Do it by declaring a \newfontfamily, as in here:

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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec,xunicode}
\setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text,Numbers=OldStyle]{Minion Pro}
\newfontfamily{\J}[Scale=MatchLowercase]{Hiragino Mincho Pro}
\begin{document}

English, français, português, αβγε, {\J にほんご 日本語}.

\end{document}
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[Scale=0.85] or somesuch number also works, as given in the XeLaTeX  
template that comes with TeXShop.

HTH

Cyril