[XeTeX] Symbol fonts?

[Nicolas Vaughan]

Hi Fr. Michael,
Sorry, same result.

However, I tried the following; I converted with a font editor the TTF to
OTF, and it worked fine in XeTeX (I don't know if this implies some kind of
copyright infringement, though).

I wonder if this difficulty in handling TT symbol fonts is due to the XeTeX
engine, or if it is due to the TTF format.

Cheers!
Nicolas


On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Nicolas Vaughan <nivaca at gmail.com> wrote:

> *Hi Fr. Michael Nicolas,*
>
> I'm using a TTF from Monotype (but I also tried with many other symbol TTFs
> from ITC, with the same result; I believe there's something strange with the
> symbol-font encondings.)
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> My minimal example is:
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> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
>
> \usepackage{fontspec,xltxtra,xunicode}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> \section{Rococo Ornaments One MT}
> \fontspec[Scale=MatchLowercase]{Rococo Ornaments One MT}
> {\Huge
>   1234567890
>   ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWYXZ
>   abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwyxz
>   }
>
> \end{document}
>
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> Hope this serves!
> Cheers!
> Nicolas
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> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Nicolas Vaughan <nivaca at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Arthur and Fr. Michael,
>> I'm on windows Vista (and Ubuntu Linux, if needed). When I open the font
>> with FontLab (I'm just now downloading FontLab), it tells me the font is
>> encoded as "MS Windows Symbol". Its glyphs all have unicode names as, e.g.,
>> F088, F089, etc. But when I try to access them in XeTeX with \char"F088,
>> nothing happens.
>> Cheers!
>> Nicolas
>>
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>>
>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Nicolas Vaughan <nivaca at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, Jonathan,
>>> Thanks for your reply. I had no luck, though. I still get the little
>>> square. And the SIL ViewGlyph doesn't work with OpenType fonts.
>>>
>>> Nicolas
>>>
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>>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Nicolas Vaughan <nivaca at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I've been unsuccessfully trying to use symbol OpenType fonts in XeTeX. I
>>>> only get little squares as a result.
>>>> E.g.,
>>>>
>>>> \fontspec[Scale=MatchLowercase]{Rococo Ornaments One MT}
>>>> 1234567890
>>>> ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWYXZ
>>>> abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwyxz
>>>>
>>>> Is there any trick for loading this fonts for XeTeX?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers!
>>>> Nicolas Vaughan
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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