[XeTeX] Symbol fonts?

[Nicolas Vaughan]

Hi Pat,
There seems to be a problem in the way the glyphs are encoded in this symbol
TTF. When I open it with a font editor, it tells me that, say, for a
flower-like glyph, its unicode value is F037.
But when I try to access it through XeTeX's \char"F037 I get the following
error:

Package fontspec Info: Defining font family for 'Rococo Ornaments Two MT'
with
options [Scale=MatchLowercase] on input line 5.
Package fontspec Info: Rococo Ornaments Two MT scale = 0.87437 on input line
5.

Package fontspec Info: Could not resolve font Rococo Ornaments Two MT/B (it
mig
ht not exist) on input line 5.

Cheers!

Nicolas


On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Nicolas Vaughan <nivaca at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.)
>>
>> My minimal example is:
>>
>> \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}
>>
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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