[XeTeX] Symbol fonts?

[Adam Twardoch]

Patrick Carr wrote:
> Aha! I have two Minion Pros, the regular set that came with Adobe CS3
> and Minion Pro Opticals. (The regular ones were all deactivated except
> the Bold.) For reasons beyond my ken, they have that glyph in
> different slots: 515 in the regular set and 1118 in the opticals.
> Since they both have the same Postscript name, the apple font system
> must just be picking one.

The small Minion Pro set that came with CS3 must be version 2.x, which
was extended and updated by Adobe by adding extra glyphs and fixing some
problems. The Minion Pro Opticals set is version 1.x which is older --
but Adobe have not yet updated the entire Opticals family to version 2.x
to my knowledge, just the "core set".

I recommend that you use:

\XeTeXglyph\XeTeXglyphindex "bullet.021"

(\XeTeXglyphindex takes a glyph name as the argument and returns the
glyph index, \XeTeXglyph takes a glyph index as the argument and returns
the glyph).

Glyph indices are not at all portable, not even across font versions.
Glyphnames are slightly more portable, but ideally, you should be
accessing this glyph through the bullet character and the 21st variant
within the "ornm" OpenType Layout feature. But I don't know how to
express it in XeTeX :)

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