[XeTeX] Change font metric?

[John Was]

Hello



If it's just the Minion Pro apostrophes and closing quotes that are causing 
you problems, try the following at the start of your file:



\catcode"2019=\active

\def’{\leavevmode \kern 1sp \hbox{'}}

\catcode"201D=\active

\def”{\leavevmode \kern 1sp \hbox{''}}



If you have ':mapping=tex-text' when you call the font, thus:



\font \minionten = "MinionPro-Regular:+onum:mapping=tex-text" at 10pt



you should then find that ’ and ” in your input file will be acceptably 
spaced in the PDF generated by XeTeX.



(If you have trouble keying ’ and ”, you can use ' and '' and 
search-and-replace them when you have finished composing your file.)



I find that there is still a collision when you have lower-case f followed 
by apostrophe:  I get round that by having an automated search-and-replace 
on files using Minion Pro to insert a \kern 0.2em after the f - not very 
elegant but at least it gets the job done.  (As I've said in some other 
threads, one would dearly like a custom-kern option that could be invoked 
when calling a font - that would allow users to draw up a ker table 
containing their own manual adjustments of unacceptably spaced pairs without 
delving into the font itself.)



 Hope this helps





John







----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thierry" <rhomunu-list at yahoo.fr>
To: <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 9:54 PM
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Change font metric?


> OK, I understand that it is not possible!
> To answer to some of you, here are some details:
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> - the fonts with the problem are (so far) Minion Pro and Adobe Jenson Pro. 
> I really appreciate them, so that I would like to use them.
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> - xetex (and pdflatex, and latex) changes U+0027 in the source to U+2019 
> in the pdf output (copy/paste the text from the pdf output to see it in 
> action). This is a clever change, because this is the right apostrophe to 
> use. So, no need to use U+2019 in the input. Moreover, U+0027 is easy to 
> access on the keyboard, not U+2019.
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> Thanks for all the comments and advices
> Thierry
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