[XeTeX] Gentium, Tironian Et, and XeTeX

[Peter Baker]

Your problem is that Gentium does not include the Tironian nota. All you 
need to do is choose a font that does have it. Check the MUFI page for 
possibilities: http://www.mufi.info/

Also I'm pretty sure that some of the DejaVu fonts have it.

Peter


Chris Yocum wrote:
> Greetings Everyone,
>      I have recently switched from using pdflatex to xelatex as it
> provided some characters that I could not use in normal latex.  The
> one that I really wanted to be able to include in my documents was the
> "Tironian et" which appears often in my line of work.  I had taken
> some advice from the texhax mail list from years ago to use the number
> 7 in italic.  That got me through my thesis.  However, I found that
> when I attempted to use XeTeX with the Gentium font provided by SIL on
> XeTeX, it just left an empty space in the PDF where the symbol should
> be.  I tested the PDF in Evince, xPDF, and Acrobat 9 so I know it is
> not the viewer but something with XeTeX itself.  I have attached a
> minimal example that uses it so you can see the effect.  Any
> advice/comments would be gratefully received.
>
> Thank You,
> Chris Yocum
>