[XeTeX] XeTeX/XeLaTeX and bi-color fonts

Fr. Michael Gilmary FrMichaelGilmary at MaroniteMonks.org
Sat Oct 17 23:34:58 CEST 2009


Peter Baker wrote:

> I've been looking at bi-color fonts, which it seems usually come as 
> two fonts to be superimposed exactly upon one another: one may be a 
> normal or hollow font, the other has color fills. I'm wondering what 
> the best way would be to use such fonts in XeTeX. Does anyone have any 
> experience/code they are willing to share?


Hi Peter:

I'm not sure if it will fit the bill, but you might try the contour 
package ==>>  texdoc contour

It can work with xelatex, but there are *many* warnings issued. I 
haven't worked with it at all myself, so maybe if you use a different 
driver than xdvipdfmx?

HTH.

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