[XeTeX] a package for transition ryles based on unicode block (allowing amongst other things automatic font switching between languages)

Michiel Kamermans pomax at nihongoresources.com
Mon Oct 19 12:36:41 CEST 2009


Jonathan Kew wrote:
> I haven't examined your actual code, but if I'm understanding this, 
> there's no problem. You can specify character numbers in decimal just 
> as readily as hex. You can replace
>
>   \XeTeXintercharclass `\�� = \AncientGreekNumbersClass
>
> with either
>
>   \XeTeXintercharclass "10140 = \AncientGreekNumbersClass
>
> or
>
>   \XeTeXintercharclass 65856 = \AncientGreekNumbersClass
>
> and the effect is exactly the same; these are just alternate ways of 
> specifying numbers to TeX.
Aha! I did not know this. Yes, that certainly makes things a lot easier 
and I shall get rid of the individual glyph definitions forthwith!

- Mike


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