[XeTeX] Problems with thickness of \frac rule and width of accents (\hat) with XeLaTeX

[Khaled Hosny]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:54:00PM +0200, Ulrik Vieth wrote:
> On 08/17/2010 04:32 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> >
> >Likely XeTeX does not check this parameter at all and resorts to some
> >hard coded default rule thickness.
> 
> No, that cannot be the reason. I know for sure that XeTeX does load
> some (but not all) of the OpenType font parameters and maps them to
> TeX fontdimen parameters. I have seen that myself in the web2c
> sources:
> 
> http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/web2c/xetexdir/XeTeXOTMath.cpp?view=markup
> 
> However, I have now realized that the problem is caused by of a
> mismatch between the unicode-math LaTeX package and the XeTeX
> engine:
> 
> When LaTeX starts out, it has LM/CM fonts preloaded in families 0-3.
> When unicode-math loads another OpenType math font with
> \setmathfont, it loads the font into a new family, e.g. family 4.

I thought about that possibility, but I don't have the expertise to
check it my self, thanks.

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer