[XeTeX] [OS X TeX] Accented characters in Xe(La)TeX

[Ross Moore]

Hi Clea, Peter,

On 31/05/2010, at 3:49 PM, Ross Moore wrote:

> As in the attached image?
> I get it too, with Regular only. Bold and Italic seem OK.

>> and I get weirdness only for Venturis regular without a location...
>
> Would you show exactly the command which worked, please?

>>> Fontspec also gives you the option to tell XeTeX the particular  
>>> font file to be used. Try that for ADF Venturis!

How is this done?
When I put in a full path, as in

  \newfontfamily\venturisregularfont{/Users/rossmoor/Library/Fonts/ 
arkandis/venturis/VenturisADF-Regular.otf}

then there are NFSS errors, perhaps leading to a recursion.


But there is another issue.
>
> I can show you how to replace the missing characters with accents
> built as with older LaTeX styles, but while still using proper
> accented characters for those which *are* in the font.

Look at the circumflex accents over the Y and W in the attached image.

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These LaTeX-composed accented characters use  U+002C6
It works fine over the lowercase w and y, but is different
to the shape of the circumflex over A,E,I,O,U .

It seems that Hoefler Text has a couple of variant glyphs.
But how to access them in XeTeX?


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> In the image, you'll see that \^W \^Y etc. use this.
> There is a bit of a glitch in that the accents are placed a tiny
> bit higher than those over the pre-built characters.
> So there needs to be an extra font-specific vertical adjustment.

Being able to access the variant probably fixes this.


Any help on this welcome,

	Ross

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