[XeTeX] Character Variants
Fr. Michael Gilmary, mma
frmichaelgilmary at maronitemonks.org
Sun Mar 27 19:09:16 CEST 2011
On Mar 27 AD 2011, at 12:49 PM, Bob Beckett wrote:
> Bob Beckett <sealbeam01 at ...> writes:
>
>
>>
>> Can anyone help me get XeTeX to create a character variant?
>>
>> I am using Kozuka Mincho Pr6N, which includes a variant of U+8FBB.
>> This
>> variant is obtained by combining 8FBB with the Ideographic Variation
> Sequence
>> E0100. (I hope I'm phrasing this correctly.)
>>
>> If I use the editor BabelPad, I can get the variant by typing:
>>
>> 8FBB(Alt-x)E0100(Alt-x)
>>
>> But I don't know how to accomplish this in XeTeX. The fontspec
>> manual says
>> that it supports character variants, but gives no examples. Not
>> being a
>> computer person, I need a real example.
>>
> Thanks for all the suggestions. I had high hopes that one of them
> would work.
> Alas, ...
>
> Here are the results.
>
> Andy's suggestion:
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \begin{document}
> \fontspec{Kozuka Mincho Pr6N}辻
> \addfontfeature{RawFeature=+expt}辻
> \end{document}
>
>
> Result: This didn't work. It produced only the base character, not
> the
> variant. I also tried +aalt and +salt. No go.
>
>
> David's suggestion:
>
> \char"8FBB\char"E0100
>
> Result: Didn't work. It produced the base character, followed by a
> box with an
> X in it.
>
>
> I also copied the variant into the source, but that failed also.
>
> Incidentally, Kozuka Mincho is freely available for Adobe Reader.
Hi Bob:
Is your "character variant" actually a combined character ... meaning
a combination of U+8FBB and something else?
Attached is the screen image from the character palette when I look
for E0100. I can find the glyph at 8FBB, but I know nothing about
CJK ....
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