[XeTeX] XeTeX Digest, Vol 105, Issue 32

[Sasi Kumar]

Thanks to everyone for the quick response in spite of the Christmas season.
I have not tried any of the solutions suggested, but feel certain that one
of them or all of them will work.

Thanks and regards,
Sasi


On 26 December 2012 16:30, <xetex-request at tug.org> wrote:

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>    1. Re: Font change (Zdenek Wagner)
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> 2012/12/25 Theodore M Rolle, Jr. <stercor at gmail.com>:
> > Um...like this?
> >
> > \documentclass{article}
> > \usepackage{fontspec}
> > \begin{document}
> > \setmainfont{Linux Biolinum}
> > This is Linux Biolinum.\\
> > \setmainfont{Linux Biolinum Keyboard}
> > This is Linux Biolinum Keyboard.
> > \end{document}
> >
> > I just tried it with a minimal example.  It worked.
> >
> Of course it works, but there are better ways, see below.
>
> > On 12/24/2012 10:11 PM, Sasi Kumar wrote:
> >> Dear friends,
> >>
> >> As a relatively new user of XeTeX, I have a number of doubts. But right
> >> now, let me ask you two of them. I would be thankful if someone could
> point
> >> out a good tutorial on xelatex.
> >>
> >> My doubts are:
> >> 1. How can I change the font inside a document? For instance, let me
> say I
> >> have a document such as this:
> >>
> >>     The fox and the dog
> >> The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped
> >> over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
> >>
> \setmainfont{FreeSerif}
>
> {\fontspec{FreeSans}  The fox and the dog} ...
>
> Another way: you can also define \setsansfont{FreeSans} and then
> \textsf{The fox and the dog} should work. It is worth to read the
> fontspec documentation. The manual is quite long because the package
> is very powerful.
>
> >> I want "The fox and the dog" in the font, let us say, "FreeSans" and the
> >> rest of the text in the font "FreeSerif". How do I do that?
> >>
> >> 2. I am creating a document in two languages, let us say, English and
> >> Malayalam, with both languages appearing intermixed. Now, how do I set
> the
> >> fonts for each language? I have a font for Malayalam, but the English
> text
> >> does not appear very beautiful in that font, so I would like the English
> >> text to appear in some other font.
> >>
> The best way would be to translate all the captions into Malayalam and
> send them to Arthur Reutenauer to include them to the polyglossia
> package. You can them define separate fonts for English and Malayalam.
> The fonts will be changed automatically when the language is changed.
> If you have basically an English text with a few Malayalam words, you
> can take advantage of the ucharclasses package. You will then use:
>
> \usepackage[Malayalam]{ucharclasses}
> \setTransitionTo{Malayalam}{\fontspec[Script=Malayalam]{MalayalamFont}}
>
> Now the font will be changed automatically whenever a character from
> the Malayalam block is encountered.
>
> >> Thanking for any help that may be forthcoming and wishing everyone a
> Merry
> >> Christmas and a Very Happy 2013 and beyond.
> >>
> I wish the sam to all of you, my greeting card is on my web page
> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz/ and you can see the archive of the cards
> from previous years.
>
> >> Regards,
> >> Sasi
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Dear friends,
> >>
> >> As a relatively new user of XeTeX, I have a number of doubts. But right
> >> now, let me ask you two of them. I would be thankful if someone could
> >> point out a good tutorial on xelatex.
> >>
> >> My doubts are:
> >> 1. How can I change the font inside a document? For instance, let me say
> >> I have a document such as this:
> >>
> >>     The fox and the dog
> >> The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped
> >> over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
> >>
> >> I want "The fox and the dog" in the font, let us say, "FreeSans" and the
> >> rest of the text in the font "FreeSerif". How do I do that?
> >>
> >> 2. I am creating a document in two languages, let us say, English and
> >> Malayalam, with both languages appearing intermixed. Now, how do I set
> >> the fonts for each language? I have a font for Malayalam, but the
> >> English text does not appear very beautiful in that font, so I would
> >> like the English text to appear in some other font.
> >>
> >> Thanking for any help that may be forthcoming and wishing everyone a
> >> Merry Christmas and a Very Happy 2013 and beyond.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Sasi
> >>
> >> --
> >> V. Sasi Kumar
> >> Free Software Foundation of India
> >> Please see: http://swatantryam.blogspot.com/
> >>
> >>
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V. Sasi Kumar
Free Software Foundation of India
Please see: http://swatantryam.blogspot.com/
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