[XeTeX] can't access superscript glyphs outside Latin-1?

Eric Abrahamsen eric at ericabrahamsen.net
Tue Apr 2 18:28:39 CEST 2013


Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org>
writes:

> On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 12:05:49AM +0800, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>>
>> If the font has labeled its sups incorrectly, is it possible to edit the
>> font to fix it? Or any other solutions...
>
> You can do virtually any thing by editing the font in a font editor :)
> but if you mean within XeTeX, then the answer is no. If the glyphs you
> want to use have Unicode characters, you may use a font mapping, but
> that is a bad idea because it will break text extraction from PDF files
> (copying, searching etc.)

Yup, I meant edit the font -- I'd like to fix this properly! But I
opened Janson in Fontforge and besides the superscript 1 2 and 3 (in the
early section of the tables), there are no glyphs at all in the U207X
range and neighborhood, where the subs and supers live. So I guess
that's the source of my problem! Though they told me there was a full
range of digits...

Disappointing! But thanks again for the pointers.

E



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