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On 05/12/2018, at 22:10, "BPJ" <<a href="mailto:bpj@melroch.se">bpj@melroch.se</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">@Zdenek, the point is that other characters inside `\textit` should be real italics. I at least have tried it using a macro around the "culprit" characters and I think it looks better than fake italics throughout, which looks really bad (shades
of low-budget publications from the early eighties! :-). Anyway I'm working on a solution in my head which I'll try when I get back to my desktop. I think I'll try to use a boolean which I set/unset at the start/end of my "`\mytextit` and a single macro for
the active characters which checks this boolean. I have no idea yet if it will work, but it seems the semantically cleanest way to do it to my mind.</div>
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<div>ons 5 dec. 2018 kl. 10:53 skrev Zdenek Wagner <<a href="mailto:zdenek.wagner@gmail.com">zdenek.wagner@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
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Hi,<br>
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I am afraid that I do not understand why to make only 4 FakeSlant<br>
characters instead of a FakeSlant font. Does it mean that other<br>
characters will remain upright inside \textit?<br>
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Anyway, making a few characters active for \textit is quite simple.<br>
Let's suppose that A and B should be active. You then define:<br>
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\def\mytextit{\begingroup \catcode`\A=13 \catcode`\B=13 \dotextit}<br>
\def\dotextit#1{\textit{#1}\endgroup}<br>
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You will then call \mytextit{Test of A and B}<br>
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st 5. 12. 2018 v 5:51 odesílatel Alan Munn <<a href="mailto:amunn@gmx.com" target="_blank">amunn@gmx.com</a>> napsal:<br>
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> Can you provide a bit more detail? Maybe a small example document?<br>
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> Alan<br>
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> Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:<br>
> > I have a somewhat unusual problem. In a document produced using<br>
> > XeLaTeX I need to use four Unicode letters with scarce font support in<br>
> > italicized words and passages but the font which I have to use<br>
> > supports these characters only in roman. The obvious solution is to<br>
> > use the FakeSlant feature of fontspec but I don’t want to enclose<br>
> > these characters in a command argument, in the hope that a future<br>
> > version of the document can use an italic font which supports these<br>
> > characters, but neither do I (perhaps needless to say) want to use<br>
> > fake italics except for these four characters. In other words I would<br>
> > like to perform some kind of “keyhole surgery” in the preamble and use<br>
> > these characters normally in the body of the document, which I guess<br>
> > means having to make them active and somehow detect when they are<br>
> > inside the argument of `\textit`. (Note: it is appropriate to use<br>
> > `\textit` rather than `\emph` here because the purpose of the<br>
> > italicization is to mark text as being in an object language in a<br>
> > linguistic text.) Is that at all possible? I guess I could wrap<br>
> > `\textit` in a macro which locally redefines the active characters,<br>
> > but I’m not sure how to do that, nor how to access the glyphs<br>
> > corresponding to the characters once the characters are active. I am a<br>
> > user who isn’t afraid of using and making the most of various packages<br>
> > or of writing an occasional custom command to wrap up some repeatedly<br>
> > needed operation, but I am no expert. I am aware of all the arguments<br>
> > against fake italics — that is why I want to limit the damage as much<br>
> > as possible! — but I have no choice here. Waiting for the/an<br>
> > appropriate font to include italic versions of these characters is not<br>
> > an option at the moment.<br>
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> > /Benct<br>
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