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I think it's not about the variation selector,</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"> but about the variant form of a character.</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0">% XeTeX</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0">\def\VSI{\char"FE00\char"FE00}</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0">\font\1="[NotoSansManichaean-Regular.ttf]" at 36pt</div>
<div class="ContentPasted0">\font\2="[NotoSansManichaean-Regular.ttf]:color=FF0000" at 36pt</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0">\def\theGlyph#1{%</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0"> \leavevmode</div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"> \hbox to15mm{\tt #1\hss}%</div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"> \hbox to15mm{\1\hss\char"#1\hss}\ %</div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"> \hbox to30mm{\tt #1 plus VS1\hss}% </div>
<div class="ContentPasted0"> \hbox to15mm{\2\hss\char"#1\VSI\hss}\bigskip</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0">\2\XeTeXglyph\XeTeXcharglyph"FE00\bigskip</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0">\theGlyph{10AC5}</div>
<div class="ContentPasted0">\theGlyph{10AC6}</div>
<div class="ContentPasted0">\theGlyph{10AD6}</div>
<div class="ContentPasted0">\theGlyph{10AD7}</div>
<div class="ContentPasted0">\theGlyph{10AE1}</div>
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Guido Herzog<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>Von:</b> XeTeX <xetex-bounces+guido_herzog=hotmail.com@tug.org> im Auftrag von Janusz S. Bień <jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl><br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" class="elementToProof"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>Gesendet:</b> Sonntag, 16. Oktober 2022 16:47<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>An:</b> XeTeX discussion <xetex@tug.org><br>
<b>Betreff:</b> [XeTeX] solved partially (was: How to print a variation selectors?)</font>
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<div class="PlainText">On Sun, Oct 16 2022 at 17:56 +02, Janusz S. Bień wrote:<br>
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Frank Mittelbach was kind enough to provide me with the relevant information:<br>
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On Sun, Oct 16 2022 at 9:21 -07, Frank Mittelbach wrote:<br>
> I checked. In Unicode this slot is default-ignorable and both XeTeX<br>
> and LuaTeX do not print glyphs with that attribute (probably because<br>
> the aren't not meant for printing).<br>
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> In luaTeX (but not in XeTeX I think) you can change this behavior.<br>
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So the questions left are:<br>
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Is it really impossible to do it in XeTeX?<br>
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What are other, more commonly used, fonts with VS1 glyphs?<br>
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Best regards<br>
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Janusz<br>
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Janusz S. Bien<br>
emeryt (emeritus)<br>
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