Re: XeTeX questions

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
> Hmmm ... you can use OpenType fonts in XeTeX in a plain-TeX-way like that:
> \font\a="[KalligraphiaLTStd]" \a
>   
hm, weird syntax
> But there's no high level interface for it yet. The relevant pieces
> are in font-ini.tex:
>
> %D For \XETEX\ we need to support a bit more:
> %D
> %D \starttyping
> %D \definedfont[{cmr10}  at 40pt] test
> %D \definedfont['cmss10' at 40pt] test
> %D \definedfont["cmtt10" at 40pt] test
> %D
> %D \definedfont[{cmr10}  at 40pt] test
> %D \definedfont['cmss10' at 40pt] test
> %D \definedfont["cmtt10" at 40pt] test
> %D
> %D \definedfont["Gentium" at 40pt] test
> %D \stoptyping
>
> But one would also need \definedfont["[KalligraphiaLTStd]" at 40pt] or
> a similar command (double brackets look ugly anyway) to pass the same
> font name to XeTeX. If some TeXacker knows how to fix the low level
> macros responsible for it ... ;)
>   
won't work ... context cannot handle nested [] without much trickery and 
i' really dislike that syntax

> I was silently hoping that once that Taco or Hans implement the same
> feature in luatex, one of them would also fix the corresponding macros
> for XeTeX. My knowledge doesn't suffice for it.
>   
why are the nested [] needed

(btw, later this year i may come up with an extension to the font 
definition macros more suitable for open type; in that case we can 
convert to xetex syntax behind the screens)
>   
>> 2. When generating the formats, texexec complained about "unknow
>> control sequence" because of lines 25 and 26 in syst-xtx.tex
>>
>> \setcclcuc 201C 201C 201C
>> \setcclcuc 201D 201D 201D
>>
>> I had to comment out these lines to generate the formats (this is
>> with a texlive2007 snapshot of last week and the latest ConTeXt). Is
>> this a known bug?
>>     
the enco-utf file is now shared between xetex and luatex in mkii mode; 
luatex in mkiv mode does things differently
>
> Change it to \setcclcucx or wait until Hans uploads a new version ;)
>   
done, but no upload yet

Hans

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