Re: XeTeX and OpenType LM

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Since there are serious problems with XeTeX on non-TeXLive
> distributions anyway: why not mess it up properly this time?
>
>
> The attached file seems to work OK, although kpathsea complains a bit
> (but these are only warnings - no serious problems; perhaps other
> macros could or should be adapted - I didn't dig too much into the
> internals):
>
> kpathsea: Illegal fontname `[lmsans12-regular]': contains '['
> kpathsea: Illegal fontname `[lmsans10-bold]': contains '['
> kpathsea: Illegal fontname `[lmsans12-oblique]': contains '['
> kpathsea: Illegal fontname `[lmtypewriter12-regular]': contains '['
> kpathsea: Illegal fontname `[lmtypewriter10-oblique]': contains '['
>
> Can someone please take a look? I don't know how well this integrates
> with luaTeX. Perhaps the name can be changed from
> \definexetexfontsynonym to \defineotffontsynonym or something similar,
> so that the underlying code can then differ depending on whether it's
> luatex or XeTeX the one which has to access the otf fonts.
>
> If this or a modified version of it makes it into the core, I would
> suggest another (slightly radical) change - to redefine default
> encoding to "uc" instead of "ec" for XeTeX (and luatex) before loading
> the formats. It would be really great if the default XeTeX settings
> would simply work out-of-the-box, contrary to now, when the default
> ec-lmr is nearly useless.
hm, i'm still wondering why xetex needs the extra [] ; is this somewhere documented? is it something new? why not {} 

having an extra series of defs for xetex is a bad idea, so i'd rather fix that 'automatically'

Hans 


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