Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation?

2021-08-23 Thread Doug McKenna
George - Thanks! - Doug McK. From: "George N. White III" To: "xetex" Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2021 8:14:58 AM Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation? On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 at 22:46, Doug McKenna < [ mailto:d...@ma

Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation?

2021-08-23 Thread Philip Taylor
Ulrike Fischer wrote: And sorry: the general case is that people have windows 10 (if they have windows) and not windows 7. If by "the general case", you mean "the majority", then statistically you are of course correct : Desktop Windows Version Market Share Worldwide - July 2021 Win10

Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation?

2021-08-23 Thread Philip Taylor
George N. White III wrote: I have access to a couple Windows Systems (10 Enterprise and 10 Pro) with a full install of TeX Live 2021 with current updates.  Both have "\bin\win32\albatross.exe" and the default Windows TL2021 fontconfig setup.   Both work as advertised (but default Windows

Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation?

2021-08-23 Thread George N. White III
On Sat, 21 Aug 2021 at 11:20, Philip Taylor (HI) < p.tay...@hellenic-institute.uk> wrote: > Ulrike Fischer wrote: > > > With a current texlive you can use albatross to find out which fonts > on your system support this > >albatross -d 0xFFFD > > > I appreciate that this answer may have been

Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation?

2021-08-22 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 at 22:46, Doug McKenna wrote: > Using XeTeX, I want to typeset a LaTeX document into a PDF file. The > LaTeX source code in UTF-8 > expressly includes the Unicode Replacement character (� = U+FFFD) (a black > diamond with a > question mark in it). > > I want to typeset it in

Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation?

2021-08-22 Thread Ken Moffat via XeTeX
On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 04:23:45PM -0600, Doug McKenna wrote: > Ulrike - > > Excellent. Thank you! > > Using \setmainfont{DejaVuSerif.ttf} works on my non-Linux machine, and it is > not listed as "installed" in my Mac's FontBook, which means it's being used > solely within the TeXosystem. >

Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation?

2021-08-22 Thread BPJ
-- Original Message - > From: "news3" > To: "xetex" > Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2021 10:39:25 AM > Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX > installation? > > Am Sat, 21 Aug 2021 09:25:14 -0600 (MDT) schrieb Doug McKenna: &

Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation?

2021-08-21 Thread Doug McKenna
ixed-width OpenType/TrueType font distributed with TeXLive that would work? Doug McKenna Mathemaesthetics, Inc. - Original Message - From: "news3" To: "xetex" Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2021 10:39:25 AM Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every T

Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation?

2021-08-21 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Sat, 21 Aug 2021 09:25:14 -0600 (MDT) schrieb Doug McKenna: > Thanks all for your interesting responses. > > Unfortunately, my possibly poorly worded question remains unanswered. Let me > try again. > > Consider the short example just used: > > \documentclass{article} >

Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation?

2021-08-21 Thread Doug McKenna
Thanks all for your interesting responses. Unfortunately, my possibly poorly worded question remains unanswered. Let me try again. Consider the short example just used: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont{DejaVu Serif} \begin{document} fffd \end{document}

Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation?

2021-08-21 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Sat, 21 Aug 2021 15:20:22 +0100 schrieb Philip Taylor (HI): > I appreciate that this answer may have been targetted solely at Doug > McKenna, but in the general case it does not work.  Here, using TeX Live > 2021 under Windows 7 Ultimate, the command "albatross" is unknown — > >> Microsoft

Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation?

2021-08-21 Thread Janusz S . Bień
On Sat, Aug 21 2021 at 15:20 +01, Philip Taylor (HI) wrote: > Ulrike Fischer wrote: > > With a current texlive you can use albatross to find out which fonts > on your system support this > >albatross -d 0xFFFD > > I appreciate that this answer may have been targetted solely at Doug McKenna,

Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation?

2021-08-21 Thread Philip Taylor (HI)
Ulrike Fischer wrote: With a current texlive you can use albatross to find out which fonts on your system support this albatross -d 0xFFFD I appreciate that this answer may have been targetted solely at Doug McKenna, but in the general case it does not work.  Here, using TeX Live 2021

Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation?

2021-08-21 Thread David Carlisle
On Sat, 21 Aug 2021, 13:46 Janusz S. Bień, wrote: > On Sat, Aug 21 2021 at 10:48 +02, Ulrike Fischer wrote: > > Am Fri, 20 Aug 2021 19:45:37 -0600 (MDT) schrieb Doug McKenna: > > > >> Using XeTeX, I want to typeset a LaTeX document into a PDF file. The > LaTeX source code in UTF-8 expressly

Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation?

2021-08-21 Thread Janusz S . Bień
On Sat, Aug 21 2021 at 10:48 +02, Ulrike Fischer wrote: > Am Fri, 20 Aug 2021 19:45:37 -0600 (MDT) schrieb Doug McKenna: > >> Using XeTeX, I want to typeset a LaTeX document into a PDF file. The LaTeX >> source code in UTF-8 expressly includes the Unicode Replacement character (� >> = U+FFFD) >

Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation?

2021-08-21 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Fri, 20 Aug 2021 19:45:37 -0600 (MDT) schrieb Doug McKenna: > Using XeTeX, I want to typeset a LaTeX document into a PDF file. The LaTeX > source code in UTF-8 expressly includes the Unicode Replacement character (� > = U+FFFD) > So ... What fixed-width and variable-width OpenType (or

Re: [XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation?

2021-08-20 Thread Janusz S . Bień
On Fri, Aug 20 2021 at 19:45 -06, Doug McKenna wrote: [...] > So ... What fixed-width and variable-width OpenType (or other) fonts, > if any, are always distributed with TeX or TeXLive or whatever that > one can rely upon to be available for placing this particular glyph in > a final PDF file?

[XeTeX] Guaranteed Unicode replacement glyph in every TeX installation?

2021-08-20 Thread Doug McKenna
Using XeTeX, I want to typeset a LaTeX document into a PDF file. The LaTeX source code in UTF-8 expressly includes the Unicode Replacement character (� = U+FFFD) (a black diamond with a question mark in it). I want to typeset it in this single document using a monospaced font in one place,