Am 26.09.2010 um 01:17 schrieb Peter Dyballa:
> Instead of the not included DejaVu font family you might like to mention GNU
> Free fonts or Linux Libertine/Biolinum O, which are included in TeX Live.
You have a point here, I'll switch to Linux Libertine.
> Some operating systems or application offer "input systems" or "input
> methods" which allow to enter non-standard characters.
>
> XeTeX also supports UTF-16 encodings. \XeTeXdefaultencoding{CharsetName} and
> \XeTeXinputencoding{CharsetName} can set many others.
IIRC anything but UTF-8 and UTF-16 is strongly discouraged.
> Me, I don't know of any font that switches typographic conventions based on
> the script and language selected, what usually happens is that a different
> set features is activated for the selected combination.
> GNU Emacs offers input methods. One of them, always available, is C-q <some
> number>, and the number can be octal, decimal, or hexadecimal.
You just have to memorize the Unicodecode:-)
> Don't forget to mention that XeTeX does not load any font files but relies on
> a (modern) system's "font service" to deliver them upon request!
The font loading is done by fontspec.
Axel
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