Adam,
On 12/2/2010 4:20 PM, Adam McCollum wrote:
Dear list members,
I like the Hoefler Text font very much, but I see that it apparently
doesn't have glyphs for a number of letters with diacritics, which I
sometimes need for transliteration; please see the example text below.
I've tried both unicode entry and the TeX way for entering these. Is
there any way at all to "fake" these glyphs or otherwise supply them?
My thought would be to simply use a different font for those characters,
by making use of the interchartok functionality of XeTeX. I do this for
Chinese transliteration when I'm using Palatino Linotype as base font.
It has virtually no extended Latin characters, so I rely on FreeSerif
for the additional characters (and Caslon Pro for quotation, because
Palatino's quotation symbols are dreadfully ugly).
The snippet of preamble relevant to this:
\XeTeXinterchartokenstate = 1
% set up the fonts
\newfontfamily{\mainlatinfont}{Palatino Linotype}
\newfontfamily{\extlatinfont}{FreeSerif}
\newfontfamily{\quotefont}{Adobe Caslon Pro}
% character classes (xetex has 5 predefined classes: latin=0,
cjk=1,2,3, boundary=255)
\newcommand{\extlatinclass}{\newcharclass}
\newcommand{\quoteclass}{\newcharclass}
% extended latin characters not found in Palatino
\XeTeXcharclass `\ǒ \extlatinclass
...
% quotation looks dreadful in Palatino
\XeTeXcharclass `\’ \quoteclass
\XeTeXcharclass `\‚ \quoteclass
\XeTeXcharclass `\“ \quoteclass
\XeTeXcharclass `\” \quoteclass
% transition to latin (including boundary)
\XeTeXinterchartoks \extlatinclass 0 = {\mainlatinfont}
\XeTeXinterchartoks \quoteclass 0 = {\mainlatinfont}
\XeTeXinterchartoks \quoteclass 255 = {\mainlatinfont}
% transitions to extended latin
\XeTeXinterchartoks 0 \extlatinclass = {\extlatinfont}
\XeTeXinterchartoks \quoteclass \extlatinclass = {\extlatinfont}
% transitions to quotation
\XeTeXinterchartoks 0 \quoteclass = {\quotefont}
\XeTeXinterchartoks \extlatinclass \quoteclass = {\quotefont}
- Mike "Pomax" Kamermans
nihongoresources.com
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