Re: [XeTeX] Oldstyle figures in seperate file

2011-05-10 Thread Wolfgang Keller
Hello, Probably I mis-explained my objective... > I'd use another font instance for the small caps and the old-style > figures The point is that I already _have_ the oldstyle figures in another font file. And I _don't_ want _another_ font instance just for oldstyle numbers. > and use this fon

Re: [XeTeX] Oldstyle figures in seperate file

2011-05-06 Thread Andy Lin
I think this topic has been discussed before, and at the time, there was a suggestion of using the interchartoks mechanism, and so the ucharclasses package might work for you. BUT, and I might be remembering wrong, I think it was thought to be a bad idea to do this with numbers. But if you're feel

Re: [XeTeX] Oldstyle figures in seperate file

2011-05-06 Thread Juan Acevedo
Wolfgang, Have a look at the fontspec documentation where it is explained how to load different features from different fonts. Best, J -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex

Re: [XeTeX] Oldstyle figures in seperate file

2011-05-05 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 05.05.2011 um 21:22 schrieb William Adams: Make a virtual font. This would work with pdfTeX but not with XeTeX, which does not understand this concept of 7-bit or 8-bit fonts with real crazy encodings. I'd use another font instance for the small caps and the old-style figures and

Re: [XeTeX] Oldstyle figures in seperate file

2011-05-05 Thread William Adams
On May 5, 2011, at 3:16 PM, Wolfgang Keller wrote: > if the oldstyle figures are provided (together with the small caps) in > a seperate font file (this is a truetype font), how can I tell XeTeX to > use these for all (roman) numbers? > > Or do I have to format all my numbers explicitly as small

[XeTeX] Oldstyle figures in seperate file

2011-05-05 Thread Wolfgang Keller
Hello, if the oldstyle figures are provided (together with the small caps) in a seperate font file (this is a truetype font), how can I tell XeTeX to use these for all (roman) numbers? Or do I have to format all my numbers explicitly as small caps to get the oldstyle figures? TIA, Sincerely,