Hi Marc,
I'm trying to use an opentype "Adobe Garamond Premier Pro"
and it works mostly fine, except that there are some problems:
o I'd like to know how to access certain glyphs in the font files. For
example, the euro symbol, the long es, and ornamental symbols.
When switching from LaTeX to XeLaTeX, the first thing to realise is that
in XeLaTeX, you write your text in unicode, relying on the unicode way
of representing characters and character sequences. As such, the best
choice is to not "access glyphs" but to just put them directly in your
document: just use €, ſ, etc.
If you absolutely must access them through artificial means, you can use
\char:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Code2000}
\begin{document}
% "latin small letter long S"
\char"017F
\end{document}
but you shouldn't have to resort to this.
o I've noticed that certain diacritics don't work such as tie-after accent
(\t{oo}) and bar-under accent (\b{o}). I'd appreciate it if somebody could
provide some pointers which explain how to define proper commands for
individual glyphs and how to fix the diacritics.
Diacritics are handled by the unicode-ness, too. You just type the text
that you want, relying on the unicode sequencing in your text editor to
get things right, and then you run xelatex with your file. You should
emphatically NOT use any of the LaTeX commands for adding diacritics.
As a related issue (I don't know what's in the font files), I'd appreciate it
if somebody could recommend a nice unix tool that allows me to view the font
tables? (I've googled
around a bit but I failed to find anything nice.)
Install Fontforge (should be in every major *nix's package list), use it
to open the desired font, and proceed to examine the hell out of it =)
- Mike "Pomax" Kamermans
nihongoresources.com
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