On 5/11/12, Joseph Wright <joseph.wri...@morningstar2.co.uk> wrote: > On 11/05/2012 17:36, Tobias Schoel wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have done a few tests with the problematic symbols in siunitx (namely >> micro, ohm, angstrom, celsius, degree/arcsecond/arcminute) and different >> math fonts. You'll find source and result attached. As I don't have >> access to commercial fonts (which includes MS Fonts), I could only test >> some of them. The results aren't overwhelming. >> >> Is it possible and acceptable to include a package option or >> sisetup-option which makes the suitable definitions? It shouldn't be >> default, even when loading fontspec in xetex, but easily accessible. >> >> Thanks >> >> bye >> >> Tobias > > As the siunitx documents state, there are simply too many combinations > of font packages to hope to cover all of them 'out of the box' or indeed > in the documentation, especially as XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX users may be > loading /any/ system font. Furthermore, the package code has to work > with pdfTeX, so it cannot contain UTF-8 characters outside of the ASCII > range. > > As such, I can only make general recommendations in the documentation on > what to do to print these symbols correctly when using UTF-8 engines.
I'm really no expert, but the siunitx package could include, e.g., ยต as ^^^^00b5. This would not make pdftex choke when appearing in the false branch of an engine-dependent conditional. Regards, Bruno -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex