[XeTeX] A general suggetion for managing the font selection formixed-language document

Yin Dian yindian at gmail.com
Sat Sep 1 14:54:35 CEST 2007


Hi,

You can check out the svn trunk. I could open the archive using WinRAR on
Windows XP.

YIN Dian


On 9/1/07, John Was <john.was at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>  The Chinese package looks excellent.  My computer (Windows XP) won't
> recognize the .bz2 files on the website.  How do I get at the contents
> (presumably a collection of .TEX or .STY files)?
>
> Best
>
>
> John
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Yin Dian <yindian at gmail.com>
> *To:* Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms <xetex at tug.org>
> *Sent:* Saturday, September 01, 2007 11:00 AM
> *Subject:* JunkEmail: Re: [XeTeX] A general suggetion for managing the
> font selection formixed-language document
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I agree that it's a better idea not to implement this feature in fontspec
> but in other packages, where the character class scheme may be totally
> redefined discarding the effort of fontspec. In fact, the package
> "zhspacing" for Chinese document spacing adjustment is almost ready for use
> now. You can find out more info on the BBS of USTC and SMTH in Chinese. The
> project homepage is http://code.google.com/p/zhspacing/. HTH.
>
> Regards.
>
> YIN Dian
>
> On 9/1/07, Will Robertson < wspr81 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 01/09/2007, at 17:44 , Song Zhiwei wrote:
> >
> > > Many users is going to manage the font selection for mixed-language
> > > document. This can be done by adding a feature of "Unicode" for
> > > \fontsec like the feature of "Size".
> >
> > I'm happy to support the addition of such features to fontspec but I
> > wonder if a new package would be a better idea (there's no reason
> > this couldn't hook into the fontspec interface, though).
> >
> > There's additional stuff that falls into the category of this sort of
> > feature that doesn't make so much sense in fontspec -- for example,
> > tuning the spacing around punctuation. Perhaps the upcoming jspacing
> > (?) package will do this sort of thing.
> >
> > Sadly I don't have time to work on this new interface but I
> > definitely like the idea.
> >
> > Will
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