[XeTeX] Defining multiple fonts / font search directory

[Will Robertson]

On 04/09/2007, at 3:49 , Gerrit Sangel wrote:

> This way, the system would first choose a glyph from font1 and if  
> it doesn't
> find one in font1, it would look in font2. I think, this would  
> maybe nice for
> Chinese if one uses characters from the Han blocks in Plane 0 and  
> Plane 2,
> which may not fit into one font (don't know if something like this  
> exists).
> This would also be good if one has to input other scripts more  
> often and does
> not want to type in a command everytime.

This will be a feature in the next released version of XeTeX.

> \useromanfont{font1.ttf}

This is possible with possibly bleeding-edge versions of XeTeX and  
fontspec with the command

\fontspec[ExternalLocation]{font1.ttf}

or

\fontspec[ExternalLocation=/usr/fonts/]{font1.ttf}

to specify the path if the font's not in the working directory.

Cheers,
Will
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