[XeTeX] Defining multiple fonts / font search directory

[Jonathan Kew]

On 4 Sep 2007, at 3:55 pm, Will Robertson wrote:

> 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.

Well, not exactly this feature, but there is a feature (character  
classes and intercharacter token insertion) that can be configured to  
achieve similar goals, at least in some cases.

JK