[XeTeX] XeTeX Digest, Vol 48, Issue 13

[Barry MacKichan]

I'd like to express my support for this idea.
Would it be worth considering an enhancement to fontspec so that we 
could write, e.g.,
\setmainfont[UprightFont={Hebrew={Adobe Hebrew},CJK={NSimSun}}]{Adobe 
Garamond Pro]
to choose 'Adobe Garamond Pro' as the main font, except in the Hebrew 
unicode area, in which case use 'Adobe Hebrew', and the CJK area, in 
which case use 'NSimSun'?

I realize this is a significant amount of work, but it would free 
authors of multilingual works to choose the best available fonts for 
each language. The syntax would probably be different from my example, 
which I made up without much thought.

--Barry MacKichan
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> Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 03:52:49 +1030
> From: Will Robertson <wspr81 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [XeTeX] default char classes
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> Hello,
>
> It occurs to me that it would be good to define default char classes  
> to most of the unicode blocks. Does this seem like a sensible idea? If  
> so, should I look into it or does someone else want to do it? My time  
> is very limited, so it's only a thought at this stage.
>
> Will
>