[XeTeX] Symbol fonts?

[Jonathan Kew]

On 17 Feb 2009, at 18:58, Nicolas Vaughan wrote:

> Hi,
> I've been unsuccessfully trying to use symbol OpenType fonts in  
> XeTeX. I only get little squares as a result.
> E.g.,
>
> \fontspec[Scale=MatchLowercase]{Rococo Ornaments One MT}
> 1234567890
> ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWYXZ
> abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwyxz
>
> Is there any trick for loading this fonts for XeTeX?

I'm not familiar with this particular font, but most likely the  
symbols aren't encoded as Latin letters and numerals, etc., but  
instead (more correctly) with Unicode values in the private use area.  
Try character codes such as \char"F041 and see if that produces  
anything.

You can use a tool such as SIL ViewGlyph <http://scripts.sil.org/ViewGlyph_home 
 > to check the character inventory and encoding of the font.

JK