[XeTeX] Fine tune selecting alternate glyphs
Szabolcs Horvát
szhorvat at gmail.com
Mon Feb 8 18:32:26 CET 2010
Hello,
I'm a XeTeX beginner, so bear with me :) It is possible to use
alternate shapes for certain letters, if the font supports it, e.g. as
in the following example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xunicode}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\begin{document}
\fontspec{GFSNeohellenic-Regular}δζΞ
\fontspec[Alternate=0]{GFSNeohellenic-Regular}δζΞ
\end{document}
The font used here is GFS Neohellenic, downloadable freely from
http://www.greekfontsociety.gr/pages/en_typefaces20th.html
And now, the questions:
1. This method switches the letter shapes for all of δ, ζ, and Ξ. Is it
possible to switch only some of them?
2. Ξ has a third shape (as seen on the screenshot and the font's PDF
brochure, in the link above). How can I access it? Alternate=1 (or any
other number) did not work.
3. Is there any way to use the alternate β, θ and φ letter shapes from
the font GFS Elpis (available from the same webpage)?
\fontspec[Alternate=0]{...} will not enable them, even though they're
listed as stylistic alternates in the font's PDF brochure.
Thank you for any replies in advance.
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