[XeTeX] Separate fonts for Latin and Greek with fontspec?

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Sat Sep 18 15:08:18 CEST 2010


On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 06:56:15PM +0100, David Cottenden wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Sorry if I missed this in the manual, but is it possible to use
> fontspec to map most unicode characters to one font, and some to
> another? In particular, my intended use is that I prefer the Latin
> characters in Adobe Garamond Pro to those in Myriad Pro, but the
> latter has Greek support whilst the former does not, and they're
> similar enough that with the odd Greek character (which is all I
> use!) they are pretty stylistically compatible. Is it possible to
> set things up so that Greek appears in Minion and Latin (and
> everything else) appears in Garamond?

No. You have to manually tag each text run to use the required font
(i.e. by simply using polyglossia).

-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer


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