[XeTeX] XeTeX, fontspec, OTF, and fontdimens

[Khaled Hosny]

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 11:49:15AM +0100, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> 
> Am 20.02.2011 um 02:12 schrieb mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca:
> 
> >However, if I use XeTeX's default Computer Modern typewriter font
> >by means
> >of the \ttfamily macro, without loading fontspec, then the spaces
> >scale
> >and are not stretchable by default; it's resetting the fontdimens
> >on every
> >size change but that's not a problem because the defaults are correct.
> >Loading fontspec causes it to use Latin Modern and we're back where we
> >started.
> 
> XeTeX' Computer Modern default is actually Latin Modern. Without
> fontspec it loads the PostScript variants of Computer Modern.

I'm not sure what this means, but without fontspec (or EU1 fontenc)
XeTeX loads exactly the same computer modern fonts as other engines in
your distribution.

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Egyptian