[XeTeX] Automatic glyph substitution

[Gareth Hughes]

On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 02:09 +0200, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have simila problem with old (commercial) fonts from Storm's
> Typokatalog. I have just extended the tex-text.map and it now
> contains:
> 
> ; TECkit mapping for TeX input conventions + Storm Typokatalog 4 fonts
> <-> Unicode characters
> 
> LHSName "TeX-storm4t"
> RHSName "UNICODE"
> 
> pass(Unicode)
> 
> ; ligatures from Knuth's original CMR fonts
> U+002D U+002D                   <>      U+2013  ; -- -> en dash
> U+002D U+002D U+002D    <>      U+2014  ; --- -> em dash
> 
> U+0027                  <>      U+2019  ; ' -> right single quote
> U+0027 U+0027   <>      U+201D  ; '' -> right double quote
> U+0022                   >      U+201D  ; " -> right double quote
> 
> U+0060                  <>      U+2018  ; ` -> left single quote
> U+0060 U+0060   <>      U+201C  ; `` -> left double quote
> 
> U+0021 U+0060   <>      U+00A1  ; !` -> inverted exclam
> U+003F U+0060   <>      U+00BF  ; ?` -> inverted question
> 
> ; additions supported in T1 encoding
> U+002C U+002C   <>      U+201E  ; ,, -> DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK
> U+003C U+003C   <>      U+00AB  ; << -> LEFT POINTING GUILLEMET
> U+003E U+003E   <>      U+00BB  ; >> -> RIGHT POINTING GUILLEMET
> 
> ; additional ligatures for Štorm's fonts
> U+0066 U+0069   <>      U+FB01  ; fi
> U+0066 U+006C   <>      U+FB02  ; fl
> 
> I specify it as Mapping when loading the font.

Thanks for that. I have never been able to build TECkit on my Linux box
for some reason, so was hoping for another solution. However, I gave in
and built TECkit on a Windows VM. It made me think that it would be
useful to have an online library of mappings along with their compiled
files. Does anyone else on the list have any useful map files to
suggest?

Gareth.

> 
> 2013/7/12 Gareth Hughes <garzohugo at gmail.com>:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I am using Gill Sans MT for headings in a document that I'm setting. The
> > font I'm using does not automatically substitute the ligature glyphs
> > 'fi' and 'fl' that are supplied with the typefaces. Without editing the
> > font files, is there an easy way to make the substitution automatic
> > within the document? I know that I can use the \namedglyph command
> > sequence with xltxtra, but I am hoping for something more graceful.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Gareth.
> >
> >
> >
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