[XeTeX] fonts and diacritics

[Pander]

On 06/13/2015 04:10 PM, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> 2015-06-13 11:54 GMT+02:00 Pander <pander at users.sourceforge.net>:
>> ...
>>
>> Why don't you use UTF-8? In that way the content of your document is
>> better searchable and exchangeable.

Sorry, I meant searchability/reusability of the text in the source of
your document, not the output in PDF.

>>
> Searchability has nothing to do with input. I can input \v{c}  and the
> generated PDF will contain č. There are cases where macros are needed.
> If I need dot below as an accent, I have to type \d{d} because I do
> not have it on my keyboard and do not know how to add the dotbelow
> accent to the XKB map.
> 
>> For intuitively entering characters with diacritics in UTF-8, have a
>> look at https://www.createspace.com/3758226 Despite the title the
>> content is still valid. At the time of publication it was even further
>> than compose key bindings that were shipped with operating systems.
>>
>> To be able to show as many as possible characters with diacritics, I
>> used https://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/ Even some characters were
>> specially added upon my request for the creation of the book. Probably
>> all characters you need are already supported.
>>
>> I am using the upstream version of these fonts to have as many
>> characters as possible. For that I use a script with the following commands:
>>
>>
>>
>> TL=/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/fonts
>> rm -rf $TL/truetype/public/gnu-freefont
>> if [ ! -e freefont ]
>> then
>>     svn co svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/freefont/trunk/freefont
>> fi
>> cd freefont
>> svn update
>> cd sfd
>> make otf
>> cp -f *otf $TL/opentype/public/gnu-freefont/
>>
>>
> And do not forget to uninstall the version from TeX Live, if you have
> two versions, you may get into serious problems.

The is taken care of by the above commands. The TTF is removed and the
OTF is overriden. To also disable the fonts shipped from your
distribution you can use:


rm -rf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont


but of course you can to it the other way around and override the fonts
from the distro.

>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Pander
>>
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