David Given

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Feb 24	comment	Unicode in XeTeX with automatic font substitution? This still requires me to manually tell TeX which font to use for each script type, right?
Feb 24	comment	Unicode in XeTeX with automatic font substitution? Well, font fallback requires mixing fonts --- that's what it's all about! This is what stuff like PANOSE is for; to allow the system to determine what fonts look like the one the user asked for to allow automatic font substitution for unsupported glyphs. I'm used to Freetype/Pango, which does all of this automatically, hence my surprise that TeX doesn't...
Feb 23	awarded	Supporter
Feb 23	comment	Unicode in XeTeX with automatic font substitution? This is actually a fairly plausible approach; because my document is machine generated I can just test for every single glyph up front and produce human-legible warnings if they're not available. But is this not a completely standard requirement? Surely any document that's in primarily one script but with sections in other scripts is going to need to mix-and-match Unicode fonts?
Feb 23	comment	Unicode in XeTeX with automatic font substitution? Not feasible, I'm afraid --- as a Debian package, I need to make sure my stuff works with the Debian packages that are available, which means the 2009 version.
Feb 23	awarded	Student
Feb 23	asked	Unicode in XeTeX with automatic font substitution?