[XeTeX] Accessing individual Unicode characters
David Perry
hospes.primus at verizon.net
Sat Oct 17 17:51:03 CEST 2009
No need for BabelMap (a great little utility, for those who don't know
it); just type the Unicode value directly using the hex input method on
Mac OS X (hold down OPTION and type the hex digits--if you have enabled
this input method, as you do with keyboards in the International
settings) or the alt-plus method in Windows XP or Vista (hold down ALT,
type the PLUS key on the numeric keypad, type the hex value on the
regular keys, let go of ALT--clunky but still faster than leaving your
document to fire up BabelMap or another utility).
I personally prefer to use a nice sans-serif font for editing since it
is easy to read on my LCD screen; the \char"XXXX method avoids the
little blank boxes that result when my editing font doesn't have
whatever unusual character I'm using in the document font. Just a
personal preference . . .
David
Michiel Kamermans wrote:
> Just put them straight in your document? For high/hard unicode
> characters I use BabelMap, which will let you pick characters from the
> unicode 5.1 space, which you can then copy/paste straight into your
> document. XeTeX works with utf8 documents anyway, so unless your editor
> somehow refuses to let you use them (get a better editor =D), there's
> nothing stopping you just using any character in unicode directly
> (except for the high/low surrogates of course, but then those are
> illegal on their own in anyway).
>
> - Mike "Pomax" Kamermans
> nihongoresources.com
>
>
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