[XeTeX] How to print a variation selectors?
Janusz S. Bień
jsbien at mimuw.edu.pl
Sun Oct 16 17:56:51 CEST 2022
On Sun, Oct 16 2022 at 17:40 +02, Janusz S. Bień wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 14 2022 at 8:16 +02, Janusz S. Bień wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I just noticed, to my pleasant surprise, that my Emacs renders VS1 with
>> the glyph used in the standard; the glyph is taken from Noto Sans
>> Manichaean Regular (no idea why Emacs selected just this very font).
>>
>> Actually I was looking for a font which contains glyphs for variation
>> selectors, so I tried to print it. As this did not work, I tried check
>> whether the VS1 works in the intended context, i.e. with e.g. MANICHAEAN
>> LETTER DALETH, and I am quite confused --- sometimes it works and
>> sometimes it doesn't.
>>
>> Please have a look at the enclosed examples. I will appreciate very much
>> your comments.
>
> I just noticed that in the list archive the first attachment looks
> strange, so I repeat it inline:
Unfortunately it doesn't help. So here is just plain text:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Noto Sans Manichaean}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\char"10AC5
\char"10AC5 ︀
\char"10AC5\char"FE00
︀
\char"FE00
^^^^fe00
\end{document}
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>
>
> Regards
>
> JSB
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