On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 2:43 AM, Guenter Milde <mi...@users.sf.net> wrote: > On 2014-03-10, stefano franchi wrote: >> Question for the LaTeX font experts: > >> Is there a *single* font family that contains enough glyphs to cover >> Latin scrpts plus European diacritics and Greek and Cyrillic and can >> be used with DVI output? > > CM. If you install CM-Super and the CB-Greek fonts or define substitutes. > > Actually, as this are more than 280 glyphs, no single 8-bit font file > could be used. Instead, you must use the "fontenc" package and suitable font > encodings. This also means you are free to combine font families "at will". > See the substitutefont package for examples. > http://www.ctan.org/pkg/substitutefont
Hi Guenter, thanks for the info about cm-super. I had already given a quick look at your substitutefont package but I am not sure I can use it with the required setup. In particular, it seems fontenc has some serious issues with tex4ht and should be avoided. So I guess the answer to my question is simply: "It can't be done" Or better: "Such a wide glyph coverage can only be obtained by either: 1. using fontenc (and perhaps your substitutefont) and switching between different sets of more limited fonts, or 2. having direct access to a wide coverage OTF font either directly through XeTeX low-level font commands or through the higher level fontspec package" Since neither option seems to be supported out of the box by tex4ht, I guess my focus should now revert back to the latter. Thanks for the help. Stefano -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA stef...@tamu.edu http://stefano.cleinias.org
