I figured it out. Now I got everything working. Thanks for you help.
On Apr 19, 2011, at 2:32 AM, John Was wrote:
> Hello
>
> I don't know if it will be of much help, but when I want to bring in a
> character from another font (such as the upper half-brackets U2E22 and U2E23
> you're having trouble with), I make the character active so that whenever TeX
> encounters it, it fetches it from another font which does have it. E.g.:
>
>
> \catcode"2E22=\active
> \def⸢{\leavevmode {\otherfont \char"2E22}}
>
> And if you find there is some undesirable visual effect, such as bunching up
> of this alien character, or that it isn't quite at the right height, you can
> add any necessary commands to this to make it look right in your main font.
> E.g.
>
> \catcode"2E22=\active
> \def⸢{\leavevmode {\otherfont \raise 0.15em \hbox{\char"2E22}}\kern 0.1em}
>
> Hope this helps - I'm not a LaTeX user but as far as I know these basic plain
> TeX commands usually work.
>
>
> John
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacobo Myerston" <jmyers...@gmail.com>
> To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex@tug.org>
> Sent: 18 April 2011 20:29
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] unicode characters not showing in xelatex
>
>
>> My preamble reads:
>>
>>
>> \usepackage{fontspec,xltxtra,xunicode}
>> \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
>> \setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX, Mapping=tex-text]{Linux Libertine O}
>> \newfontfamily\greek{Times New Roman}
>> \newfontfamily{\akk}{Linux Libertine O Italic}
>> \newfontfamily{\sux}[Letters=SmallCaps]{Linux Libertine O}
>> \newfontfamily{\Cun}{Akkadian}
>>
>>
>> All these fonts work in osx apps. Libertine works for me better than Times
>> New Roman in xelatex: it displays the subscript unicode numbers, but not
>> some special brackets used for critical editions: ⸢ and ⸣. I also get a
>> segmentation fault when trying to use DeJaVu Sans fonts.
>>
>> Jacobo
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> }
>> On Apr 18, 2011, at 2:22 PM, Mike Pomax Kamermans wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jacobo,
>>>
>>>> I'm experiencing problems with xelatex and unicode subscript numbers. They
>>>> work well in osx applications like Texshop and openoffice but they are not
>>>> displayed in the final pdf generated by xelatex.
>>>
>>> Have you made sure to load the appropriate fonts? (is there a
>>> \package{fontspec} and \setmainfont{My Unicode Supporting Font} line in
>>> your preamble, for example?). TexShop and OpenOffice pick their own
>>> "whichever works best" fonts, XeLaTeX will only use the fonts you tell it
>>> to.
>>>
>>> - Mike "Pomax" Kamermans
>>> nihongoresources.com
>>>
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