On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 11:55:41AM +0100, Philip Taylor wrote: > > > Will Robertson wrote: > > > >> On 24 Apr 2015, at 1:51 am, Khaled Hosny <khaledho...@eglug.org> wrote: > >> > >> Even shorter: > >> \ifnum\XeTeXcountvariations\font>0\fi\bye > > > > :) > > Phew! Glad to hear that (for once) it’s not fontspec that is broken! > > Well, I have now worked through my entire collection of.ttc fonts, and > cannot find one that returns > 0 for \XeTeXcountvariations. Can anyone > let me have a copy of such a font (installable under Windows, of course) > so that I can experience at first hand the problem(s) that such fonts > can cause ?
Font variations is a feature of Apple’s AAT[1], and there is actually only a single publicly available font which has them[2] AFAIK. Anyway, XeTeX in TL 2015 dropped support for font variation entirely as xdvipdfmx does not support them, so \XeTeXcountvariations always returns 0 now. Regards, Khaled 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Advanced_Typography 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skia_(typeface) -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
