Can you provide a bit more detail? Maybe a small example document?
Alan
Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
I have a somewhat unusual problem. In a document produced using
XeLaTeX I need to use four Unicode letters with scarce font support in
italicized words and passages but the font which I have to use
supports these characters only in roman. The obvious solution is to
use the FakeSlant feature of fontspec but I don’t want to enclose
these characters in a command argument, in the hope that a future
version of the document can use an italic font which supports these
characters, but neither do I (perhaps needless to say) want to use
fake italics except for these four characters. In other words I would
like to perform some kind of “keyhole surgery” in the preamble and use
these characters normally in the body of the document, which I guess
means having to make them active and somehow detect when they are
inside the argument of `\textit`. (Note: it is appropriate to use
`\textit` rather than `\emph` here because the purpose of the
italicization is to mark text as being in an object language in a
linguistic text.) Is that at all possible? I guess I could wrap
`\textit` in a macro which locally redefines the active characters,
but I’m not sure how to do that, nor how to access the glyphs
corresponding to the characters once the characters are active. I am a
user who isn’t afraid of using and making the most of various packages
or of writing an occasional custom command to wrap up some repeatedly
needed operation, but I am no expert. I am aware of all the arguments
against fake italics — that is why I want to limit the damage as much
as possible! — but I have no choice here. Waiting for the/an
appropriate font to include italic versions of these characters is not
an option at the moment.
/Benct
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