How about doing a little font editing and adding italicized versions of the four characters you want to your main font?
On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 at 13:58, Benct Philip Jonsson <b...@melroch.se> 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 > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex >
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