Re: Unicode Cuneiform font

Am Fri, 1 Aug 2014 10:15:34 +0200 schrieb A. Erhardt:

> Hello,
>  
> can anybody please give me some help on how to include cuneiform signs into my XeLaTeX document?
> (ideally with a minimum example).
> Here is the list of signs (actually, the pdf file under "Weblinks" at the bottom) I would like to use:
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicodeblock_Keilschrift
>  
> and here is my sample file
> 
>  
> \documentclass[11pt]{article}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \newfontscript{Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform}{xsux} %???
> \begin{document}
> \section{Unicode support}
>  \subsection{Cuneifom}
> .... %??? (how do I insert the signs?) 
> \end{document}
> with lots of things tried between the  \subsection{Cuneifom} and the \end{document} statement,
> without success. 
>  
> Maybe I also would have to modify my fontspec file.
> I see a file fontspec-xetex.sty
> in my MikTex/tex/latex/fontspec/
> folder, but I am not sure where (or if one is allowed) to change it.
>  
> I am running MiKTex 2.9 on my Windows XP PC.

You need a font with the glyphs. I used Akkadian
(http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/)


\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\newfontface\cuneiformfont{Akkadian}

\begin{document}
\section{Unicode support}
\subsection{Cuneifom}

{\cuneiformfont % a new command to switch to the font
\symbol{"12000}
\symbol{"12001}
\symbol{"12002}}

{\fontspec{Akkadian}%or directly with fontspec
 \symbol{"12003}\symbol{"12004}\symbol{"12005}}


\end{document}

-- 
Ulrike Fischer 
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/


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