Will Robertson

Sorry I overlooked this previously. Probably a better option (?) is to check if the language/script is present and only load it if so. There should be enough commands in...

Doesn't XeTeX only use fontconfig on certain platforms? I've never come across it on a Mac.

@kberry — I'm 100% with you, but for some reason people REALLY LIKE using a font's real name :)

fontspec only provides an interface to what luaotfload and XeTeX can do. I’m out of the loop as to whether they support OT variable fonts… as soon as they have...

Ah, NB `dev2` not `deva2`. This is because XeTeX has to jump through hoops to turn the 4-digit code into an integer to then check against low-level return integers from...

I see what you mean, but have labels for things been much of a problem up to this point? I also think you can do some other interesting things with...

Thanks for the detailed analysis! I am embarrassed to admit that I thought at some point I did eliminate the inefficiency here — but either I didn't do it correctly...

@kwand — apologies, I'm having a hard time juggling family and work at the moment and TeX work has slipped behind. I couldn't promise a timeframe for an update on...

Just in case anyone else is reading — note this should be possible in LuaTeX but not in XeTeX. I’m not sure if this should be part of fontspec directly...

@FrankMittelbach — what do you think? I could experiment by putting this into fontspec in the shorter term, and we can decide later what to do about kernel matters...