<span style='font-family:Verdana'><span style='font-size:12px'>>Switch to XeTeX and access it at codepoint: U+025E2 .<br />
>e.g. as \char"25E2<br />
><br />
>with a font that has this character. There are many.<br />
>(see attached image)<br />
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Thanks Ross! The fonts in my Font window (as suggested in your attached image) are actually Mac Fonts,<br />
not TeX/LaTeX fonts. So I'm afraid they are of no help ; I can without difficulty<br />
print whatever character I please in the source file and compile it with<br />
XeLaTeX, but the exotic characters aren't displayed in the PDF, which is not<br />
surprising. The \char command is not better : the minimal example<br />
<br />
\documentclass{article}<br />
\begin{document}<br />
Here is an exotic character : \char"25E2 or <character written directly here><br />
\end{document}<br />
<br />
does not work, as the PDF does not display the exotic character.<br />
What is missing from my example is a font specification, right? I browsed<br />
http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/ but could not find any indication<br />
of which fonts handle exotic Unicode characters.<br />
<br />
On the extremely short file above, compilation with XeLaTeX (in TeXShop) was<br />
around ten times longer a pdflatex compilation on a long .tex file. Is that normal<br />
behaviour?<br />
<br />
Ewan<br />
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