In the TeXBook, it says that:
{\manual\char127} prints the dangerous bend glyph.
But it doesn't.
I can do it with \manfntsymbol{127}, but how can I switch to the manfnt font?
\font{manfnt} doesn't work, either.
[Tex/LaTex] How to load manual font from manfnt
symbols
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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\newfontfamily\wingdingsfont{Wingdings}
\newcommand\wingdings[1]{{\wingdingsfont\symbol{#1}}}
\usepackage{fonttable}
\begin{document}
\wingdings{40} 123-4567-8900
\fonttable{Wingdings}
\end{document}
Using two (or more) fonts in XeLaTeX (or LuaLaTeX) is very easy, since the fontspec package which handles fonts for those engines provides commands for loading new fonts and assigning macro names to them.
What you cannot do is have automatic switching from one font to another if XeTeX fails to find a glyph in a particular font.
Here's an example of font switching used for inserting phonetic characters (which many fonts don't have). The standard font that linguists use for phonetics is Doulos SIL. You can use it in XeLaTeX in the following way:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
% We are using Linux Libertine O as our main serifed font
\setmainfont{Linux Libertine O}
% now declare a command \doulos to load the Doulos SIL font
\newfontfamily\doulos{Doulos SIL}
% now create a \textIPA{} command
\DeclareTextFontCommand{\textIPA}{\doulos}
\begin{document}
Here is some text in the main font.
% We now have two ways to enter IPA characters directly in the document:
% Use the \doulos command inside a group
{\doulos [ðɪsɪzsəmfənɛtɪks]}
% or use the \textIPA command
\textIPA{[ðɪsɪzsəmfənɛtɪks]}
\end{document}
In your new example using checkmarks and crosses, you can do things similarly. Here I've used Arial Unicode MS and Zapf Dingbats to show two different versions of these characters (I don't have the Code2000 font). But the principle is exactly the same.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Arial Unicode MS}
\newfontfamily\dingbats{Zapf Dingbats}
\DeclareTextFontCommand{\textding}{\dingbats}
\begin{document}
\section{In the main font}
(✓) (✗)
\section{In the Dingbats font}
{ (\textding{✓}) (\textding{✗})}
\end{document}
Best Answer
You can see in
manmac.texhow it's loaded: give the following declaration at the beginning of your fileand then
will work.
With LaTeX one can use the
manfntcharacters withand
\manfntsymbol{127}. The package provides also symbolic names that can be found in the Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List, which is also available in TeX Live withtexdoc symbols(from the command line). For example, the dangerous bend symbol can be typeset with\dbend.