[XeTeX] Metrical sorts

[Jonathan Kew]

On 5 Jun 2007, at 6:28 am, John Was wrote:

> Hi
>
> Does anyone  have a recommended font for metrical sorts to indicate  
> vowel quantities, such as on the attached page?  (I would need the  
> full range, including 'double short over long' etc., and most of  
> them also have to be available as 'accents' above letters as well  
> as free-standing characters, sometimes in combination with ordinary  
> accents such as acute, though I can fiddle if necessary to achieve  
> that sort of complication.)
>

Have you looked at the character set supported by Charis SIL?

   http://scripts.sil.org/CharisSILFont

These fonts include a wide range of symbols, including combining  
diacritics and separate marks, particularly those that are used in  
linguistic transcription and similar contexts. Pretty much the  
complete "extended Latin" set in Unicode, along with a rich  
collection of technical symbols and marks. I don't know whether this  
would meet your needs, but it might be worth checking.

(See http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php? 
site_id=nrsi&item_id=CharisSIL_Technical#38fec032 for the specific  
Unicode ranges supported.)

JK

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