[XeTeX] lacking precomposed character

[jadolov k]

Yes, I obviously tried to use other fonts, and some of them worked quite
well. However, I am forced by the editor to use Minion Pro as the main font
for this publication, so I could not choose another one, even if it worked
better. By the way, the kind of "fake" diaritics (like the one suggested by
John Was, above in this conversation) can be suggested as a new feature
implement into the XUnicode package.

Thanks to all!!!
A.K.

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:57 AM, David J. Perry
<hospes.primus at verizon.net>wrote:

> Yves is right about Charis SIL being very good at combining diacritics
> (because the font creator took some special steps).  If you are using Mac OS
> X, you could also try using any font that contains the combining macron
> (U+0304).  OS X (unlike Windows) tries to position combining diacritics
> properly (even with fonts that aren't specifically designed for this, like
> Charis SIL) and frequently the results are just fine.  That would give you a
> larger choice of fonts; if the positioning of the macron over schwa wasn't
> quite good enough for you in generic fonts, you could fall back on Charis
> SIL.
>
> David
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yves Codet" <ycodet at club-internet.fr>
> To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 3:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] lacking precomposed character
>
>
> Hello.
>
> Le 18 mai 09 à 15:58, jadolov k a écrit :
>
>  Hi to all,
>> What I need to obtain is a certain character with the macro sign
>> above it (namely, a schwa with a macron, that serves to the
>> transliteration needs for Ancient Indonesian). However, the Unicode
>> standard lacks a precomposed entry for that character. Still, with
>> the package Xunicode I can use the command \= to add a combining
>> unicode compliant macron sign to any character (can't I?). The
>> problem is that the font I use (Minion Pro) does not have a good
>> combining macron glyph. Therefore, when I write
>> \={<something_strange>} I obtain only this <something_strange>
>> followed by a null character instead of being "covered" with a macron.
>>
>
> Sorry if the following remark is silly. To avoid such difficulties,
> you might consider using a better font (better for what you want to
> do). As far as I could see, Charis SIL can combine any letter with any
> diacritic, and can stack diacritics as is shown in the second (and
> meaningless :) example below.
>
> It's available here:
>
>
> http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=CharisSILfont
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Yves
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>
>
>
> Hello.
>
>
> Le 18 mai 09 à 15:58, jadolov k a écrit :
>
>
>  Hi to all,
>  What I need to obtain is a certain character with the macro sign above it
> (namely, a schwa with a macron, that serves to the transliteration needs for
> Ancient Indonesian). However, the Unicode standard lacks a precomposed entry
> for that character. Still, with the package Xunicode I can use the command
> \= to add a combining unicode compliant macron sign to any character (can't
> I?). The problem is that the font I use (Minion Pro) does not have a good
> combining macron glyph. Therefore, when I write \={<something_strange>} I
> obtain only this <something_strange> followed by a null character instead of
> being "covered" with a macron.
>
>
> Sorry if the following remark is silly. To avoid such difficulties, you
> might consider using a better font (better for what you want to do). As far
> as I could see, Charis SIL can combine any letter with any diacritic, and
> can stack diacritics as is shown in the second (and meaningless :) example
> below.
>
>
> It's available here:
>
>
>
> http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=CharisSILfont
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> Yves
>
>
>
>
>
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>
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