[XeTeX] Diacritics

[José Carlos Santos]

On 03-05-2010 19:30, Juan Francisco Fraile Vicente wrote:

> You can find all the characters included in a font in the «character
> map». In Linux, type in the terminal 'charmap'. If you are in Windows, I
> think it is in 'Accesories→System Tools→Character Map'. In the character
> map you can find precombined characters and combinable diacritical marks.
> If you want to know where is the accent in your keyboard, you can
> explore your layout keyboard (whatever is your OS) and there you can
> find where the diacritical marks are (or change, if it is necessary, the
> layout to another language-distribution more comfortable for your work).
> I give an example of the problem for better understanding: if you want
> to write the character 'v' with a macron, it is not possible, for
> instance, in Word or other word-processors, because it does not exist as
> a precombined character in unicode. Perhaps you can get a 'v' with a
> macron over it only using the combinable diacritical mark (perhaps).

Thanks. Now I know that, yes, DTLUnicoST has an acute accent; its 
position is 0301.

> But I think that in TeX, LaTeX, XeTeX this shouldn't be a problem if you
> are using this
>
> |[Mapping=tex-text]

But I am using it. I repeat: if I compile this file:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{DTLUnicoST}
\begin{document}
ń
\end{document}

I get nothing.

Best regards,

José Carlos Santos