[XeTeX] combine 2 glyphs with xelatex

[Zdenek Wagner]

Thank you, removing the "script" solves the problem:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{FreeSans}
\begin{document}
ऽे
\end{document}

Zdeněk Wagner
https://www.zdenek-wagner.eu/

po 11. 3. 2024 v 11:13 odesílatel Antonis Tsolomitis
<antonis.tsolomitis at gmail.com> napsal:
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> What you ask is easy, at least with NewComputerModern fonts.
> For this task you just need to disable the Script. It is the Script
> that puts the dotted circle not the font or xelatex.
> Now since what you want is not supported by the Script for Devanagari
> you may need some horizontal adjustment with \kern as below:
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> \documentclass{article}
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> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \newfontfamily{\noscriptdevanagari}{NewCM10Devanagari-Regular.otf}
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> \begin{document}
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> {\noscriptdevanagari
> \symbol{"093D}\kern-1pt\symbol{"0947}
> }
>
> \end{document}
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> Antonis.
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> On Mon, 2024-03-11 at 10:40 +0100, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> > I'm afraid not or at least not easily. The matras are present in the
> > font without the dotted circle but the circle is present in the font
> > as a glyph which is inserted by the shaping engine if matra is used
> > without the consonant. Thus the solution suggested by John Waś will
> > not work because you will still get the dotted circle meaning that
> > the
> > consonant is missing. You must somehow force the shaping to think
> > that
> > the consonant is here or find a font where the dotted circle is
> > missing. I am not a font expert thus I do not know how to do it.
> >
> > Zdeněk Wagner
> > https://www.zdenek-wagner.eu/
> >
> > po 11. 3. 2024 v 10:00 odesílatel François Patte
> > <francois.patte at mi.parisdescartes.fr> napsal:
> > >
> > > Le 2024-03-11 00:11, Zdenek Wagner a écrit :
> > > > Bonjour
> > > >
> > > > avagraha is an independent vowel thus it IMHO cannot be combined
> > > > with
> > > > a matra but it works fine with consonants, try this:
> > >
> > > Thank you for this answer. I would like to reproduce the sign used
> > > to
> > > note a pluta in devanagari text (I attach an image in yellow color)
> > > and
> > > the solution I wanted to create for this purpose would have been a
> > > good
> > > solution....
> > >
> > > Is there a way to create this pluta sign with xelatex?
> > >
> > > Thank you.
> > >
> > >
> > > > ne 10. 3. 2024 v 22:39 odesílatel François Patte
> > > > <francois.patte at mi.parisdescartes.fr> napsal:
> > > > >
> > > > > Bonjour,
> > > > >
> > > > > I would like to combine glyphs using xelatex : the glyphs are:
> > > > > U+0947
> > > > > and U+093D if I write \symbol{"0947}\symbol{"093D}, I get the
> > > > > two
> > > > > glyphs
> > > > > side by side, the first one with a dotted circle below.
> > > > >
> > > > > What I want is the first one combined with the second one ie.
> > > > > the
> > > > > first
> > > > > one above the second one.
> > > > >
> > > > > How can I get this result?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thank you.
> > > > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > François Patte
> > > UFR de mathématiques et informatique
> > > Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145
> > > Université Paris Descartes
> > > 45, rue des Saints Pères
> > > F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
> > > Tél. +33 (0)6 7892 5822
> > > http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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