[XeTeX] adding some diacritics to a font

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 07.01.2009 um 13:33 schrieb Gareth Hughes:

> Whereas, if I input a pre-composed character, the typeface has to
> produce that glyph. Does this not mean that pre-composed characters  
> are
> a Bad Thing?


What your text editor has to perform to make a particular character  
appear on screen does not mean that the font is doing the same at  
printing time. Besides, there is an encoding used to save the text  
file. In it the character can be represented by it's position in  
Unicode, not necessarily by your effort to make it appear.


IMO pre-composed glyphs should be preferred. The font designer can  
make it appear optimal. "Artificially" composed characters can fail  
when one or more accents are attached.

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   Pete

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do not show him your poem.
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