[XeTeX] Binding control sequence to input character

[Dominik Wujastyk]

Since the GNU FreeFont font is GPL'ed and the source code is publicly
available, a more elegant solution would be to get the sources, and modify
the particular characters in the font to meet your preferences, perhaps
using FontForge <http://fontforge.github.io/en-US/>.  Give the font a new
name, and Bob's your uncle.

Best,
Dominik


On 22 December 2014 at 08:47, ShreeDevi Kumar <shreeshrii at gmail.com> wrote:

> Changing the define to the following fixed the positioning issue also.
>
>     \def~{\kern-1.5pt\raisebox{-.3ex}{\Large{ꣳ}}}%
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> ShreeDevi
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> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 11:22 AM, ShreeDevi Kumar <shreeshrii at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thank you for your reply. Initially I could not figure out how to
>> deactivate the catcode in the definition.
>>
>> Now, I have got it to work. It is for increasing the size of A8F3 DEVANAGARI
>> SIGN CANDRABINDU VIRAMA in the Siddhanta font.
>>
>> Here is the code that worked for me ...
>> ----
>> % This is a Unicode file in devanagari script for processing with XeLaTex.
>> \documentclass[11pt]{article}
>> \usepackage{fontspec}
>> \usepackage{polyglossia}
>> \usepackage{xcolor}
>> \setmainfont{FreeSerif}
>> \newfontfamily\englishfont{FreeSerif}
>> \newfontfamily\sanskritfont[Script=Devanagari]{Siddhanta}
>>
>> %\newfontfamily\devanagarifont[Script=Devanagari,Language=Sanskrit]{FreeSerif}
>> \setdefaultlanguage{sanskrit}
>> \setotherlanguage{english}
>> %
>> \begingroup
>>   \lccode`\~=`ꣳ
>>   \lowercase{\endgroup
>>     \def~{{\Large\textcolor{red}{ꣳ}}}%
>>   }
>> \catcode`ꣳ=\active
>> %
>> \begin{document}
>> आपो॒ वा इ॒दꣳ सर्वं॒ विश्वा॑ भू॒तान्यापः॑ प्रा॒णा वा आपः॑ \\
>> प॒शव॒ आपोऽन्न॒मापोऽमृ॑त॒मापः॑ स॒म्राडापो॑ वि॒राडापः॑ \\
>> स्व॒राडाप॒श्छन्दा॒ꣳस्यापो॒ ज्योती॒ꣳष्यापो॒ \\
>> यजू॒ꣳष्याप॑स्स॒त्यमाप॒स्सर्वा॑ दे॒वता॒ आपो॒  \\
>> भूर्भुव॒स्सुव॒राप॒ ओं॥
>> \end{document}
>> %%
>> --------------
>>
>> I have another question now... is it possible to move this letter a bit
>> to left - at the larger size the intercharacter spacing is larger than the
>> rest of the text.
>>
>> I have attached the generated pdf - the 'mark' in question is in red.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Shree
>>
>> ShreeDevi
>> ____________________________________________________________
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>>
>> On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Philip Taylor <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Philip Taylor wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> ShreeDevi Kumar wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>>  Is it possible in xelatex to bind a control sequence to an input
>>>>> character ?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I cannot think why not :  can you not simply write :
>>>>
>>>>      \def \mycontrolsequence {...}
>>>>
>>>
>>> or even :
>>>
>>>         \let \mycontrolsequence = ...
>>>
>>>
>>> Philip Taylor
>>>
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