[XeTeX] how to add a character from another font

[Zdenek Wagner]

Yes, it should. XeTeX offers many different classes.

Zdeněk Wagner
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http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz

2015-04-12 15:38 GMT+02:00 ShreeDevi Kumar <shreeshrii at gmail.com>:

> Thanks you for your reply.
>
> I am already using ucharclasses for switching between Superscripts and
> Tamil Script. I wasn't sure whether it would support switching to more than
> two blocks.
>
> I'll give it a try.
>
> ShreeDevi
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> On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I do not know sanskrit and do not know how it is written in tamil (I do
>> not even know the tamil script) but if I understand it well, there is 1:1
>> transliteration from devanagari to tamil but avagraha is missing. In such a
>> case you can either use ucharclasses to display acagraha from a visually
>> compatible devanagari font or (if allowed by the font license) create a
>> copy of a tamil font and insert the avagraha glyph (eg by fontforge). And,
>> of course, you can send a feature request to the font developer.
>>
>> Zdeněk Wagner
>> http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
>> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
>>
>> 2015-04-12 8:17 GMT+02:00 ShreeDevi Kumar <shreeshrii at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> I am displaying a sanskrit text in tamil script. The tamil font does not
>>> have support for Unicode Character 'DEVANAGARI SIGN AVAGRAHA' (U+093D)
>>>
>>>
>>> Please see
>>> http://sanskritdocuments.org/pdfjs/web/viewer.html?file=http://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_raama/adhyaatmaRamsundara-ta.pdf#zoom=auto&pagemode=thumbs&page=3
>>>
>>> fro a sample.
>>>
>>> How do I add one character from another font to display it correctly.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ShreeDevi
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