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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>Hello Artemij</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>As an interim measure (until an
elegant solution is suggested), you can set the non-zero-width macron (positiong
00AF) on top of the schwa thus:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
size=2><FONT
face="Courier New">\def\overstrike#1#2{\setbox0=\hbox{#1}\setbox1=\hbox{#2}\copy0<?xml:namespace
prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
/><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
size=2><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>\kern -0.5\wd0 \kern -0.5\wd1 \copy1 \kern -0.5\wd1 \kern
0.5\wd0}<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman">\overstrike{<SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman">ə</FONT></SPAN>}{<SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman">¯</FONT></SPAN>}</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Of course that is tedious to type, so, after defining
\overstrike as above, you can use something like</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman">\def\<SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman">ə{<SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman">\overstrike{<SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman">ə</FONT></SPAN>}{<SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman">¯</FONT></SPAN>}</FONT></SPAN>}</FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB></SPAN></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Then for the schwa with macron just type
{\<SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT face="Times New Roman">ə} or simply \<SPAN
lang=EN-GB><FONT face="Times New Roman">ə if you don't mind adding a space after
it in the middle of a word, and an explicit space (\ ) after it if it comes at
the end of a word (personally I prefer {\<SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman">ə}so one doesn't have to think about the following
space).</FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB>This isn't very nice but it might help if you are in a hurry to get
through some piece of work, and you can search and replace on it afterwards when
something better is
suggested.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB>Best</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB>John</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
lang=EN-GB></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB></SPAN></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB></SPAN></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Minion Pro'"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Minion Pro'"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></o:p></SPAN> </P></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=jadolov.chat@gmail.com href="mailto:jadolov.chat@gmail.com">jadolov
k</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=xetex@tug.org
href="mailto:xetex@tug.org">Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other
platforms</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, May 18, 2009 2:58 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [XeTeX] lacking precomposed
character</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Hi to all,
<DIV>What I need to obtain is a certain character with the macro sign above it
(namely, a schwa with a macron, that serves to the transliteration needs for
Ancient Indonesian). However, the Unicode standard lacks a precomposed entry
for that character. Still, with the package <B>Xunicode</B> I can use the
command <B>\=</B> to add a combining unicode compliant macron sign to any
character (can't I?). The problem is that the font I use (Minion Pro) does not
have a good combining macron glyph. Therefore, when I write<B>
\={<something_strange>}</B> I obtain only
this <B><something_strange></B> followed by a null character
instead of being "covered" with a macron. </DIV>
<DIV>So, my question is: is there some way to substitute the glyph used by
Xunicode as the macron sign? something similar to the command
<B>\textsuperscript*</B> or <B>\fakesuperscript</B> provided by the
package <B>xltxtra</B>.</DIV>
<DIV>Any idea?</DIV>
<DIV>Thank all the people in advance.</DIV>
<DIV>Artemij Keidan</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>