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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>Oh, it's probably still in vertical
mode at the start of the line - just put \leavevmode at the start of the
definition (either of \overstrike or of the schwa:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>
<P 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{\leavevmode <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></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>Hope that works!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>John</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </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> Tuesday, May 19, 2009 12:15
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [XeTeX] lacking precomposed
character</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2></FONT><BR></DIV>Oh, thank you this
is almost what I needed.
<DIV>I say almost because it works quite well in the middle of a word, but if
the line contains only that glyph (this is what I've done as a first try), the
macron ends up to go <B>below</B> the letter, instead of going <B>above</B>
it...</DIV>
<DIV>I wish I knew the syntax of TeX as well as you do, but unfortunately I
don't. I tried to change some of the parameters of the \def you suggested, but
it went even worse, so I gave up.</DIV>
<DIV>However, thank you very much.</DIV>
<DIV>A.K.</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2></FONT><BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:37 PM, John Was <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:john.was@ntlworld.com">john.was@ntlworld.com</A>></SPAN>
wrote:<BR>
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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>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>
<P 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</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT size=2><FONT
face="Courier New"><SPAN> </SPAN>\kern -0.5\wd0 \kern -0.5\wd1
\copy1 \kern -0.5\wd1 \kern 0.5\wd0}</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P 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 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P 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 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P 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 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB></SPAN></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P 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 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 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 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 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 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><FONT
color=#888888>
<P 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 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 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 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 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB></SPAN></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-GB></SPAN></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P 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'"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Minion Pro'"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </P></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial"><B>From:</B> <A
title=jadolov.chat@gmail.com href="mailto:jadolov.chat@gmail.com"
target=_blank>jadolov k</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=xetex@tug.org
href="mailto:xetex@tug.org" target=_blank>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></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>