Yes, I obviously tried to use other fonts, and some of them worked quite well. However, I am forced by the editor to use Minion Pro as the main font for this publication, so I could not choose another one, even if it worked better. <div>
By the way, the kind of "fake" diaritics (like the one suggested by John Was, above in this conversation) can be suggested as a new feature implement into the XUnicode package.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks to all!!!</div>
<div>A.K.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:57 AM, David J. Perry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hospes.primus@verizon.net">hospes.primus@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Yves is right about Charis SIL being very good at combining diacritics (because the font creator took some special steps). If you are using Mac OS X, you could also try using any font that contains the combining macron (U+0304). OS X (unlike Windows) tries to position combining diacritics properly (even with fonts that aren't specifically designed for this, like Charis SIL) and frequently the results are just fine. That would give you a larger choice of fonts; if the positioning of the macron over schwa wasn't quite good enough for you in generic fonts, you could fall back on Charis SIL.<br>
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David<br>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Yves Codet" <<a href="mailto:ycodet@club-internet.fr" target="_blank">ycodet@club-internet.fr</a>><br>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 3:44 AM<div class="im"><br>
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] lacking precomposed character<br>
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Hello.<br>
<br>
Le 18 mai 09 à 15:58, jadolov k a écrit :<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi to all,<br>
What I need to obtain is a certain character with the macro sign<br>
above it (namely, a schwa with a macron, that serves to the<br>
transliteration needs for Ancient Indonesian). However, the Unicode<br>
standard lacks a precomposed entry for that character. Still, with<br>
the package Xunicode I can use the command \= to add a combining<br>
unicode compliant macron sign to any character (can't I?). The<br>
problem is that the font I use (Minion Pro) does not have a good<br>
combining macron glyph. Therefore, when I write<br>
\={<something_strange>} I obtain only this <something_strange><br>
followed by a null character instead of being "covered" with a macron.<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
Sorry if the following remark is silly. To avoid such difficulties,<br>
you might consider using a better font (better for what you want to<br>
do). As far as I could see, Charis SIL can combine any letter with any<br>
diacritic, and can stack diacritics as is shown in the second (and<br>
meaningless :) example below.<br>
<br>
It's available here:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=CharisSILfont" target="_blank">http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=CharisSILfont</a><br>
<br>
Best wishes,<br>
<br>
Yves<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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<br>
<br>
Hello.<br>
<br>
<br>
Le 18 mai 09 à 15:58, jadolov k a écrit :<br>
<br>
<br>
Hi to all,<br>
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 Xunicode I can use the command \= 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 \={<something_strange>} I obtain only this <something_strange> followed by a null character instead of being "covered" with a macron.<br>
<br>
<br>
Sorry if the following remark is silly. To avoid such difficulties, you might consider using a better font (better for what you want to do). As far as I could see, Charis SIL can combine any letter with any diacritic, and can stack diacritics as is shown in the second (and meaningless :) example below.<br>
<br>
<br>
It's available here:<br>
<br>
<br>
<a href="http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=CharisSILfont" target="_blank">http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=CharisSILfont</a><br>
<br>
<br>
Best wishes,<br>
<br>
<br>
Yves<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br></div></div>
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</blockquote>
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