<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello.<div><br><div><div>Le 18 mai 09 à 15:58, jadolov k a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">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></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>It's available here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=CharisSILfont">http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=CharisSILfont</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div>Yves</div><div><br></div><div></div></div></div></body></html>