You can find all the characters included in a font in the «character map». In Linux, type in the terminal 'charmap'. If you are in Windows, I think it is in 'Accesories→System Tools→Character Map'. In the character map you can find precombined characters and combinable diacritical marks. <br>
If you want to know where is the accent in your keyboard, you can explore your layout keyboard (whatever is your OS) and there you can find where the diacritical marks are (or change, if it is necessary, the layout to another language-distribution more comfortable for your work). <br>
I give an example of the problem for better understanding: if you want to write the character 'v' with a macron, it is not possible, for instance, in Word or other word-processors, because it does not exist as a precombined character in unicode. Perhaps you can get a 'v' with a macron over it only using the combinable diacritical mark (perhaps). <br>
<br><br>But I think that in TeX, LaTeX, XeTeX this shouldn't be a problem if you are using this <br><pre class="prettyprint"><code><span class="pun">[</span><span class="typ">Mapping</span><span class="pun">=</span><span class="pln">tex</span><span class="pun">-</span><span class="pln">text</span><span class="pun">]<br>
</span></code> <br></pre>and LaTeX accents: <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Latex_Accents.png">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Latex_Accents.png</a>, although the font hadn't the precombined character. <br>
I think it is important to check that first points, and also, to use a unicode font in your XeTeX editor.<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>J. F. Fraile<br><br>-----------------------------------------<br>J. F. Fraile<br>Departamento de Ciencias de la Antigüedad<br>
Área de Latín<br>Universidad de Zaragoza<br>------------------------------------------<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/5/3 José Carlos Santos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jcsantos@fc.up.pt">jcsantos@fc.up.pt</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On 03-05-2010 15:43, Ulrike Fischer wrote:<br>
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Are you able to get the accent in this font e.g. in Word or a<br>
similar application?<br>
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No. I tried it with Word and also with Wordpad, but all I got was "´n".<br>
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But you get an accent. The main questions are is this accent in the<br>
font, and if yes where? Could you try to find it in the "character<br>
table"?<br>
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I am most sorry, but I don't know how to do that. Is it something that you can explain me without too much effort?<br>
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Thanks you very much for trying to help me.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
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Jose Carlos Santos<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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