<p dir="ltr">Although personaly I'd consider such a solution a poor hack compared to a well designed font that is fit for purpose. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Andrew</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 13/03/2014 10:51 AM, "maxwell" <<a href="mailto:maxwell@umiacs.umd.edu">maxwell@umiacs.umd.edu</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 2014-03-12 14:47, Joshua and Amy wrote:<br>
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I'm typesetting with XeLaTeX, using fontspec, and calling a font<br>
provided to me by the publisher of a manuscript I'm working on. (Same<br>
as my previous post!)<br>
<br>
The language I work with has a letter O with circumflex and breve<br>
(U+00F4,U+0306): ô̆. However, the publisher-provided font does not<br>
use mark-to-mark positioning, so when I typeset in XeLaTeX, the<br>
combining breve overlays the circumflex.<br>
<br>
Back in January of 2013, there was discussion of this very issue,<br>
which included talk of a potentially forthcoming solution where XeTeX<br>
would handle this problem for us. Does anyone know whether there is<br>
now a straightforward way of doing this?<br>
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I'm the one who started the thread a year ago, and I'm very definitely interested in this problem. The post saying that this problem would soon be fixed is this one:<br>
<a href="http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2013-January/024031.html" target="_blank">http://tug.org/pipermail/<u></u>xetex/2013-January/024031.html</a><br>
namely<br>
...next XeTeX (thanks the new HarfBuzz layout engine),<br>
will try to position the accents using their bounding boxes<br>
if the font does not have a GPOS table, so it should produce<br>
better results in this case (unless the font in question<br>
does have a GPOS table).<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Khaled<br>
Afaict, this does not work under the TeXLive 2013 version, at least not with this publisher's font. Am I missing s.t.?<br>
<br>
Mike Maxwell<br>
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