<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Thanks for the suggestion, yes that would definitely be more elegant. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">However I wanted to change just one mark in Siddhanta font, and the catcode definition helps achieve that.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">ShreeDevi<br>____________________________________________________________<br>भजन - कीर्तन - आरती @ <a href="http://bhajans.ramparivar.com" target="_blank">http://bhajans.ramparivar.com</a><br></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 12:18 AM, Dominik Wujastyk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wujastyk@gmail.com" target="_blank">wujastyk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Since the GNU FreeFont font is GPL'ed and the source code is publicly available, a more elegant solution would be to get the sources, and modify the particular characters in the font to meet your preferences, perhaps using <a href="http://fontforge.github.io/en-US/" target="_blank">FontForge<span></span><span></span></a>. Give the font a new name, and Bob's your uncle.<br><br>Best,<br>Dominik<br> <br></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 December 2014 at 08:47, ShreeDevi Kumar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shreeshrii@gmail.com" target="_blank">shreeshrii@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Changing the define to the following fixed the positioning issue also.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"> \def~{\kern-1.5pt\raisebox{-.3ex}{\Large{ꣳ}}}%</font><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Thanks for the help.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr">ShreeDevi<br>____________________________________________________________<br>भजन - कीर्तन - आरती @ <a href="http://bhajans.ramparivar.com" target="_blank">http://bhajans.ramparivar.com</a><br></div></div></div>
<br></span><div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 11:22 AM, ShreeDevi Kumar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shreeshrii@gmail.com" target="_blank">shreeshrii@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Thank you for your reply. Initially I could not figure out how to deactivate the catcode in the definition. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">Now, I have got it to work. It is for increasing the size of A8F3<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>DEVANAGARI SIGN CANDRABINDU VIRAMA in the Siddhanta font.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">Here is the code that worked for me ...</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">----</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><div class="gmail_default">% This is a Unicode file in devanagari script for processing with XeLaTex.</div><div class="gmail_default">\documentclass[11pt]{article}</div><div class="gmail_default">\usepackage{fontspec}</div><div class="gmail_default">\usepackage{polyglossia}</div><div class="gmail_default">\usepackage{xcolor}</div><div class="gmail_default">\setmainfont{FreeSerif}</div><div class="gmail_default">\newfontfamily\englishfont{FreeSerif}</div><div class="gmail_default">\newfontfamily\sanskritfont[Script=Devanagari]{Siddhanta}</div><div class="gmail_default">%\newfontfamily\devanagarifont[Script=Devanagari,Language=Sanskrit]{FreeSerif}</div><div class="gmail_default">\setdefaultlanguage{sanskrit}</div><div class="gmail_default">\setotherlanguage{english}</div><div class="gmail_default">%</div><div class="gmail_default">\begingroup</div><div class="gmail_default"> \lccode`\~=`ꣳ</div><div class="gmail_default"> \lowercase{\endgroup</div><div class="gmail_default"> \def~{{\Large\textcolor{red}{ꣳ}}}%</div><div class="gmail_default"> }</div><div class="gmail_default">\catcode`ꣳ=\active</div><div class="gmail_default">%</div><div class="gmail_default">\begin{document}</div><div class="gmail_default">आपो॒ वा इ॒दꣳ सर्वं॒ विश्वा॑ भू॒तान्यापः॑ प्रा॒णा वा आपः॑ \\</div><div class="gmail_default">प॒शव॒ आपोऽन्न॒मापोऽमृ॑त॒मापः॑ स॒म्राडापो॑ वि॒राडापः॑ \\</div><div class="gmail_default">स्व॒राडाप॒श्छन्दा॒ꣳस्यापो॒ ज्योती॒ꣳष्यापो॒ \\</div><div class="gmail_default">यजू॒ꣳष्याप॑स्स॒त्यमाप॒स्सर्वा॑ दे॒वता॒ आपो॒ \\</div><div class="gmail_default">भूर्भुव॒स्सुव॒राप॒ ओं॥</div><div class="gmail_default">\end{document}</div><div class="gmail_default">%%</div><div class="gmail_default">--------------</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">I have another question now... is it possible to move this letter a bit to left - at the larger size the intercharacter spacing is larger than the rest of the text.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">I have attached the generated pdf - the 'mark' in question is in red.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Thanks,</div><div class="gmail_default">Shree</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr">ShreeDevi<br>____________________________________________________________<br>भजन - कीर्तन - आरती @ <a href="http://bhajans.ramparivar.com" target="_blank">http://bhajans.ramparivar.com</a><br></div></div></div><div><div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Philip Taylor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk" target="_blank">P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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Is it possible in xelatex to bind a control sequence to an input<br>
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I cannot think why not : can you not simply write :<br>
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