[XeTeX] adding some diacritics to a font

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 06.01.2009 um 23:14 schrieb François Patte:

> I want to use Garamong Pro otf fonts in a document where I need some
> diacritics which are not included in this font: under/over-dot  
> chars (ṇ
> ṅ ḷ )
>
> If I put:
>
> \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Garamond Premier Pro}
>
> These glyphs do not appear. If I add:
>
> \usepackage[garamond]{mathdesign}

Mathdesign is a very complex package that uses it's own font  
encodings. And T1 + TS1 for text!

>
> I can get these glyphs through ordinary latex command (\d n), but the
> whole document uses these mathdesign fonts....

The latter is no command, it's used in a declarative style. \d{n} is  
a command. Or \.{n}.


In short: I'd use for maths mathdesign and for text I'd use a regular  
fontspec font. And this font can be your Garamond Premier Pro! And in  
case you don't see any character with a dot below: remove  
xunicode.sty from the packages you use! Xunicode.sty translates  
typical LaTeX constructs like \d{n} to their real Unicode value. And  
if the font does not have a glyph at this position, then you'll see  
an OPEN BOX character, I think. Without xunicode.sty XeLaTeX will  
work like LaTeX and construct the final character from two (or more),  
and this construct will be unsearchable. And without xunicode.sty  
other things will fail, presumingly ... So it would be nice if one  
could switch off xunicode.sty for certain constructs!

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Greetings

   Pete

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