[XeTeX] adding some diacritics to a font

[Fr. Michael Gilmary]

François Patte wrote:

> Here the solution I found: watching to the garamond through fontforge, I
> found some glyphs with an underdot, for instance 1EA0 (which is Ạ).
> Asking "info glyph" from fontforge, it said that it was a composed
> glyph: u+0041 and u+0323
>
> So, I tried to use \char"0323, instead of \char"2024, but I only got a
> crossed rectangle over the letter....  char"0323 does not exist in this
> font in spite of the fact that composite glyph using it, exist in this
> font....
>
> This my first question: why?? Why the composite exists and not one of
> the composants?
>   
> Looking further in the the font, I found three glyphs: E1E0, E1E1, E1E2
> which could do what I wanted, and, using the first one, I got a perfect
> underdotted letter....
>
> These glyphs are called (according to fontforge): dotbelowcomb,
> space_dotbelowcomb.cap, space_dotbelowcomb.sc and, still from fontforge,
> they are for private/corporate use.
>
> My second question: why (again)?
>
> And my third question: if they are for private use, my source document
> is not transferable to another person, unless he has the same version of
> the fonts; am I right?
>
>   


I'm sorry, François, I can't answer these questions ...  Ross Moore and 
Adam Twardoch (among others) are qualified to answer, it seems to me.
Do you have OTF version of Garamond Premier Pro?

But I have an observation/question related to the third question. 
Recently, I had problems printing on a pc the pdf generated on the Mac 
with Garamond Premier Pro. I thought we solved the problem by converting 
the pdf to a ps and going from there. But upon closer inspection, the 
fonts were still not printing with optimal clarity. The solution was to 
load the font(s) on the pc and then everything was perfect---printed via 
Adobe Reader.

The pdf was generated with:

xelatex  -output-driver="xdvipdfmx -qq -E -r 1200"

Maybe there's really no other way to achieve *optimal* print resolution 
but to load the font? Of course, I suppose there could be any number of 
problems with printer settings, etc along the way. Any ideas, anyone?



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