[XeTeX] accented character ṛ within \section{ṛ}

Gareth Hughes garzohugo at gmail.com
Mon Apr 26 18:53:30 CEST 2010


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TIMOTHY P. LIGHTHISER wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I use texlive/2009; TexShop 2.33; and 10.4.11.
> 
> I am also now using a font called Junicode (http://junicode.sourceforge.net).
> 
> When the accented character ṛ (-r- with an underdot) is input within
> \section{}, a box appears in the pdf rather than the character.
> 
> At the same time, however, this character does appear within the body
> of the text, as well as within the header.
> 
> A minimal example is below.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> 
> %!TEX TS-program = xelatex
> %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
> \documentclass[a4paper,10pt,draft,twoside]{book}
> \usepackage{xltxtra}
> \usepackage{lipsum}
> 
> \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Junicode}
> \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
> 
> \begin{document}
> \tableofcontents
> 
> \chapter{Tṛtīyo 'dhyāyaḥ}
> Tṛtīyo 'dhyāyaḥ
> 
> \lipsum[1-8]
> 
> \end{document}

You could use fake bold just for this character. If you set the weight
correctly, it shouldn't look too out of place among the real bold
characters.

Gareth.
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