[XeTeX] supplying missing glyphs?

[David J. Perry]

In addition to the fonts Herb suggested, Junicode, Gentium, Charis SIL and 
Times New Roman (the latter being the version supplied with my Windows Vista 
system) have all these characters.  They are all precomposed combinations 
that are defined in Unicode, so it's not surprising that many fonts with 
large character repertoires include them.  I'm sure that Lucida Grande (Mac) 
and Arial do also, and there are undoubtedly others.

If you are absolutely wedded to Hoefler Text, you can get the combinations 
that this font does not contain as follows: enter the base character 
followed by a combining mark.  Then kern the combining mark backwards 
(negative kerning value); if necessary, you can raise it with the raisebox 
command.  This sort of thing is a huge nuisance (but you did ask . . . )

David

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam McCollum" <acmccollum101 at gmail.com>
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 7:20 PM
Subject: [XeTeX] supplying missing glyphs?


Dear list members,

I like the Hoefler Text font very much, but I see that it apparently
doesn't have glyphs for a number of letters with diacritics, which I
sometimes need for transliteration; please see the example text below.
I've tried both unicode entry and the TeX way for entering these. Is
there any way at all to "fake" these glyphs or otherwise supply them?
Any and all suggestions welcome!

With thanks in advance,

Adam McCollum, Ph.D.
Lead Cataloger, Eastern Christian Manuscripts
Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
Saint John's University
P.O. Box 7300
Collegeville, MN  56321

(320) 363-2075 (phone)
(320) 363-3222 (fax)
www.hmml.org



Minimal example:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{xltxtra, polyglossia}

\defaultfontfeatures{Scale=MatchLowercase}

\setromanfont{Hoefler Text}

\begin{document}

\title{Test for Hoefler Text with Diacritical Marks}
\author{Yours truly}
\maketitle

ā å ḇ ḍ ē ǵ ḡ ğ ġ ǧ ḥ ḫ ħ ḳ ł ƚ ō ŏ œ ṛ š
ṣ ṭ ṯ ẓ Š Ḥ

\d h

\end{document}



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