[XeTeX] Diacritical accent marks using \.{}, \d{} in Tamil/Malayalam

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Mon Sep 13 18:45:08 CEST 2010


On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:58:21PM -0230, P. P. Narayanaswami wrote:
> I need to put a diacritical dot over a character, and
> a dot under another character in Tamil/malayalam.  
> The usual TeX commands \.{}  and \d{} do not seem to work here,
> even if I use double parenthesis \.{{ }}  or \d{{ }}.
> The followinmg does not work
> 
> \def\tam{\fontspec[Script=Tamil]{Latha}}
> \tam 
> \d{{\tam   ரி}}  \.{{\tam ரி }}
> 
> Any help will be appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

Without a full test file, one can only guess about your setup, but it
might help to load xunicode package (after fontspec) in your permeable.

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
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