[XeTeX] how to add a character from another font

[ShreeDevi Kumar]

Thanks you for your reply.

I am already using ucharclasses for switching between Superscripts and
Tamil Script. I wasn't sure whether it would support switching to more than
two blocks.

I'll give it a try.

ShreeDevi
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On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I do not know sanskrit and do not know how it is written in tamil (I do
> not even know the tamil script) but if I understand it well, there is 1:1
> transliteration from devanagari to tamil but avagraha is missing. In such a
> case you can either use ucharclasses to display acagraha from a visually
> compatible devanagari font or (if allowed by the font license) create a
> copy of a tamil font and insert the avagraha glyph (eg by fontforge). And,
> of course, you can send a feature request to the font developer.
>
> Zdeněk Wagner
> http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
>
> 2015-04-12 8:17 GMT+02:00 ShreeDevi Kumar <shreeshrii at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I am displaying a sanskrit text in tamil script. The tamil font does not
>> have support for Unicode Character 'DEVANAGARI SIGN AVAGRAHA' (U+093D)
>>
>>
>> Please see
>> http://sanskritdocuments.org/pdfjs/web/viewer.html?file=http://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_raama/adhyaatmaRamsundara-ta.pdf#zoom=auto&pagemode=thumbs&page=3
>>
>> fro a sample.
>>
>> How do I add one character from another font to display it correctly.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ShreeDevi
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