[XeTeX] Adobe Professional Fonts and Diacritics

[hanneder at staff.uni-marburg.de]

Undeclaring the definition of \d{s} does not work, as you predicted,  
but the other
solution works just fine. Thanks a lot, also to the other helpful suggestions!

Best
Jürgen



----- Nachricht von Ulrike Fischer <news3 at nililand.de> ---------
      Datum: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 14:25:46 +0200
        Von: Ulrike Fischer <news3 at nililand.de>
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> Am Wed, 9 Sep 2015 10:19:08 +0200 schrieb
> hanneder at staff.uni-marburg.de:
>
>> As a Sanskritist I can only use fonts if they produce a few
>> diacritics, nothing fancy, just macrons
>> and a few dots above or below a character. In normal LaTeX the ucs
>> package takes care of that.
>>
>> I have recently acquired a large font collection from Adobe, which has
>> all the latest
>> Pro(fessional) versions of such nice fonts as Arno, Minion, Caslon
>> etc. and wanted to use them with
>> my XeTeX based projects. To my great surprise, none of the fonts seem
>> to be able to produce
>> underdotted letters.
>>
>> I have tried this:
>>
>> \documentclass{article}
>> \usepackage{fontspec}
>> \setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Minion Pro}
>> \begin{document}
>>
>> Āāīūś  % works as expected.
>> ṣṇṭḍṃḥ % just crossed out boxes.
>>
>> \end{document}
>>
>> The first line comes out nicely, the second does not. I tried
>> Openoffice, but there the second line
>> is displayed by using substitute fonts. Before complaining to Adobe, I
>> have one question: Is there
>> something like an option to switch on diacritics which I may have missed?
>
> You can first try to undeclare the definition of \d{s} and so try
> out if the font has an combining accent:
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Minion Pro}
> \UndeclareUTFcomposite{x1E63}{\d}{s} %first try
>
> \begin{document}
>
> Āāīūś  % works as expected.
> ṣṇṭḍṃḥ % just crossed out boxes.
>
> \d{s} %Does it work?
>
> \end{document}
>
> But normally a font that doesn't have ṣ hasn't the dot accent
> either, so you will probably see an "s with a crossed box".
>
> Then you could define a default definition like the one OT1-encoding
> uses:
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Minion Pro}
>
> \makeatletter
> \DeclareTextCommand{\d}{\UTFencname}[1]
>    {\hmode at bgroup
> \o at lign{\relax#1\crcr\hidewidth\ltx at sh@ft{-1ex}.\hidewidth}\egroup}
> \catcode`\ṣ=\active
> \defṣ{\d{s}}
> \makeatother
>
> \begin{document}
>
> Āāīūś  % works as expected.
> ṣṇṭḍṃḥ % just crossed out boxes.
>
> \d{s}
>
> \end{document}
>
>
> It will look ok, but won't copy and paste correctly.
>
> --
> Ulrike Fischer
> http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/
>
>
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