[XeTeX] Adobe Professional Fonts and Diacritics

[hanneder at staff.uni-marburg.de]

Just an addendum to my question.

Adobe replied quickly. They confirm that except one SansSerif font  
there are only supporting
Vietnamese underdots. The next update of Minion will include the  
Sanskrit ones, but no date can be given.

Thanks again
Jürgen


----- Nachricht von hanneder at staff.uni-marburg.de ---------
      Datum: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 16:05:01 +0200
        Von: hanneder at staff.uni-marburg.de
Antwort an: "XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion." <xetex at tug.org>
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> 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>
> Antwort an: news3 at nililand.de, "XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX)  
> discussion." <xetex at tug.org>
>    Betreff: Re: [XeTeX] Adobe Professional Fonts and Diacritics
>         An: xetex at tug.org
>
>
>> 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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Philipps-Universitaet Marburg
FG Indologie u. Tibetologie
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35032 Marburg
Germany
Tel. 0049-6421-28-24930
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