On Tue, 13 May 2008 16:24:02 -0600, Mojca Miklavec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wanted to send you an example of how it can be done in different > ways, but there seems to be in interesting problem with XeTeX at the > moment, so I wasn't able to play with it. > > But in general: > > a) simply use character U+032E (combining breve below) > It kind-of-works with LM, but not perfect (there has been some > discussion about how to improve the behaviour of combining accents in > LM) The big problem with macros for this sort of thing is getting the italics right -- Arabic transliteration typically uses italics in running text. The macro will have to be adjusted (or an italic parameter changed) for every font. See [EMAIL PROTECTED] on page 356 of the TeXBook. Anyway, the Unicode 1E00--FF block has most of these problematic chars, and LM has incorporated the relevant ones. For other fonts, perhaps Hans could implement a combining command that gives an italics parameter option, though that will differ for regular, bold, etc... Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
