Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
> 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...
ah, you mean that the automatic combiner should adapt to italic/slant
... i need to look into it
bold is no problem
Hans
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