Ugly things indeed, Mojca. And even more so given my limited skills. Here is what I have for “H” with a breve accent below. \def\Hbrevebelow{H\smash{\lower1.9ex\hbox{\kern-3pt\llap{\char'010}}} \kern3pt} This only “works” in an italic environment by the way.
With apologies to the wizards on this list, Alan On May 14, 2008, at 13;17,49 , Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Alan Bowen wrote: >> Many thanks, Idris and Mojca. >> >> If all goes well, I will move to luatex this summer---that really >> does >> seem to be the way to go---and then investigate XeTeX, which I gather >> is now functioning well with luatex. For now, however, I will have to >> cobble a macro using hints that Mojca provided. > > My hint(s) only work in XeTeX and LuaTeX. > >> By the way I am using Latin Modern (ec encoding). > > With ec encoding you really need to do ugly things. You need to > compose a character by more or less manually lowering the breve accent > and take care for italic correction yourself. Not even accent > primitive can be used for it. And you cannot use the combining accent > after the character or the proper Unicode glyph (though the latter > might be possible by patching some definition in ConTeXt core), you > always need to use a macro. > > With XeTeX and LuaTeX all that comes (almost) for free. > > Mojca > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________