Re: [XeTeX] TeXworks XeTeX : Pinyin u-with-third-tone

2012-01-04 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Daniel Greenhoe wrote: Wouldn't a simple \v{u} render sufficient quality? Reinhard Kotucha wrote : I suppose that the idea was to use \v{u} in order to compose the glyph and am sure that you don't need LaTeX in order to achieve this. You are both quite correct, it almost certainly

Re: [XeTeX] TeXworks XeTeX : Pinyin u-with-third-tone

2012-01-04 Thread Daniel Greenhoe
Since you are using Antykwa fonts for the newsletter, I'm wondering whether you already considered to ask the authors to add the glyph. It would make a nice Christmas gift. However, the addition called for would really be an entire block of glyphs. Of course standard pinyin requires four tone

Re: [XeTeX] TeXworks XeTeX : Pinyin u-with-third-tone

2012-01-04 Thread Andrew Moschou
On 5 January 2012 06:47, Daniel Greenhoe dgreen...@gmail.com wrote: Since you are using Antykwa fonts for the newsletter, I'm wondering whether you already considered to ask the authors to add the glyph. It would make a nice Christmas gift. However, the addition called for would really

[XeTeX] TeXworks XeTeX : Pinyin u-with-third-tone

2012-01-03 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Dear XeTeX TeXworks users ... When typesetting this year's Christmas newsletter, I ran into real problems with the names of one of my friends, who in Pinyin requires a third-tone u (ǔ); neither in TeXworks nor in the final typeset document could I get this to appear. In TeXworks, it appeared as

Re: [XeTeX] TeXworks XeTeX : Pinyin u-with-third-tone

2012-01-03 Thread Daniel Greenhoe
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Philip TAYLOR p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk wrote: When typesetting this year's Christmas newsletter, I ran into real problems with the names of one of my friends, who in Pinyin requires a third-tone u (ǔ); neither in TeXworks nor in the final typeset document could I