Re: [XeTeX] misplaced combining diacritical marks 2

2010-09-03 Thread Alexander Schultheiß
I'm replying to my own post to notify everyone who tried to help me, that I (a) as Khaled pointed out to me in the fontforge mailinglist, that the order of the lookup tables has to be taken into account; and (b) that it, however, worked in XeTeX but not in XeLaTeX. I don't know why but at this poin

Re: [XeTeX] misplaced combining diacritical marks 2

2010-09-02 Thread Alexander Schultheiß
Hello Peter, > Something odd is going on here, but I don't think it has to do with anchor > marks. Junicode actually has a precomposed character m + macron + acute + > dot below. It's not a Unicode character, but rather is unencoded. (I can't > remember why it's there: maybe a user asked for it at

Re: [XeTeX] misplaced combining diacritical marks 2

2010-09-02 Thread Alexander Schultheiß
Hello Jonathan, As for this morning I wasn't able to connect to sil.org (ping gives Destination Host Unreachable) to download the font you suggested but I will definitely do that today. > I have not attempted to follow this thread closely, but I will just comment > that xetex DOES normally use O

Re: [XeTeX] misplaced combining diacritical marks 2

2010-09-01 Thread Peter Baker
On 9/1/10 2:03 PM, Alexander Schultheiß wrote: Hey David, This is just not true. The example I sent you works correctly on my machine; I deliberately included y-macron-acute which does not exist in precomposed form in Unicode. I don't think they work correctly, in the sense that they are pos

Re: [XeTeX] misplaced combining diacritical marks 2

2010-09-01 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 1 Sep 2010, at 20:32, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 08:03:03PM +0200, Alexander Schultheiß wrote: >> Hey David, >> >>> This is just not true. The example I sent you works correctly on my >>> machine; I deliberately included y-macron-acute which does not exist in >>> precompose

Re: [XeTeX] misplaced combining diacritical marks 2

2010-09-01 Thread Alexander Schultheiß
Hello Khaled > I'm not sure whether this is done by XeTeX or by xunicode, XeTeX should > not be doing any normalisation by default, but you can try: > >  \XeTeXinputnormalization=0 > > and see if it makes any difference (it is supposedly the default). No, it didn't change anything, so I guess it'

Re: [XeTeX] misplaced combining diacritical marks 2

2010-09-01 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 08:03:03PM +0200, Alexander Schultheiß wrote: > Hey David, > > > This is just not true.  The example I sent you works correctly on my > > machine; I deliberately included y-macron-acute which does not exist in > > precomposed form in Unicode. > > I don't think they work co

Re: [XeTeX] misplaced combining diacritical marks 2

2010-09-01 Thread Alexander Schultheiß
Hey David, > This is just not true.  The example I sent you works correctly on my > machine; I deliberately included y-macron-acute which does not exist in > precomposed form in Unicode. I don't think they work correctly, in the sense that they are positioned according to the anchor points. I've

Re: [XeTeX] misplaced combining diacritical marks 2

2010-09-01 Thread David J. Perry
Alexander, If there is no pre-composed glyph xelatex _never_ assembles the glyph correctly. This is just not true. The example I sent you works correctly on my machine; I deliberately included y-macron-acute which does not exist in precomposed form in Unicode. I need to run to work right

[XeTeX] misplaced combining diacritical marks 2

2010-09-01 Thread Alexander Schultheiß
Hey, I'm starting this second thread because I'm unable to figure out how to reply to a single message within a digest :(. I turned digest mode off by now but decided to open a second thread in order to reply to everybody in one mail. Thanks for all the help. @ Ross Moore > Please show the compl