[XeTeX] stacking diacritics without mark-to-mark

2014-03-12 Thread Joshua and Amy
I'm typesetting with XeLaTeX, using fontspec, and calling a font provided to me by the publisher of a manuscript I'm working on. (Same as my previous post!) The language I work with has a letter O with circumflex and breve (U+00F4,U+0306): ô̆. However, the publisher-provided font does not use mark

Re: [XeTeX] stacking diacritics without mark-to-mark

2014-03-12 Thread maxwell
On 2014-03-12 14:47, Joshua and Amy wrote: I'm typesetting with XeLaTeX, using fontspec, and calling a font provided to me by the publisher of a manuscript I'm working on. (Same as my previous post!) The language I work with has a letter O with circumflex and breve (U+00F4,U+0306): ô̆. However,

Re: [XeTeX] stacking diacritics without mark-to-mark

2014-03-12 Thread Andrew Cunningham
Although personaly I'd consider such a solution a poor hack compared to a well designed font that is fit for purpose. Andrew On 13/03/2014 10:51 AM, "maxwell" wrote: > On 2014-03-12 14:47, Joshua and Amy wrote: > >> I'm typesetting with XeLaTeX, using fontspec, and calling a font >> provided to

Re: [XeTeX] stacking diacritics without mark-to-mark

2014-03-12 Thread Mike Maxwell
On 3/12/2014 10:19 PM, Andrew Cunningham wrote: Although personaly I'd consider such a solution a poor hack compared to a well designed font that is fit for purpose. I won't disagree. We've been told by the publisher, who original built the font (or more likely subcontracted it) that the prob

Re: [XeTeX] stacking diacritics without mark-to-mark

2014-03-13 Thread BPJ
If the problem is only one specific letter with two specific diacritics you can hack a solution by writing a (La)TeX macro which puts the letter and marks into boxes and position them by trial and error using fractions of the width/height of the boxes rather than absolute lengths. Once you have cal

Re: [XeTeX] stacking diacritics without mark-to-mark

2014-03-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:21:10PM -0400, Mike Maxwell wrote: > On 3/12/2014 10:19 PM, Andrew Cunningham wrote: > >Although personaly I'd consider such a solution a poor hack compared to a > >well > >designed font that is fit for purpose. > > I won't disagree. We've been told by the publisher, w

Re: [XeTeX] stacking diacritics without mark-to-mark

2014-03-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 07:46:58PM -0400, maxwell wrote: > On 2014-03-12 14:47, Joshua and Amy wrote: > >I'm typesetting with XeLaTeX, using fontspec, and calling a font > >provided to me by the publisher of a manuscript I'm working on. (Same > >as my previous post!) > > > >The language I work with