Cardo now has a very nice italic face. You'll also find y+macron in the DejaVu fonts. Oh, and if you look up the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative page, you'll find others listed, since all MUFI-compliant fonts are supposed to have that character.
Peter S. Baker University of Virginia On Nov 6, 2011, at 5:37 AM, Peter Dyballa <peter_dyba...@web.de> wrote: > > Am 06.11.2011 um 02:15 schrieb Andrew Gollan: > >> The Invalid glyph is >> actually the result of a \=V in one place, but the \=y is being printed as >> a spiral in the PDF if that is remove > > V with macron does not exist in Unicode (but U with macron does, so it looks > bad, until you invent a good macro to position the macron on the V), ȳ does > not exist in Palatino Linotype. It's xdvipdfmx which finds the invalid glyph > index (gid 1329). The Apple Font Tools suite shows only these glyphs with > "132" in Palatino Linotype: > > <map charValue="0x00EB" glyphRefID="132"/> > <map charValue="0x0132" charName="LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE IJ" > glyphRefID="275"/> > <map charValue="0x017D" charName="LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH CARON" > glyphRefID="132"/> > <map charValue="0x1EF1" charName="LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH HORN AND DOT > BELOW" glyphRefID="1320"/> > <map charValue="0x1EF4" charName="LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH DOT BELOW" > glyphRefID="1321"/> > <map charValue="0x1EF5" charName="LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DOT BELOW" > glyphRefID="1322"/> > <map charValue="0x1EF6" charName="LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH HOOK ABOVE" > glyphRefID="1323"/> > <map charValue="0x1EF7" charName="LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH HOOK ABOVE" > glyphRefID="1324"/> > <map charValue="0x1EF8" charName="LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH TILDE" > glyphRefID="1325"/> > <map charValue="0x1EF9" charName="LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH TILDE" > glyphRefID="1326"/> > <map charValue="0x20A0" charName="EURO-CURRENCY SIGN" glyphRefID="1327"/> > > So it might be better when you use Cardo (only one face) or Junicode. Both > fonts are intended to typeset antique texts, the latter family exists in TeX > Live (/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/junicode). > > -- > Greetings > > Pete > > Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. > – Allen's Law > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
