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, the publisher-provided font does not
use mark-to-mark positioning, so when I typeset in XeLaTeX, the
combining breve overlays the circumflex.
Back in January of 2013, there was discussion of this very issue,
which included talk of a potentially forthcoming solution where XeTeX
would handle this problem for us. Does anyone know whether there is
now a straightforward way of doing this?
I'm the one who started the thread a year ago, and I'm very definitely
interested in this problem. The post saying that this problem would
soon be fixed is this one:
http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2013-January/024031.html
namely
...next XeTeX (thanks the new HarfBuzz layout engine),
will try to position the accents using their bounding boxes
if the font does not have a GPOS table, so it should produce
better results in this case (unless the font in question
does have a GPOS table).
Regards,
Khaled
Afaict, this does not work under the TeXLive 2013 version, at least not
with this publisher's font. Am I missing s.t.?
Mike Maxwell
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