Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> sorry if this is obvious and I have simply overlooked something. I  
> need the character U0113 "emacron." It is not present in the font I  
> use. In mkii, I could simply write \=e, and TeX would take care of  
> building (faking) the character. When I try this in mkiv, I get an  
> error:
> 
> error: ...al/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/font-otf.lua:3329:  
> attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
> 
> I'm not complaining about this somewhat opaque error message, but I'm  
> wondering how I can fake this glyph. There was an older discussion on  
> the list which pointed me to char-utf.tex and \definecomposedutf, but  
> the file says "This feature is obsolete." So what would be the  
> canonical way to build such a character in mkiv?

use the feature:

        combine=yes

maybe you're lucky


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