On 1/15/2013 12:58 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
BTW, 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
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 09:13:12AM -0500, Mike Maxwell wrote:
On 1/15/2013 12:58 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
BTW, 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
2013/1/15 Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org:
We don't usually make separate releases, so, unless you are welling to
build from git[1], the answer is yes.
There's always tlcontrib. :-)
Best
Martin
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On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.orgwrote:
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 09:13:12AM -0500, Mike Maxwell wrote:
On 1/15/2013 12:58 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
BTW, next XeTeX (thanks the
We are typesetting a grammar that has instances of 'a' + combining macron + combining acute. The
publisher requires us to use a font that does not produce stacked diacritics well (the acute accent
overwrites the macron, rather than appearing above it).
The publisher's solution in this font
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:45:18PM -0500, Mike Maxwell wrote:
My preference would be if it were possible for XeLaTeX itself to do
the conversion. Note that I do not want to create a command
(prefixed by a \ and using {}, I suppose) to do this; that would be
almost as bad as the first method.
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:45:18PM -0500, Mike Maxwell wrote:
We are typesetting a grammar that has instances of 'a' + combining
macron + combining acute. The publisher requires us to use a font
that does not produce stacked diacritics well (the acute accent
overwrites the macron, rather than
