Andrew, David, Thank you for the hints about anchors classes -- with fontforge I easily added one to my font binding amacron and acutecomb and i can expand it if necessary.
Yours, Vadim. On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 4:13 AM, David J. Perry <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Vadim, > > This all depends on the font. Most font makers have not planned to support > such combinations; Junicode is one that I know of with good support for > almost any sequence you might need, and also Charis SIL. They both work on > my system in your test file. > > The font maker must put in anchors and define the positions using OpenType's > mark to base and mark to mark features. Whether an a followed by two > combining marks, or the precomposed a-macron followed by a combining acute, > gives better results will again be font-dependent (if either one works). > There's no magic way for Xe(La)TeX or any other software to position such > things automatically if they aren't built into the font. > > If you must use a font that does not support this combination, you can enter > the precomposed a-macron and then the combining acute, and kern the latter > backwards (negative kern value) and put it in a raisebox. That is a big > nuisance, of course. > > David > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vadim Radionov" > <[email protected]> > To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 7:45 PM > Subject: [XeTeX] combined accents > > > Dear all, > > Excuse me for raising similar question again. I'm trying to typeset > acute over amacron (u+0101 u+0301; \' u+0101; a u+0304 u+0301) > and the result is satisfying only with DejaVu font. > > What is the right way to type it? What should I change in other fonts > (I need the last one, actually) for correct placement? > > Thank you in advance, > > Vadim > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
