2011/10/2 Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) <[email protected]>: > > > Cyril Niklaus wrote: > >> Because that's how his name is spelled. You have guttural, palatal, >> retroflex and dental n in Devanāgarī, respectively ङ ṅa >> ; ञ ña; ण ṇa and न na. > > Yes, but all "n" variants are normally the same size, modulo the diacritics. > Its not so uncommon that two fonts with the same design size have different x-height. If your computer has to select one character from a different font because it does not exist in your main font, such discrepancies can be expected. At my computer ṅ appears lower. I do not know where fonconfig takes it from, probably from the John Smith's fonts.
>> The guttural na is transcribed using a superscript dot, but maybe you do >> not have it in a standard font, and your MUA used whatever font was >> available, therefore this extra height you're talking about. I'm not sure >> if I've correctly understood you, to be honest. > > Agreed : I have changed my font preferences for "Other languages" > (odd way of having to tell it which font to use for UTF-8 !), > and now all four n variants are the same height. > > Philip Taylor > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
