On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Andy Lin <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyhow, these are the fonts I use most often if I have uncommon > diacritics in my document: > Charis SIL (derived from Charter) > Doulos SIL (matches Times New Roman) > Heuristica (derived from Utopia)
Thank you for the font tips. I have downloaded all those fonts in the past, and I have tested or retested them since seeing your post. I do like the way Charis and Heuristica look. However, I am a little surprised to note that Heuristica does not support greek_small_letter_beta (U+03B2), greek_small_letter_theta character (U+03B8), greek_small_letter_lambda (U+03BB), or greek_small_letter_chi (U+03C7). The Unicode Standard 6.0 "IPA Extensions" document identifies of these as part of the IPA character set. But I have another problem with these fonts. Some time ago I talked myself into typesetting the non-Asian portions of my language related documents using sans-serif fonts (a possible exception being mono-spaced fonts such as often used with urls). I liked and still do like the way such material looks using sans-serif. I am aware that this is not so standard however in the book publishing industry. So I also typeset IPA using sans-serif. And this limits what fonts I can use. Currently I use GnuFree Sans-Serif for IPA. I am not aware of any sans-serif variants of Charis, Doulos, or Heuristica. Dan On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Andy Lin <[email protected]> wrote: > BTW, I don't know if this was mentioned already, but if you're having > a problem with diacritic placement due to your fonts not having proper > anchor points, you can try using the SIL unicode fonts, which have > proper anchor points, as well as a large repertoire of pre-composed > glyphs (Charis SIL in particular). > > Anyhow, these are the fonts I use most often if I have uncommon > diacritics in my document: > Charis SIL (derived from Charter) > Doulos SIL (matches Times New Roman) > Heuristica (derived from Utopia) > > A lot of OpenType fonts with a "Pro" suffix will also have decent > diacritic support, but it really varies from font to font. > > You might also want to look up \XeTeXinputnormalization on this > mailing list. There was a discussion a while back about how it affects > diacritic placement (although I think it had more to do with Indic > languages rather than IPA). > > -Andy > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
