Re: [XeTeX] stacking diacritics without mark-to-mark

2014-03-13 Thread BPJ
If the problem is only one specific letter with two specific diacritics you can hack a solution by writing a (La)TeX macro which puts the letter and marks into boxes and position them by trial and error using fractions of the width/height of the boxes rather than absolute lengths. Once you have cal

Re: [XeTeX] stacking diacritics without mark-to-mark

2014-03-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:21:10PM -0400, Mike Maxwell wrote: > On 3/12/2014 10:19 PM, Andrew Cunningham wrote: > >Although personaly I'd consider such a solution a poor hack compared to a > >well > >designed font that is fit for purpose. > > I won't disagree. We've been told by the publisher, w

Re: [XeTeX] stacking diacritics without mark-to-mark

2014-03-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 07:46:58PM -0400, maxwell wrote: > On 2014-03-12 14:47, Joshua and Amy wrote: > >I'm typesetting with XeLaTeX, using fontspec, and calling a font > >provided to me by the publisher of a manuscript I'm working on. (Same > >as my previous post!) > > > >The language I work with

[XeTeX] new font question: is this possible?

2014-03-13 Thread François Patte
Bonjour, When writing a Sanskrit text, there are (at least) two ways: roman transliteration, or devanagari. In a transliterated text, there are much more blank spaces between "words" than in a devanagari text. I would like to be able to have only one file for a text and choose either transliterat

Re: [XeTeX] new font question: is this possible?

2014-03-13 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2014-03-13 19:09 GMT+01:00 François Patte : > Bonjour, > > When writing a Sanskrit text, there are (at least) two ways: roman > transliteration, or devanagari. > > In a transliterated text, there are much more blank spaces between > "words" than in a devanagari text. I would like to be able to have

Re: [XeTeX] Type2 Charstring Parser: Subroutine nested too deeply

2014-03-13 Thread Joshua and Amy
Is there anything I can do about an xdvipdfmx bug (if that's what it is)? Some workaround? Thanks. Josh On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > I see nothing suspicious, can be an xdvipdfmx bug or a font bug not > cached by those tools. > > Regards, > Khaled > > --