----- Ursprüngliche Mail ---- > Von: Khaled Hosny <khaledho...@eglug.org> > An: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms <xetex@tug.org> > Gesendet: Montag, den 22. November 2010, 14:43:02 Uhr > Betreff: Re: [XeTeX] accent circumflex with unicode-math > > A bit simpler workaround that imitates TeX behaviour (unless someone is > going to write a similar patch for XeTeX too, of course) is to ask Asana > Math author to provide a modifier accents as well (Unicode has combining > accents and modifier accents, Cambria and XITS provide both with the > former having wider variants, Asana provides only combining ones) then > one can set unicode-math to use modifier accents for non growing ones:
Unfortunately that doesn't work in all cases: 1. There are combining accents which have no non-combining counterpart, e.g. the arrows 2. The fact that only the combining accents in Cambria Math have entries in the AccentTop table indicates that only they are intended for accents 3. It would reintroduce the lack of separation between characters and glyphs that struck TeX during the last decades and that was overcome with Unicode and OpenType I noticed that the Microsoft implementation does use stretchable accents in all instances, but that doesn't mean that TeX engines have to follow the same route. Personally I like the short accents placed above single base characters better. (Not to mention that the search for successors in both XeTeX and LuaTeX still produces very ugly results.) -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
