On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 03:20:07PM +0000, Philipp Stephani wrote: > ----- 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.)
That is all nice and I 100% agree with, but until such support is added to XeTeX and LuaTeX, this is the best we can do (that what ConTeXt MkIV is doing, for example). Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
