Although personaly I'd consider such a solution a poor hack compared to a well designed font that is fit for purpose.
Andrew On 13/03/2014 10:51 AM, "maxwell" <maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu> 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 has a letter O with circumflex and breve >> (U+00F4,U+0306): ô̆. However, the publisher-provided font does not >> use mark-to-mark positioning, so when I typeset in XeLaTeX, the >> combining breve overlays the circumflex. >> >> Back in January of 2013, there was discussion of this very issue, >> which included talk of a potentially forthcoming solution where XeTeX >> would handle this problem for us. Does anyone know whether there is >> now a straightforward way of doing this? >> > > I'm the one who started the thread a year ago, and I'm very definitely > interested in this problem. The post saying that this problem would soon > be fixed is this one: > http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2013-January/024031.html > namely > ...next XeTeX (thanks the new HarfBuzz layout engine), > will try to position the accents using their bounding boxes > if the font does not have a GPOS table, so it should produce > better results in this case (unless the font in question > does have a GPOS table). > > Regards, > Khaled > Afaict, this does not work under the TeXLive 2013 version, at least not > with this publisher's font. Am I missing s.t.? > > Mike Maxwell > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex >
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