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 calculated the numbers you just wrap the macro invocation in another macro for the specific letter+marks combo. I had to do that last year, so I'll see if I can find the file when I get on that machine later today. Not terribly elegant but the results were acceptable. Den 13 mar 2014 04:28 skrev "Mike Maxwell" <maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu>:
> 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, who original built > the font (or more likely subcontracted it) that the problem is a > shortcoming of their OpenType font files, that could only be eliminated by > revising the font as a whole. I'm inclined to tell them to go for it, or > else we'll use a font that does work (Charis SIL comes to mind). That > would have the unfortunate consequence that the first book in our series > would use the publisher's font (we didn't have the stacked diacritic > problem in that book), but the rest of the books in the series would use > some other font. > > But in order to convince them to make such a change, I need to understand > better what is involved in revising a font to make mark-to-mark positioning > work. I gather that only the diacritics need the two mark-to-mark points > (top and bottom) to be defined, not every character--correct? > > Is it done at the character level, or at the glyph level? Does it need to > be done separately for each point size/ weight/ style that the font > supports? > > And do those attachment points need to be defined manually, or is there a > way to automate that process? Can this be done in a tool like FontForge, > or does one need specialized tools that only the font manufacturer would > have? > > I'm assuming that base characters already have top and bottom marks, but > that may not be a safe assumption. The problems we've seen so far have > been with stacked diacritics. > > And of course there may be a better forum than this to ask this question. > -- > Mike Maxwell > maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu > "My definition of an interesting universe is > one that has the capacity to study itself." > --Stephen Eastmond > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex >
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