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 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.?
It is a heuristic and thus can fail for many reason, and I personally did not test it with stacked marks. Regards, Khaled -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
