Am Wed, 9 Sep 2015 10:19:08 +0200 schrieb
hanne...@staff.uni-marburg.de:
> As a Sanskritist I can only use fonts if they produce a few
> diacritics, nothing fancy, just macrons
> and a few dots above or below a character. In normal LaTeX the ucs
> package takes care of that.
>
> I have recently acquired a large font collection from Adobe, which has
> all the latest
> Pro(fessional) versions of such nice fonts as Arno, Minion, Caslon
> etc. and wanted to use them with
> my XeTeX based projects. To my great surprise, none of the fonts seem
> to be able to produce
> underdotted letters.
>
> I have tried this:
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Minion Pro}
> \begin{document}
>
> Āāīūś % works as expected.
> ṣṇṭḍṃḥ % just crossed out boxes.
>
> \end{document}
>
> The first line comes out nicely, the second does not. I tried
> Openoffice, but there the second line
> is displayed by using substitute fonts. Before complaining to Adobe, I
> have one question: Is there
> something like an option to switch on diacritics which I may have missed?
You can first try to undeclare the definition of \d{s} and so try
out if the font has an combining accent:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Minion Pro}
\UndeclareUTFcomposite{x1E63}{\d}{s} %first try
\begin{document}
Āāīūś % works as expected.
ṣṇṭḍṃḥ % just crossed out boxes.
\d{s} %Does it work?
\end{document}
But normally a font that doesn't have ṣ hasn't the dot accent
either, so you will probably see an "s with a crossed box".
Then you could define a default definition like the one OT1-encoding
uses:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Minion Pro}
\makeatletter
\DeclareTextCommand{\d}{\UTFencname}[1]
{\hmode@bgroup
\o@lign{\relax#1\crcr\hidewidth\ltx@sh@ft{-1ex}.\hidewidth}\egroup}
\catcode`\ṣ=\active
\defṣ{\d{s}}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
Āāīūś % works as expected.
ṣṇṭḍṃḥ % just crossed out boxes.
\d{s}
\end{document}
It will look ok, but won't copy and paste correctly.
--
Ulrike Fischer
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/
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