Undeclaring the definition of \d{s} does not work, as you predicted,
but the other
solution works just fine. Thanks a lot, also to the other helpful suggestions!
Best
Jürgen
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Datum: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 14:25:46 +0200
Von: Ulrike Fischer <ne...@nililand.de>
Antwort an: ne...@nililand.de, "XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion."
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Betreff: Re: [XeTeX] Adobe Professional Fonts and Diacritics
An: xetex@tug.org
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.
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Ulrike Fischer
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/
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