Hello
Hmm. Would it work if in the \overstrike argument you put in a ghost
consonant by enclosing it in \phantom{} - so it is present as far as TeX is
concerned but not actually output visibly?
But alas, I have no experience of handling these exotic fonts.
Best
John *🇪🇺 * Слава Україні!
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On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 at 09:40, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm afraid not or at least not easily. The matras are present in the
> font without the dotted circle but the circle is present in the font
> as a glyph which is inserted by the shaping engine if matra is used
> without the consonant. Thus the solution suggested by John Waś will
> not work because you will still get the dotted circle meaning that the
> consonant is missing. You must somehow force the shaping to think that
> the consonant is here or find a font where the dotted circle is
> missing. I am not a font expert thus I do not know how to do it.
>
> Zdeněk Wagner
> https://www.zdenek-wagner.eu/
>
> po 11. 3. 2024 v 10:00 odesílatel François Patte
> <francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr> napsal:
> >
> > Le 2024-03-11 00:11, Zdenek Wagner a écrit :
> > > Bonjour
> > >
> > > avagraha is an independent vowel thus it IMHO cannot be combined with
> > > a matra but it works fine with consonants, try this:
> >
> > Thank you for this answer. I would like to reproduce the sign used to
> > note a pluta in devanagari text (I attach an image in yellow color) and
> > the solution I wanted to create for this purpose would have been a good
> > solution....
> >
> > Is there a way to create this pluta sign with xelatex?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> >
> > > ne 10. 3. 2024 v 22:39 odesílatel François Patte
> > > <francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr> napsal:
> > >>
> > >> Bonjour,
> > >>
> > >> I would like to combine glyphs using xelatex : the glyphs are: U+0947
> > >> and U+093D if I write \symbol{"0947}\symbol{"093D}, I get the two
> > >> glyphs
> > >> side by side, the first one with a dotted circle below.
> > >>
> > >> What I want is the first one combined with the second one ie. the
> > >> first
> > >> one above the second one.
> > >>
> > >> How can I get this result?
> > >>
> > >> Thank you.
> > >>
> >
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