From: Alan Bowen <acbowen@princeton.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Arabic transliteration
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 18:45:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AD392CAC-42AB-42F0-9E6E-9C9FD881051F@princeton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00805141017u60354ce0y4b797d020d56a8d5@mail.gmail.com>
Ugly things indeed, Mojca. And even more so given my limited skills.
Here is what I have for “H” with a breve accent below.
\def\Hbrevebelow{H\smash{\lower1.9ex\hbox{\kern-3pt\llap{\char'010}}}
\kern3pt}
This only “works” in an italic environment by the way.
With apologies to the wizards on this list,
Alan
On May 14, 2008, at 13;17,49 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Alan Bowen wrote:
>> Many thanks, Idris and Mojca.
>>
>> If all goes well, I will move to luatex this summer---that really
>> does
>> seem to be the way to go---and then investigate XeTeX, which I gather
>> is now functioning well with luatex. For now, however, I will have to
>> cobble a macro using hints that Mojca provided.
>
> My hint(s) only work in XeTeX and LuaTeX.
>
>> By the way I am using Latin Modern (ec encoding).
>
> With ec encoding you really need to do ugly things. You need to
> compose a character by more or less manually lowering the breve accent
> and take care for italic correction yourself. Not even accent
> primitive can be used for it. And you cannot use the combining accent
> after the character or the proper Unicode glyph (though the latter
> might be possible by patching some definition in ConTeXt core), you
> always need to use a macro.
>
> With XeTeX and LuaTeX all that comes (almost) for free.
>
> Mojca
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-13 21:53 Alan Bowen
2008-05-13 22:21 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-05-13 22:24 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-05-13 23:00 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-05-14 7:30 ` Hans Hagen
2008-05-14 14:41 ` Alan Bowen
2008-05-14 15:33 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2008-05-14 17:17 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-05-14 22:45 ` Alan Bowen [this message]
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