Re: Arabic transliteration

[Alan Bowen <acbowen@princeton.edu>]

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.

By the way I am using Latin Modern (ec encoding).

Very best, Alan
> On Tue, 13 May 2008 15:53:17 -0600, Alan Bowen <acbowen@princeton.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Greetings!
>>
>> I am trying to typeset some transliterated Arabic and one of the
>> diacritical marks is giving me a problem. How does one put what looks
>> like a breve accent (a cup or concave arc) under an letter in  
>> ConTeXT?
>
> I used to use macros for that purpose, with the latest Latin Modern  
> fonts
> you should have every Arabic transliteration character you need,  
> including
> the arc under the <h>, ie, ḫ. In luatex you just type ḫ. Try it!
>
> Best wishes, Idris

On May 13, 2008, at 18;24,02 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Hello,
>
> First of all, it's nice if the font provides that character. Which
> fonts are you using for your document?
>
> I wanted to send you an example of how it can be done in different
> ways, but there seems to be in interesting problem with XeTeX at the
> moment, so I wasn't able to play with it.
>
> But in general:
>
> a) simply use character U+032E (combining breve below)
> It kind-of-works with LM, but not perfect (there has been some
> discussion about how to improve the behaviour of combining accents in
> LM)
>
> b) use character brevebelow from LM and use TeX to place the accent,
> see enco-ini.tex for examples
>
> Of course you can assign your own macro to either of the two options
> to access the accent more easily.
>
> Mojca
> < 
> brevebelow 
> .tex 
> > 
> < 
> brevebelow 
> .pdf 
> > 
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