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
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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