On 1/9/2022 11:23 AM, hanneder--- via ntg-context wrote:
2. Fonts that contain all necessary diacritics have become sparse. (This is more a lamentation, not much one can do about it, I guess).
When I started TeXing people were used to writing aṭavī as a\d{t}av{\=\i}. Not user friendly, but it worked with many fonts. With each new font regime Sanskritists had to search for new fonts, invent work-arounds etc. Even the most promising attempts (I spent a lot of time with OmegaTeX) eventually disappeared. Now we are dependent on whether an otf font has the underdot characters (ṭḍṃḥ) and the vowels (āīūṛ). Within the commercial fonts, I found only one "Brotschrift" that worked, which is Adobe Text Pro. I really like Minion, for instance, but the latest otf Version has no ṭ etc.
Thank god, we have many TeX fonts derived from older ones that still work, but many entries in the TeX Font Catalogue do not! Because minion has no bottom accent ... in a next version you can try this:
\starttext \definefontfeature[default][default][fakecombining=yes,compose=yes] \setupbodyfont[minion] [x][\char"2D9][x][\char"323] ṭḍṃḥ \stoptext there are more such accents but i have no time not to collect them (maybe we need a mechanism for missing / patching characters in lfg files like we have for math) because in the end 'generic' heuristics might fails us Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------