On 06.09.2015 17:27, Rik wrote:
It seems that \buildtextaccent\textacute q (or \buildtextaccent´q) moves the q to the right within the character’s bounding box. The following example (and attached resulting pdf) demonstrates this. Lines 1 and 2 show the string with and without the \buildtextaccent, and lines 4 and 6 repeat that in italic. The strings are the same width, but the q is moved right. Lines 3 and 6 show a manual kerning of the q to improve appearance.
\buildtextaccent has to take some heuristics about horizontal and vertical placement and is sometimes wrong about it. Since your case is somewhat special, I would define a macro for the que symbol and adjust the boxes manually - but then, you'll have to adapt it to italic and upright (and bold) and different font sizes. Depends on how important typographical beauty is to you - either a medium-quality solution for all cases or better quality and manual fiddling... Something like \definefontfamily [test] [serif] [ebgaramond] \setupbodyfont [test,12pt] \define\que% {\bgroup \setbox0\hbox{q}% \setbox2\hbox to \wd0{\kern0.3em\switchtobodyfont[6pt] ʒ}% \setbox4\hbox to \wd0{\kern0.1em\textacute}% \hbox to \wd0 \bgroup \hss\copy0\hss \hskip-\wd0 \raise-0.45ex\copy2 \hskip-\wd0 \raise0.1ex\copy4 \egroup \egroup\autoinsertnextspace} \starttext {\it Dicit\que mihi} \stoptext (btw, the example you sent uses Latin Modern). Thomas