On Tue, 13 May 2008 16:24:02 -0600, Mojca Miklavec
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)
The big problem with macros for this sort of thing is getting the italics right -- Arabic transliteration typically uses italics in running text. The macro will have to be adjusted (or an italic parameter changed) for every font. See \def\sh@ft on page 356 of the TeXBook. Anyway, the Unicode 1E00--FF block has most of these problematic chars, and LM has incorporated the relevant ones. For other fonts, perhaps Hans could implement a combining command that gives an italics parameter option, though that will differ for regular, bold, etc... Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/