From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. =?utf-8?Q?Bie=C5=84?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Help with unicode diacritics Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 18:05:55 +0100 Message-ID: <87eej72pho.fsf@mimuw.edu.pl> References: <874kk339lc.fsf@cam.ac.uk> Reply-To: jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26285"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: Skip Montanaro , Help GNU Emacs To: Stephen Eglen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 30 18:08:41 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kuexl-0006lY-P2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 30 Dec 2020 18:08:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35400 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kuexk-0001F6-Qi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 30 Dec 2020 12:08:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40162) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kuevK-0008WD-Lk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Dec 2020 12:06:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.mimuw.edu.pl ([193.0.96.6]:41327) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kuevI-0005Ip-E6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Dec 2020 12:06:10 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by duch.mimuw.edu.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34BAC60150485; Wed, 30 Dec 2020 18:06:04 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mimuw.edu.pl Original-Received: from duch.mimuw.edu.pl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mimuw.edu.pl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id zZdeQ4h3Bdnt; Wed, 30 Dec 2020 18:05:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from jsbdebian.mimuw.edu.pl (unknown [176.221.123.174]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (P-256) server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by duch.mimuw.edu.pl (Postfix) with ESMTPSA; Wed, 30 Dec 2020 18:05:56 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <874kk339lc.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (Stephen Eglen's message of "Wed, 30 Dec 2020 09:51:43 +0000") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=193.0.96.6; envelope-from=jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl; helo=mail.mimuw.edu.pl X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:126918 Archived-At: On Wed, Dec 30 2020 at 9:51 +00, Stephen Eglen wrote: > Thanks Drew, and to the others for replying. (Apologies I can't reply > to individual messages that were not CC'ed to mem, as I'm not on the > mailing list yet.) > > To answer Eli's suggestions: > > 1. I don't need a latin font, I need a unicode font for handling > mathematical expressions like x bar (for the mean of x) as I said in my > original email. > > 2. I think the juliamono font does contain glyphs for both "a" and the > "overlinecomb". I asked the font author: > https://github.com/cormullion/juliamono/issues/87 Are you on Linux? A useful tool is fc-search-codepoint: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/162305/find-the-best-font-for-rendering-a-codepoint Regards - Janusz -- , Janusz S. Bien emeryt (emeritus) https://sites.google.com/view/jsbien