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lyndondrake
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January 24, 2012
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Dot below character in Garamond Premier Pro

  • January 24, 2012
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Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to get a dot below the letters H, t, and s in Garamond Premier Pro. The combining mark doesn't seem to work, and the specific glyphs don't exist. Any ideas?

Most other fonts seem to work, e.g.:

Ḥ ṭ ṣ

Kind regards,

Lyndon

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    David W. Goodrich
    David W. Goodrich
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    January 25, 2012

    Most fonts will seem to work if the software you are using is MS Word, which silently substitutes whatever font it can find on your system to display a code not available in the current font.  But in fact, fonts offering dotted letters (from the Unicode subset Latin Extended Additional) are quite uncommon; Garamond Premier Pro offers more than most, though not yours.  Fileformat.info can give you a list of fonts containing "latin small letter s with dot below" if you Google "unicode 1E63" without the quotes, though I assume Garamond Premeier Pro isn't among the fonts they check.

    David

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    lyndondrakeAuthor
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    January 25, 2012

    Thanks for the response. I actually tried it in both Mellel and InDesign, both of which highlight missing characters. What puzzles me is that I found the same problem with Minion Pro, but I'm sure I've seen books using Minion Pro which include those characters (they are typically used for Latin alphabet transcription of Hebrew and other ancient semitic languages).

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    Lyndon Drake

    David W. Goodrich
    David W. Goodrich
    Participating Frequently
    January 26, 2012

    If your project is for print only then it doesn't really matter how you get your dots.  You could, for example, use Garamond Premier Pro's "dot above" (U+02D9) and re-position it below the letters where you need it.  For an electronic publication, I might borrow the combining dot below (U+0323) from another font that does have it and then use kerning to position the dot properly.

    David

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