Re: AW: [docbook-apps] Capital latin "Q" with dot above

[maxwell <maxwell@umiacs.umd.edu>]

On 2018-06-15 00:48, Frank Steimke wrote:
> ...
> So writing down the combining character sequence is no problem at all,
> however it has to be supported by a font in the final PDF file. If the
> default font does not work: Have a look at Google Noto Fonts
> (https://www.google.com/get/noto/).

SIL's fonts are also very good at supporting standards, including the 
positioning of combining diacritics.  There's a list here:
   
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=fontdownloads
Many of these are non-Roman fonts, so not what you're looking for.  But 
the Doulos and Charis fonts have wide coverage of Latin characters (I 
want to say "complete"), and support not only combining diacritics, but 
stacked diacritics.  The SIL fonts are free (in fact the SIL font 
license has become a semi-standard for free fonts).

There are other fonts which do *not* correctly support stacked 
diacritics the last time I looked, such as Linux Biolinum, Linux 
Libertine, Nimbus Sans, Fira Mono (and maybe other Fira fonts), and 
DejaVu.  Of course if you don't have stacked diacritics (=multiple 
diacritics on a single base character), these may be adequate.

   Mike Maxwell
   University of Maryland