I am typesetting a book which uses eastern european diacritics like "ş". The font I am supposed to use is "Sabon". It appears to me this font does not have the matching glyth set.
Is there a workaround?
If this happens only once in a while I thought I could I use two glyphs that combined would be the missing one , in my case Glyph ID 84 + and GID 131.
How can I combine them or would it be better to recommend a different font altogether?
Thanks for your help!
Miriam
Combining an accent with a base character can work, or not, depending on a number of things...
Your best bet is to modify the font itself, adding the required characters. Note that a given font's EULA might actually forbid that. But I myself find that particular restriction unethical, so would encourage you to do it anyway.
There are versions of Sabon that support Eastern European diacritics:
https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/sabon-next/pro-regular/glyphs.html
https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/sabon-georgian/regular/glyphs.html
Thanks for the hint, I purchased the W1G- Version of Sabon which covers Eastern European languages. That solution is best!
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