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I have a problem with combining diacritics not being placed correctly. I am using Mellel 2.7.1 and OS X 10.5.8. With some fonts (Times Regular) the combining diacritics are so far to the right of the modified letter that they appear to be over the following letter. With others (Minion Pro) they just...

rpcameron: Yes, I am trying to reproduce text from an older publication, using this obsolete orthography (Wilhelm Schmidt's Anthropos alphabet, see Anthropos v. 2 (1907) if you are really curious.) As I recall, their r with the wiggle I am talking about corresponds to the usual IPA r. Without the wi...

It's a combining glyph, used in some older orthographies to indicate a trill: http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/pp267/ymeroz/x.gif combined like this: http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/pp267/ymeroz/rx.gif 1923 is the glyph number (decimal, I believe), not the Unicode point (there isn't one). I am ...

OK, I looked at things closer (using FontExplorer X).

The character I want is a glyph variant (glyph ID 1923), but I don't know what it is a variant of (must be in some OpenType table), or how to access it in Mellel.

Is Mellel expected to support non-Unicode encoded characters? Specifically, I need to use some non-standard diacritics in Charis Pro. So far I have resorted to using TextEdit.