: Diacritics in InDesign for beginners We have Turkish text that we have to layout Universe 65 Bold. This works for most letters, but not for ğ and a few others. In Universe LT 45 Light it

@Jennifer810

It's not a ligature, it's a character, which is why turning ligatures on and off won't help.

You should have the breve character (Unicode 02D8), though. You can create the character using a standard g and the breve, then kerning the breve back over the g. This is a general solution that works for any diacritics that are missing as full characters in a given font.

Set up a GREP style that looks for the g+breve combination and applies the appropriate kerning value (actually, in this case, you assign tracking). As they say in Facebook, "It's complicated."


Set up a Character Style that applies the appropriate tracking so that the breve sits directly over the g.
In your paragraph style, set up a GREP style with this code: g(?=˘) and applies your special Character Style.


Any time you now enter the g followed by a breve, the tracking will be applied automatically.

The code uses a Positive Lookahead (the "(?=˘)" part) to find a g followed by a ˘ then applies the Character Style. Geeky stuff, but a godsend when you need it.

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