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One of font package (i.e. Adobe Garamond Pro) is not compatible with vowels encoding using xpinyin package. Can I exclude these fonts?

documentclass[margin=10pt]{standalone}

usepackage{xeCJK,xpinyin}

setmainfont{Adobe Garamond Pro} %%problematic with pinyin

begin{document}

  xpinyin*{学而不思则罔}

end{document}

Adobe Garamond does not encode ǎ (U+01CE LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CARON) and is also missing ̌ (U+030C COMBINING CARON). I can think of two solutions:

1. 
   

   Use a different font. There are plenty of nice Garamond-derived typefaces out there which do not have such spotty encoding (and are non-commercial!).

   
   
   

   documentclass[margin=10pt]{standalone}
   
   usepackage{xeCJK,xpinyin}
   
   setmainfont{EB Garamond}
   
   begin{document}
   
     xpinyin*{学而不思则罔}
   
   end{document}
   
   

   
   
   

   

   
   
   

   documentclass[margin=10pt]{standalone}
   
   usepackage{xeCJK,xpinyin}
   
   setmainfont{Cormorant Garamond}
   
   begin{document}
   
     xpinyin*{学而不思则罔}
   
   end{document}
   
   

   
   
   

   

   
   


2. 
   

   Remap ǎ (U+01CE LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CARON) to something else. Here I map it to just the regular a (U+0061 LATIN SMALL LETTER A). The mapping below is derived from the standard tex-text mapping.

   
   
   

   acaron.map

   
   
   

   LHSName "acaron"
   
   RHSName "a"
   
   pass(Unicode)
   
   ; replace acaron with a
   
   U+01CE > U+0061 ;
   
   ; ligatures from Knuth's original CMR fonts
   
   U+002D U+002D           <>  U+2013  ; -- -> en dash
   
   U+002D U+002D U+002D    <>  U+2014  ; --- -> em dash
   
   
   
   U+0027          <>  U+2019  ; ' -> right single quote
   
   U+0027 U+0027   <>  U+201D  ; '' -> right double quote
   
   U+0022           >  U+201D  ; " -> right double quote
   
   
   
   U+0060          <>  U+2018  ; ` -> left single quote
   
   U+0060 U+0060   <>  U+201C  ; `` -> left double quote
   
   
   
   U+0021 U+0060   <>  U+00A1  ; !` -> inverted exclam
   
   U+003F U+0060   <>  U+00BF  ; ?` -> inverted question
   
   

   
   
   

   The I compile the mapping using the TECkit tool.

   
   
   

   teckit_compile -u acaron.map -o acaron.tec
   
   

   
   
   

   Afterwards it can be used in XeLaTeX.

   
   
   

   documentclass[margin=10pt]{standalone}
   
   usepackage{xeCJK,xpinyin}
   
   setmainfont[Mapping=acaron]{Adobe Garamond Pro}
   
   begin{document}
   
     xpinyin*{学而不思则罔}
   
   end{document}
   
   

   
   
   

   

   
   
   

   You could also choose the mapping U+01CE > U+02C7 U+0061 ;, i.e. caron followed by a, which then renders as

   
   
   

   

   
   
   

   That's not pretty but at least preserves the meaning.