Diacritics in Pages

Question

Good evening,
I'm writing some articles on linguistics in Page and it seems I've found a displaying mistake in fonts with diacritic symbols.
The problem is with the font Times New Roman, Arial. With Helvetica it's okay. Specifically the diacritic symbol below the letter displays wrong, there is a problem with horizontal space, the diacritic symbols is situated righter then the letter. You can easily check it by yourself, just type the word "u̯erdh", the diacritic symbol will be situated not below the letter "u".
Also an example seen in my screenshot:
TextEdit displays it correctly:
Has anybody got a solution?

Answer 1

>Neither Times Phonetic nor Times Phonetic IPA will substitute for Times/ That's pure nonsense. They are discrete Pi fonts, designed to work with the regular fonts. I have them installed on my machine and they behave quite nicely.
You misunderstand the meaning: Adobe Type 1 functions by character substitution, that is, for any graphic character that cannot be drawn by direct depiction onto legacy character sets such as Apple Roman, the glyph is drawn by substituting a character in Apple Roman. This is the case for monotonic Greek and mathematics in the Adobe Type 1 Symbol font in the original LaserWriter in 1985, in Adobe Sonata for music, in Adobe Carta for map-maping, in Adobe IPA and more. After 1990, this was extended to Adobe 'Expert' fonts that drew presentation forms for conventional English composition in the same way.
The Adobe IPA font has an O icon for OpenType. The OpenType icon is shown for any font program housed in the SFNT Spline Font file format of TrueType 1 and higher if that SFNT has the DSIG Digital Signature table. The font program itself may be CFF Compact Font File for PostScript (without Multiple Master) or TrueType (without Variations). The caveat is that the O for OpenType icon says nothing about whether the font file in fact draws using character substitution (all of the Adobe Type Library up to and beyond 2007 does so).
With regard to dynamic positioning of diacritics, Apple's approach starting in OS X 10.2 has been to do so without adding tables to the font file since if the dynamic position is arbitary and the numerosity of the permutations is not countable, a table-based approach is not mathematically meaninful. If, on the other hand, one wants dynamic diacritics for a bounded and countable set of permutations, then one can develop a LUT LookUp Table for it which is what the OpenType approach does.
Best wishes,
Henrik