[XeTeX] FreeSerif fonts and devanagari ligatures

2014-03-10 Thread François Patte
Bonjour, It seems to me that some ligatures are missing in FreeSerif fonts if I use the devanagari script; as far as I tested these ones are missing: tr, pr, śr Moreover, slanted devanagari glyphs are lacking Am I right, or I use an obsolete version of these fonts (from texlive-2013). Thank

Re: [XeTeX] FreeSerif fonts and devanagari ligatures

2014-03-10 Thread Steve White
Hi Françoise, I'm aware of some serious problems. The development builds of FreeFont should resolve these. If you would like, I can give you access to development builds; we would be glad to hear your input. What happened is this: Before 2012 or so, the main font rendering system in Linux was

Re: [XeTeX] FreeSerif fonts and devanagari ligatures

2014-03-10 Thread Zdenek Wagner
2014-03-10 19:49 GMT+01:00 Steve White stevan.wh...@gmail.com: Hi Françoise, I'm aware of some serious problems. The development builds of FreeFont should resolve these. If you would like, I can give you access to development builds; we would be glad to hear your input. What happened is

Re: [XeTeX] FreeSerif fonts and devanagari ligatures

2014-03-10 Thread Mike Maxwell
On 3/10/2014 8:04 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: That being said, there are some bugs in the HarfBuzz version used in TeX Live 2013 release, but this should be fixed when with 2014 upgrades to the latest HarfBuzz (people using exiting XeTeX release with the latest HarfBuzz, e.g. distro packages, should