Am Mon, 24 Apr 2017 16:34:21 +0100 schrieb Jonathan Kew:
>>
>> Which brings me back to my original question: will xetex as distributed
>> in TeXLive 2017 include this harfbuzz update? Or is it too late for that?
>
> As of today, the updated harfbuzz is now in the TL source tree. And
> final
On 24/04/2017 16:21, maxwell wrote:
On 2017-04-24 11:15, Jonathan Kew wrote:
On 24/04/2017 15:36, Bobby de Vos wrote:
The xetex binary as installed by the Tex Live installer in /usr/local
does not seem to load those two libraries.
Right; the TL-distributed binaries avoid dynamic linking as
On 2017-04-24 11:15, Jonathan Kew wrote:
On 24/04/2017 15:36, Bobby de Vos wrote:
The xetex binary as installed by the Tex Live installer in /usr/local
does not seem to load those two libraries.
Right; the TL-distributed binaries avoid dynamic linking as far as
possible, in order to maximize
On 2017-04-22 01:36, Jonathan Kew wrote:
> So pulling a harfbuzz update into texlive/xetex and rebuilding would
> indeed be beneficial.
Am I correct that I could avoid rebuilding xetex on my Ubuntu Linux
system? The binary /usr/bin/xetex is dynamically linked, and I have
HarfBuzz and Graphite2
On 21/04/2017 19:53, maxwell wrote:
On 2017-04-21 13:46, Jonathan Kew wrote:
I believe that xetex should be unaffected by that bug, because that
was an issue with the harfbuzz interface to graphite, but xetex uses
graphite directly without going through the harfbuzz layer (provided
you load the
On 2017-04-21 13:46, Jonathan Kew wrote:
I believe that xetex should be unaffected by that bug, because that
was an issue with the harfbuzz interface to graphite, but xetex uses
graphite directly without going through the harfbuzz layer (provided
you load the font with the /GR option, or
I believe that xetex should be unaffected by that bug, because that was
an issue with the harfbuzz interface to graphite, but xetex uses
graphite directly without going through the harfbuzz layer (provided you
load the font with the /GR option, or whatever the fontspec equivalent
of that is).
I believe (correct me if I'm wrong!) that xetex uses the HarfBuzz
engine. There was a bug in this engine that prevented a new Nastaliq
font from SIL from working properly. A fix for this bug has just been
accepted (I believe it's this one:
https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/pull/475). It's
