On 8 Apr 2010, at 11:39, Gareth Hughes wrote: > Over the last few weeks I've been noticing some strange behaviour in the > formation of ligatures in bold fonts (I don't think it's just restricted > to Libertine-Biolinum). I'm using TeX Live 2009 and have everything > up-to-date, and, somewhere in the update, thing went a little odd. > Ligatures started being replaced by white space or odd glyphs. I've > noticed this in Latin text and Malayalam, and also when updating old > XeTeX documents that displayed perfectly before, but now get all the > ligatures mangled. I wonder if anyone else has experienced this, or > knows what's up. I'll see if I can rustle up a minimal if that would help.
It sounds to me like you should try clearing your system font caches. Try a Safe Boot and see if that helps. (Also check for duplicate fonts, which can cause serious confusion.) JK -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
