2012/9/7 Neal Delmonico <[email protected]>: > I am happy to say that I finally got it working. Those Freefonts were > installed on my computer no less than four times (not counting texlive). > Moodle installed them as did Joomla. I had installed them from the > ports collection and apparently the system installed them, or perhaps it > was X-windows. Anyway, I found them with the X-11 fonts. When I got > them all removed XeLaTeX could no longer find FreeSerif. I don't know > why the Texlive installation could not find fonts it had installed.
It is explained in the manual in the chapter on post-install actions. > Anyway, I downloaded the most recent version of the Freefonts and placed > them in the X-11 font directory, ran all the programs so that X could > find them and voila! suddenly XeLaTeX could find them too. Sadly, I see > that FreeSerif does not handle some of the common conjuncts well. > Guttural n and g do not combine, nor do d and g, for instance. Also the Could you, please, prepare a sample documenting that bug? I do not know Sanskrit, I made tests just in Hindi where these conjuncts are not used. Steve White will certainly fix it if we write him exactly what is wrong. > Devanagari was replaced by little empty boxes in my page headings Where > I put the Sanskrit titles of the chapters along with their English > translations. Nakula and Sahadeva and even Sanskrit 2003 could all do > those things. FreeSerif is a nice looking Devanagari font, but it is > still not up to where it needs to be in order for me to use it > regularly. > Again, prepare a sample. As Steve White wrote a few months ago, he cannot fix the bugs if people do not report them. > Thanks for your help, everyone. > > Best > > Neal > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
