On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Gildas Hamel wrote: > When I transfer the text to my TeX editor (TextMate), the order and > direction of consonants is correct but the order of the pair of vowels > mentioned above (pataḥ and ḥiriq) is switched: לִירוּשָׁלִַם > This is also true of my browser's rendition of the text (Safari > 7.0)inhttp://www.stepbible.org/#!__/0/passage/2/OHB/Isa%2044/VNU/__/1/passage/0 > /ESV/Isa%2044/NHV
What version of XeTeX are you using? Are the fonts involved freely available? I suspect that the contextual substitutions in the font that doesn't work may involve "ignore sub" rules. The ICU library used by XeTeX until recently was buggy and couldn't handle those rules. Recent versions of XeTeX have switched to Harfbuzz, which handles "ignore sub" rules correctly, and the very latest version of ICU (no longer used by XeTeX) also has fixed its bug. ICU was used by a lot of other software besides XeTeX, including, I think, some browsers, so that could explain the same problem appearing in TextMate and the browser. Since the bug only affects certain kinds of contextual substitution rules that not all fonts use, that could also explain why some fonts work but not others. -- Matthew Skala [email protected] People before principles. http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/
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