Atta boy! You tell 'em! Take THAT! SGM
> On May 22, 2015, at 4:37 PM, David M. Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 17:18:34 +0200 >> From: Zdenek Wagner <[email protected]> >> >> Hi David, >> >> as far as I understand rendering Devanagari fonts, this is handled by >> the GPOS tables. I would therefore suspect a bug in the font that >> should be reported to the font desogner. > > The fact that luaTeX renders the examples correctly would seem to rule > that out. But no, switching fonts doesn't change the basic behaviour. > > David. > >> I do not know Snaskrit, I am >> not able to judge whether the positions of Vedic accents are correct >> or not. Could you try the same sample with other Devanagari fonts and >> see what happends? >> Zdeněk Wagner >> http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ >> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz >> >> >> 2015-05-22 16:14 GMT+02:00 David M. Jones <[email protected]>: >>> I posted this to the XeTeX sourceforge tracker a couple of weeks ago, >>> and it was suggested that I also mention it here. The sourceforge >>> ticket is >>> >>> https://sourceforge.net/p/xetex/bugs/111/ >>> >>> and the zip file is >>> >>> https://sourceforge.net/p/xetex/bugs/111/attachment/xetex-indic-bug.zip >>> >>> Cheers, >>> David. >>> >>> P.S. There's actually a third class of bug that is clearly visible in >>> the table at the top of my document, but which I didn't mention >>> explicitly: XeTeX won't typeset one of the Devanagari combining >>> characters in isolation without adding a prothetic dotted circle >>> (U+25CC). >>> >>> =========================================================================== >>> >>> On a lark, I've been experimenting with typesetting Vedic Sanskrit, >>> specifically verses from the Ṛg-Veda, using the Murty Hindi font from >>> Tiro Typeworks. So far, XeTeX works beautifully, with two exceptions >>> involving the Vedic udatta and anudatta accent marks: >>> >>> a) They don't attach properly to the Devanagari digits 1 and 3, and >>> >>> b) They don't combine properly with the candrabindu, anusvara, and >>> visarga signs. >>> >>> luaTeX does render these correctly, so it doesn't appear to be a >>> problem with the font itself. >>> >>> I've included a zip file with a test file and sample output from >>> luaTeX and XeTeX. >>> >>> Is this a bug, or am I missing something obvious? >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------- >>> Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: >>> http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
