2016-06-22 1:17 GMT+02:00 BPJ <b...@melroch.se>: > Den 2016-06-21 kl. 23:15, skrev Dominik Wujastyk: >> >> About the other version of the FreeFonts, see >> http://cikitsa.blogspot.ca/2014/12/gnu-freefont-fonts-and-xelatex.html > > > Am I remebering correctly that the FreeFont developer was somewhat annoyed > about that build? > Yes, he was but it was later clarified. And the users are warned that they install a pre-release so that anything can happen
> BTW any idea where the font gets installed to? Grepping the texlive tree is > tricky for some reason. > > /bpj > > Zdeněk Wagner http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz >> >> Dominik >> >> >> On 21 June 2016 at 03:02, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wag...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I ran an extensive test of devanagari during the TL 2016 pretest >>> period using XeLaTeX, LuaLaTeX and ConTeXt. I cannot guarantee that my >>> test covers everything but I have not found any error. The only >>> problem is that the released version of FreeFont does not work with >>> HarfBuzz, there is another repository (I forgot it) with a not >>> released version that works or you have to build it from the source >>> avilable from savannah. >>> >>> One of my test files can be found here: >>> http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/freefont-devanagari/ >>> >>> Zdeněk Wagner >>> http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml >>> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz >>> >>> >>> 2016-06-21 10:10 GMT+02:00 Jonathan Kew <jfkth...@gmail.com>: >>>> >>>> On 20/6/16 23:22, maxwell wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Not sure if Will is on this mailing list, but I'm cc'ing him using his >>>>> email address on the fontspec document. (The doc doesn't have the >>>>> co-author's email, Khaled Hosny, but I think I've seen him here.) >>>>> >>>>> On 2016-06-20 17:55, Jonathan Kew wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> My guess is that this might be a bug in the TL'16 version of fontspec, >>>>>> which looks like it is intended to support both the "new Indic spec" >>>>>> OpenType tags such as 'dev2', 'bng2', etc, as well as the "old Indic" >>>>>> versions 'deva', 'beng', etc, with preference being given to the v.2 >>>>>> tags. Perhaps that feature is broken? >>>>>> ... >>>>>> >>>>>> One way to check what's wrong would be to search for the >>>>>> >>>>>> \newfontscript{Devanagari}{dev2,deva} >>>>>> >>>>>> declaration around line 2247 in fontspec-xetex.sty, and remove "dev2," >>>>>> from it so that it only looks for the old-style 'deva' tag. If that >>>>>> makes Gargi work without complaint (using [Script=Devanagari] as >>>>>> before), then you've identified a bug in fontspec and should report it >>>>>> to Will. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I confirm that omitting 'dev2,' from that declaration causes fontspec >>>>> not to emit a warning when I do >>>>> \newfontfamily\sanskritfont[Script=Devanagari]{gargi} >>>>> and similarly for the Nikosh font, fontspec gives a warning when I do >>>>> \newfontfamily\bengalifont[Script=Bengali]{Nikosh} >>>>> unless I change >>>>> \newfontscript{Bengali}{bng2,beng} >>>>> to >>>>> \newfontscript{Bengali}{beng} >>>>> in fontspec-xetex.sty. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for the pointer, Jonathan! >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> The other question I have is whether this is a "harmless" (if alarming) >>>> warning, meaning that fontspec warns when it fails to find the v.2 tag, >>> >>> but >>>> >>>> then proceeds to use the old tag and the text is shaped correctly. Or >>> >>> does >>>> >>>> it mean that fontspec is failing to use the second tag, so that the >>> >>> proper >>>> >>>> Indic shaping does not get applied? >>>> >>>> It should be easy to test this with a word like हिन्दी, using the Gargi >>> >>> font >>>> >>>> with [Script=Devanagari]. Does the short-i matra ि appear to the left of >>> >>> the >>>> >>>> ह, or after it? If it appears to the left (despite the fontspec >>>> warning), >>>> then it's correctly falling back to 'deva' when 'dev2' is not found. >>>> >>>> JK >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -------------------------------------------------- >>>> 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 >> > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex