[XeTeX] Syriac abbreviations, and issues with polyglossia, fontspec and bidi

Ross Moore ross at ics.mq.edu.au
Tue Dec 22 19:05:19 CET 2009


Hi Gareth, and Fr Michael,

On 23/12/2009, at 2:17 AM, Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote:

> Gareth Hughes wrote:
>
>> I know most syriacists working on Macs end up using Mellel as  
>> their Syriac word processor. Does anyone happen to know how that  
>> handles complex Unicode layouts?
>
> FWIW --- although I'm no Syriac scholar --- I tried your sample  
> text with the SAM (as you say) in Mellel ... and all the fonts come  
> out the same: no extension of the abbreviation marker.

Me neither, but I get what looks to be the same result with XeTeX on  
a Mac.
(see attached image)

> <Picture 1.png>


-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: texshop_image.jpeg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 52636 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/attachments/20091223/b1d4158b/attachment-0001.jpeg>
-------------- next part --------------


Gareth, can you please post images of
  a. the *correct* appearance of these characters in a word;
  b. an example of the incorrect rendering that you would
     like improved. (e.g. from XeTeX, on ... )

Without this, there are very few people who can possibly look
into what is the root cause of your issue.

> Of course, I don't think I have the latest version of Mellel, either.


Hope this helps,

	Ross

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ross Moore                                       ross at maths.mq.edu.au
Mathematics Department                           office: E7A-419
Macquarie University                             tel: +61 (0)2 9850 8955
Sydney, Australia  2109                          fax: +61 (0)2 9850 8114
------------------------------------------------------------------------





More information about the XeTeX mailing list