[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>
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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
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