[XeTeX] Xenotype font and Syriac scripting

Petr Tomasek tomasek at etf.cuni.cz
Wed Jan 20 14:10:15 CET 2010


On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 02:29:21PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:43:29AM +0100, Petr Tomasek wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 06:19:16PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 04:12:21PM +0000, Gareth Hughes wrote:
> > > > Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > It's the same here with Linux. Pango doesn't do Syriac yet, so most
> > > > applications display unjoined glyphs.
> > > 
> > > Last time I checked, it did Syriac properly (except the abbreviation
> > > sign.)
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > >  Khaled
> > 
> > It's broken. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=605870
> 
> Ah I see, but being broken in recent version is different than "doesn't
> do Syriac yet", it feels like it never supported Syriac, which AFAIK not
> true.

AFAIK it did support Syriac for many years and in the bug description
You see working example from pango 1.24.5

> > Unfortunately, XeTeX and OOo are broken on Fedora 12 exactly the same way :-(
> 
> Since there is nothing in common between Pango and XeTeX/OOo, this feels
> bit suspicious, are you sure it isn't a font specific issue?

OK, now I discovered, that XeTeX actually works quite well
(it should have been "script=syrc" and not "script=syr").

What's the problem with OpenOffice I don't know, possibly not related
to the pango bug.

Petr

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