[XeTeX] polyglossia Greek & Hebrew not working

[François Charette]

  On 24/07/2010 19:09, David Perry wrote:
>
>
> Vafa Khalighi wrote:
>> Is not \newfontfamily\greekfont{} and \newfontfamily\hebrewfont{} missing?
>
> I did not think this was necessary, because the polyglossia manual
> (section 4) says "For instance, if the default roman font defined by
> \setromanfont does not support Greek, then one can define the font used
> to display Greek . . . "
>
> \setromanfont is now replaced by \setmainfont (fontspec manual 23.6.1)
> so it seems like things should work when I defined \setmainfont{Linux
> Libertine} which does contain both Greek and Hebrew.
>
> When I was trying to get this doc to work, I did put newfontfamily
> commands, using fonts other than Libertine, in the body of the document;
> did not work.
>
> Just now I tried putting them in the preamble, which solved most of the
> problems.  I could use either Libertine or other fonts this way.
>
> There does seem to be a problem. Somehow polyglossia is not working as
> described in section 4.  I tried just now using Times New Roman for the
> main font (without the separate greekfont and hebrewfont commands) and
> got the same old problems, so it's not an issue with Libertine (TNR
> supports Hebrew and Greek).  I also didn't realize that the
> greekfont-type commands had to go in the preamble, not the body; this
> should be spelled out in the polyglossia manual.
>
> The Attic numeral still is not working; am I doing something wrong there?

Thanks for reporting. These are clearly bugs. As I wrote above I will investigate this in 
the next hours. A bugfix release should appear in the next few days on CTAN.

FC