[XeTeX] patach furtivum in biblical hebrew

[Carsten Ziegert]

Thanks, David, that works well with the Contextuals in SBL Hebrew.

Actually, it does not work with Cardo, xelatex says:
Package fontspec Warning: 
    OpenType feature 'Contextuals=Alternate' (+calt) not available
    for font "Cardo/ICU", 
    with script 'Hebrew',
    and language 'Default'.

So I conclude that it has to be defined in the font. On the other hand,
why does it work with Ezra SIL "out of the box"? maybe someone can
enlighten me:
There are fonts using contextuals by default, fonts which require an
option for fontspec and fonts which do not use contextuals at all. Is
this right?

Thanks,
Carsten

Am Dienstag, den 14.09.2010, 14:39 +1000 schrieb David Purton:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 06:40:23PM +0100, Carsten Ziegert wrote:
> > can anybody tell me how to implement a patach furtivum? I copied a short
> > passage from a Bible software supporting unicode but the "furtivum
> > feature" got lost. The last patach is supposed to be shifted between
> > chet and yod. I found no information about typing it in the
> > documentation of my keyboard driver (Ezra SIL Unicode for SCIM/KMFL,
> > Ubuntu Karmic).
> 
> You can do this with SBL Hebrew, but you need to tell fontspec to use
> contextual alternatives.
> 
> Try
>     
> \newfontfamily\sbl[Script=Hebrew,Contextuals=Alternate]{SBL Hebrew}
> 
> Then the furtive patach should "just work".
> 
> 
> cheers,
> 
> dc
> 
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