[XeTeX] XeTeX & sanskrit: which font

[Steve White]

Hi Zdenek,

All the tests we were doing on the FreeSerif Devanagari  were in the
stock Ubuntu distro version of Firefox.
No special settings were made.

Have you sorted this out?

I seem to remember some bugs having to do with web fonts... I would
have to dig through my notes.
Something like... some browsers turn off some features when fonts are
included over the Web (this is a very hazy memory).

Cheers

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/8/15 Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at googlemail.com>:
>> On 15/8/12 12:09, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not sure why the language-specific behavior in FreeSerif isn't
>>> working in Firefox; I thought that was supported, but it appears to be
>>> broken. Will try to investigate...
>>>
>>
>> Oh, of course... it only works if you tell Firefox to use the harfbuzz
>> back-end for Indic shaping (which is still somewhat experimental). By
>> setting gfx.font_rendering.harfbuzz.scripts to -1 in about:config, it works
>> as expected, at least in current test builds (Nightly / Aurora) -- I'm not
>> sure if this is fully supported in the final release version yet.
>>
> Maybe it is not available for CentOS 5 and I cannot afford to upgrade
> this computer now.
>
>> JK
>>
>>
>>
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