[XeTeX] FreeSerif not working for me in Devanagari

[mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca]

On Fri, 7 Sep 2012, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> If you use XeTeX this way, it is sufficient if it compiles and one
> person responsible for producing the final version will fine-tune the
> line and page breaks and lock it.

I generally agree.  This kind of thing can be carried too far, though.  I
recently needed to convert a document from LaTeX to Microsoft Word format.
When I loaded the same resultant Word document on four different
computers, no two of them thought it had the same number of pages (with a
length difference of 15 pages between longest and shortest, on a roughly
400-page document), and on one, the whole thing came up in bold italics
for no clear reason.  I hope that XeTeX will always enforce better
stability than that.

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Matthew Skala
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