[XeTeX] [Fwd: Re: FreeSerif not working for me in Devanagari]

[Steve White]

Hi Zdenek,

I'm glad you like the looks of Sanskrit in FreeSerif!

Regarding Sanskrit in FreeSans:  You're right, it is incomplete.  I
now remember, had started implementing Sanskrit there, but was
interrupted.  I hope to push that effort forward in the next release.

I also see one or two glitches regarding mark placement in FreeSerif.
I'll work with you guys off-line on those.

Thanks for your support!

On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/9/9 Steve White <stevan.white at googlemail.com>:
>> I finally got Neal's examples working, too.  (The problem was, I had
>> altered the header tex file he provided, so that it would run with my
>> set of fonts, but had unwittingly also cut out one instance of
>> RomDev).  The process is: obtain the RomDev.map file, compile it with
>> 'teckit_compile -u RomDev.map', place the resulting RomDev.tec file in
>> the same directory as the .tex files.  The xelatex the main tex file.
>>
>> The result is pretty to my eyes; the conjuncts are working, as near as
>> I can tell.
>>
>> Concerning Zdenek's comments:
>>
>> The Devanagari feature lookup tables in FreeSerif are arranged so that
>> modern forms are default, and the more extensive Sanskrit forms must
>> be turned on by explicitly specifying Sanskrit as the text language.
>> (It is safest always to specify the language.  Unfortunately, xelatex
>> complains very confusingly if no tables are explicitly turned on by
>> the specified language.)
>>
>> FreeSans is indeed derived from Gargi, but it has been extensively
>> modified.  It (is intended to) have complete support for Hindi and
>> Sanskrit, as well as Marathi.  If any conjuncts in FreeSerif are
>> missing in FreeSans, it is a bug.
>>
> Hindi support is complete, I have verified it on several Hindi texts,
> displayed all conjuncts separately and since it was released used in
> several other Hindi texts. I have just tried to reprocess Neal's
> sample with FreeSans and indeed ligatures are missing, kta, pta, dga
> and others. I hope you still have the sample table with all conjuncts
> from the Velthuis manual. This will help you to find what is missing.
> If you make the same sample as you sent me many times during
> development, I will review it quickly and send the feedback.
>
> --
> Zdeněk Wagner
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