[XeTeX] XeLaTeX not using language-specific glyphs with Scheherazade 2.x

[Lorna Evans]

I've been looking at this. We do have language support in both OpenType 
and Graphite in Scheherazade. However, as I've looked at the 
documentation for XeTeX I see no mention of how to choose a language in 
Graphite, only in OpenType. So maybe using a language isn't supported in 
XeTeX Graphite? If that's the case, then you need to turn on the 
specific features required for a particular language. So, if you want to 
use Sindhi features you'll have to turn on Sindhi-style Meem, 
Sindhi-style Heh, and Sindhi-style Eastern digits.

AFAIK, Scheherazade 1.005 wasn't a Graphite font so I don't understand 
what you were seeing there.
Lorna

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX not using language-specific glyphs with 
Scheherazade 2.x
From: Lammert, Richard
To: XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion.
Date: 10/7/2013 2:36 PM
>
> Thanks, Khaled. I had wondered about this--which is why I specifically 
> chose the Graphite renderer in the font selection. (According to the 
> "Font Features for Scheherazade 2.000" on the SIL web site, both the 
> language selection and the meem/heh shaping should work in either 
> OpenType or Graphite. Rohingya is available as a language selection 
> only in Graphite--but fontspec doesn't recognize the language.)
>
> Is there a reason a hybrid font wouldn't work properly if a specific 
> rendering technology is chosen? (Specifically selecting the renderer 
> worked great in solving my small-caps problem.)
>
> Richard
>
> On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org 
> <mailto:khaledhosny at eglug.org>> wrote:
>
>     On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 04:25:52PM -0400, Lammert, Richard wrote:
>     > (Sorry about that empty message with one attachment--clicked the
>     wrong
>     > button.)
>     >
>     > The following example attempts to use language-specific glyphs from
>     > Scheherazade, but does not work with Scheherazade 2.0 or 2.01.
>     The example
>     > *does* work with Scheherazade 1.005 (see attachments
>     arabic-test-1.005.pdf
>     > and arabic-test-2.01.pdf)
>     >
>     > However, when I use TypeTuner to produce language-specific fonts
>     for each
>     > of the three languages (last three lines of each test file), XeLaTeX
>     > properly shows the correct contextual forms. Since XeLaTeX reads
>     the glyphs
>     > properly from the tuned fonts, it appears to me that the language
>     > information is not being interpreted properly in the base font.
>     I am using
>     > XeLaTeX 0.9999.3, fontspec v. 2.3c, and bidi v14 on an iMac.
>
>     It seems that Scheherazade ? 1.900 is a hybrid OpenType/Graphite font,
>     so this is the same issue as:
>     http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2013-June/024530.html
>
>     (This will be fixed in next year's version of XeTeX, the workaround in
>     the above link can be used in the meantime.)
>
>     Regards,
>     Khaled
>
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