[XeTeX] r34804 fails to typeset a vertical Japanese, for which r34711 works fine

[Jiang Jiang]

On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Akira Kakuto <kakuto at fuk.kindai.ac.jp> wrote:
> Hi Khaled, Jiang,
>
> I found that r34804 of dvipdfmx could not create a pdf
> for a simple vertical text by using SourceHanSansJP,
> while r34711 of dvipdfmx could create a fine pdf for the
> same text.
>
> I attach a file dvipdfmx-test.tar.gz which contains
> (1) UniSourceHanSansJP-UTF16-H
> (2) UniSourceHanSansJP-UTF16-V
> (3) r34711-message.txt
> (4) r34804-message.txt
> (5) sample.dvi
> (6) sample.pdf
> (7) sample.tex
> (8) test.map
>
>
> (1),(2): CMap files written by Y. Terada
> (3)    : message by r34711 for dvipdfmx -f test.map sample
> (4)    : message by r34804 for dvipdfmx -f test.map sample
> (5)    : a dvi file made by uplatex sample
> (6)    : a pdf file created by r34711, which is fine.
> (7)    : a source file
> (8)    : a map file for the test

OK, I vaguely remembered that I added vertical support to XeTeX and
xdvipdfmx with help from JK several years ago, that might have
regressed during the XETEX code removal. I can take a look.

- Jiang