[XeTeX] FreeSerif fonts and devanagari ligatures

Mike Maxwell maxwell at umiacs.umd.edu
Tue Mar 11 04:11:27 CET 2014


On 3/10/2014 8:04 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> That being said, there are some bugs in the HarfBuzz version used in
> TeX Live 2013 release, but this should be fixed when with 2014 upgrades
> to the latest HarfBuzz (people using exiting XeTeX release with the
> latest HarfBuzz, e.g. distro packages, should be fine as well).

We'll be typesetting some Bangla (Bengali script) text in June, which afaik is 
before the TeXLive 2014 comes out.

1) Do you happen to know whether the 2013 version's bugs break Bangla?

I suppose that's an unanswerable question, since it probably depends on the 
exact font we'll be using, and maybe the 2013 version hasn't been tested with 
Bangla anyway.  So:

2) I assume this:
        http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/HarfBuzz/
    is where I should go for the latest HarfBuzz (at the moment, the 30 Jan 2014 
release),
    correct?  And that I don't need to install any revised version of anything 
else from
    TeXLive 2013.
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