[XeTeX] FreeSerif fonts and devanagari ligatures

[Zdenek Wagner]

2014-03-11 23:36 GMT+01:00 François Patte <francois.patte at mi.parisdescartes.fr>:
> Le 11/03/2014 22:18, Zdenek Wagner a écrit :
>> 2014-03-11 17:36 GMT+01:00 François Patte <francois.patte at mi.parisdescartes.fr>:
>>> Le 11/03/2014 15:06, Zdenek Wagner a écrit :
>>>> 2014-03-11 14:44 GMT+01:00 François Patte <francois.patte at mi.parisdescartes.fr>:
>>>>> Le 11/03/2014 12:46, Zdenek Wagner a écrit :
>>>>>> 2014-03-11 1:04 GMT+01:00 Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org>:
>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:02:02PM +0100, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>>>>>>>> Harfbuzz broke the indic rules
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Just to be clear, Pango/ICU had broken and/or incomplete Indic support,
>>>>>>> some fonts worked fine because they were specifically tested against
>>>>>>> them and adapted to their limitations, but the fonts were broken in
>>>>>>> other implementations (namely the de facto standard OpenType
>>>>>>> implementation and any other that followed it).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have just built FreeFont revision 2910 from svn
>>>>>
>>>>> Where do you find them?
>>>>>
>>>> https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/
>>>
>>> Thank you. These are the fonts coming with texlive-2013.
>>>
>> Yes, byt TL 2013 contains the official release of FreeFont dated
>> 2012-05-03. This release does not work with Harfbuzz. A lot of
>> problems were fixed, the working version appeared  on subversion about
>> half year ago. Thus even a bit old revision works but definitely not
>> the official release.
>>>
>>> Can you try to compile this sample and look at ligature tr (gotra) on
>>> first line, ligature  śr on second line and ligature pr on third line.
>>>
>> Attached, all OK with a newer version of FreeFont.
>
> Why do I get this?
>
URL is on the project page, this is shown by svn info:

svn info /usr/local/zwfonts/freefont
Path: /usr/local/zwfonts/freefont
Working Copy Root Path: /usr/local/zwfonts/freefont
URL: svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/freefont/trunk/freefont
Repository Root: svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/freefont
Repository UUID: 3f5956db-6956-4f1c-a952-c5934ae6f67f
Revision: 2910
Node Kind: directory
Schedule: normal
Last Changed Author: Stevan_White
Last Changed Rev: 2910
Last Changed Date: 2014-02-05 23:32:56 +0100 (Wed, 05 Feb 2014)

You will need fontforge and run make.

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