[XeTeX] FreeSerif fonts and devanagari ligatures

François Patte francois.patte at mi.parisdescartes.fr
Wed Mar 12 19:46:24 CET 2014


Le 12/03/2014 00:03, Zdenek Wagner a écrit :
> 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.

OK Thanks, I got them and te 3 ligatures are now ok.

I am now facing a new problem, see another thread.


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