[XeTeX] Old Persian (Getting slightly off topic \ldots)

[Jonathan Kew]

On 29 Aug 2004, at 6:47 pm, Robert Voogdgeert wrote:

> Specifically interesting is the fact that the Hebrew contains the 
> cantilation marks too! Up-till now only Lucida contained cantilation 
> marks next too vowel signs. I will certainly try the font and see 
> whether the kerning problems that Lucida gave me, are absent in this 
> font.

Continuing off the Old Persian topic..... I think you should be able to 
get Hebrew with vowels and cantillation marks using the Ezra SIL font:

	http://scripts.sil.org/ezrasil_home

Note that this is NOT the older "SIL Ezra" Hebrew font, which was not 
Unicode-encoded; "Ezra SIL" is an OpenType Unicode font, and should be 
usable in XeTeX if you load it as a Hebrew OpenType font:

	\font\ezra="Ezra SIL:script=hebr" at 14pt .......

(Without the "script=hebr" specification, I'm not sure if the right 
OpenType features will be applied.)

JK