[XeTeX] Syriac kashideh OFF?

[Jonathan Kew]

On 30 Mar 2009, at 17:32, Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote:

> %% code for Melthofonts = Syriac fonts
> \setclass \A {0622,0623,0625,0627}

Hmm, do you actually use these with Syriac, or are they just Arabic/ 
Persian leftovers?

>
> \setclass \R {0710,0715,0717,0718,0728,072A,072C}

I think you want to put U+0710 SYRIAC LETTER ALAPH into the class \A  
instead of \R. The reason for distinguishing \A from \R was exactly  
this: we don't want to introduce kashideh into the L-A pair.

JK