[XeTeX] Xenotype font and Syriac scripting

[Khaled Hosny]

On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 04:12:21PM +0000, Gareth Hughes wrote:
> Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote:
> > Dear All:
> > 
> > Recently, through someone's generosity, we were given Xenotype fonts for
> > Syriac. They will actually script on Mac OS 10.4.11 in any app, AFAIK. I
> > tried them in TeXShop and they script just fine --- as opposed to the
> > melthofonts which will *not* script on Mac at the input level.
> 
> I'm glad you like them. I spoke with the designer, Ka'onohi Kai,
> sometime ago about them, and have tried to encourage Mac users to try them.
> 
> > Using the melthofonts before (available from bethmardutho.org ) to
> > compile via XeLaTeX was inconvenient since it was hard to read
> > unscripted while entering the text, but the output was fine. But with
> > Xenotype, the font scripts fine in TeXShop ... but *not* in the output PDF!
> 
> It's the same here with Linux. Pango doesn't do Syriac yet, so most
> applications display unjoined glyphs.

Last time I checked, it did Syriac properly (except the abbreviation
sign.)

Regards,
 Khaled


-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer
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