[XeTeX] Xenotype font and Syriac scripting

[Petr Tomasek]

On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 06:19:16PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> 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

It's broken. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=605870

Unfortunately, XeTeX and OOo are broken on Fedora 12 exactly the same way :-(

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