[XeTeX] patach furtivum in biblical hebrew

[Efraim Feinstein]

Hi,

On 09/13/2010 01:40 PM, Carsten Ziegert wrote:
> can anybody tell me how to implement a patach furtivum? I copied a short
> passage from a Bible software supporting unicode but the "furtivum
> feature" got lost. The last patach is supposed to be shifted between
> chet and yod. I found no information about typing it in the
> documentation of my keyboard driver (Ezra SIL Unicode for SCIM/KMFL,
> Ubuntu Karmic).
>    

There is no separate Unicode furtive patah character.  It will shift if 
the font supports it, if not, it doesn't.  The same test file using Ezra 
SIL instead of SBL Hebrew does show the patah shifted.

If you put the same words into Openoffice.org, the patah displays 
shifted in both SBL Hebrew and Ezra SIL, but not Ezra SIL SR (a font 
that doesn't support the feature).  Openoffice.org displays the correct 
behavior in all cases.  XeTeX is interpreting something about SBL Hebrew 
differently.

-Efraim