[XeTeX] patach furtivum in biblical hebrew

[Carsten Ziegert]

You are right, Efraim, it works for Ezra SIL.
many thanks to all who sent a remark!

Carsten

Am Montag, den 13.09.2010, 13:56 -0400 schrieb 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
> 
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