[XeTeX] XeTeX & sanskrit: which font

[Jonathan Kew]

On 15/8/12 10:48, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
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>
> Zdenek Wagner wrote:
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>>  You can see demonstration on my page:
>>
>> http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/freefont-devanagari/
>
> What /should/ be seen here, Zdeněk ?  As a non-Indologist, I may
> be missing something obvious (indeed, I probably am !), but I cannot
> see the difference in the two samples on my screen :
>
>> compare Sanskrit: शक्ति to Hindi: शक्ति (if everything works, you should
>> see the difference).
>
> Philip Taylor
>

The CSS for that page is broken, and hence the fonts that are supposed 
to be used do not actually load, at least in Firefox. (It doesn't look 
like Chrome loads them either, though I only tested very briefly.)

Specifically, the CSS includes rules such as

@font-face {
   font-family: FreeSerif;
   src: url('FreeSerif.eot');
   src: url('FreeSerif.woff') format ('woff'),
   url('FreeSerif.ttf') format ('truetype');
   font-weight: normal;
   font-style: normal;
}

Note the space between "format" and "(". This is invalid; the spec at 
http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-fonts/#descdef-src does not allow for 
whitespace here, and therefore this src descriptor is discarded, leaving 
only the .eot one - which is not a supported format.

(The Web Console available via the Firefox "Tools / Web Developer" 
submenu helpfully reports these CSS errors.)

JK