[XeTeX] XeTeX & sanskrit: which font

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Wed Aug 15 12:24:57 CEST 2012


2012/8/15 Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at googlemail.com>:
> On 15/8/12 10:48, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>>
>>>  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
>
Thank you. However, now FreeSerif ceased to work. If I rely on
FreeSerif installed on my computer, it works fine.

> @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
>
>
>
>
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