[XeTeX] Help with XeTeX/ConTeXT and CTL

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Tue Jun 26 21:07:44 CEST 2012


2012/6/26 Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at googlemail.com>:
> On 26/6/12 15:09, Martin Schröder wrote:
>>
>> 2012/6/26 Khaled Hosny<khaledhosny at eglug.org>:
>>>
>>> XeTeX is still using the old (and more fragile) Graphite engine,
>>> LibreOffice switched to the new (and more robust) one AKA graphite2. So
>>> the segmentation fault is likely from the Graphite engine, so you may
>>> try reporting it to SIL people (but sadly, that won't help you
>>> immediately).
>>
>>
>> JK has long left SIL, so I doubt that SIL can help you there. :-)
>
>
> OTOH, the people who wrote Graphite are still there, and if the graphite
> engine is crashing, they may be able to help pinpoint the problem and
> suggest a fix that could be applied to the library xetex is using, and/or a
> way to work around the problem in your font.
>
> Do *any* graphite fonts work in the current TL xetex builds? They certainly
> used to, but it's not something I've tried any time recently; maybe the
> integration has been broken somehow.
>
I have tried Annapurna SIL. There are serious bugs but I had no time
to write a bug report. However, it works in LibreOffice (if I remember
my tests well).

> JK
>
>
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