[XeTeX] [Fwd: Re: FreeSerif not working for me in Devanagari]

[Zdenek Wagner]

2012/9/9 Steve White <stevan.white at googlemail.com>:
> Hi Zdenek,
>
> I'm glad you like the looks of Sanskrit in FreeSerif!
>
And I like the looks of Hindi in both FreeSans and FreeSerif. As a
matter of fact, I use them regularly for Hindi texts and I made them
as default sans and serif fonts in my web browsers. My teacher of
Hindi likes them too but I will have to help her installing them, her
computer skill are not so good.

> Regarding Sanskrit in FreeSans:  You're right, it is incomplete.  I
> now remember, had started implementing Sanskrit there, but was
> interrupted.  I hope to push that effort forward in the next release.
>
> I also see one or two glitches regarding mark placement in FreeSerif.
> I'll work with you guys off-line on those.
>
> Thanks for your support!
>
> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2012/9/9 Steve White <stevan.white at googlemail.com>:
>>> I finally got Neal's examples working, too.  (The problem was, I had
>>> altered the header tex file he provided, so that it would run with my
>>> set of fonts, but had unwittingly also cut out one instance of
>>> RomDev).  The process is: obtain the RomDev.map file, compile it with
>>> 'teckit_compile -u RomDev.map', place the resulting RomDev.tec file in
>>> the same directory as the .tex files.  The xelatex the main tex file.
>>>
>>> The result is pretty to my eyes; the conjuncts are working, as near as
>>> I can tell.
>>>
>>> Concerning Zdenek's comments:
>>>
>>> The Devanagari feature lookup tables in FreeSerif are arranged so that
>>> modern forms are default, and the more extensive Sanskrit forms must
>>> be turned on by explicitly specifying Sanskrit as the text language.
>>> (It is safest always to specify the language.  Unfortunately, xelatex
>>> complains very confusingly if no tables are explicitly turned on by
>>> the specified language.)
>>>
>>> FreeSans is indeed derived from Gargi, but it has been extensively
>>> modified.  It (is intended to) have complete support for Hindi and
>>> Sanskrit, as well as Marathi.  If any conjuncts in FreeSerif are
>>> missing in FreeSans, it is a bug.
>>>
>> Hindi support is complete, I have verified it on several Hindi texts,
>> displayed all conjuncts separately and since it was released used in
>> several other Hindi texts. I have just tried to reprocess Neal's
>> sample with FreeSans and indeed ligatures are missing, kta, pta, dga
>> and others. I hope you still have the sample table with all conjuncts
>> from the Velthuis manual. This will help you to find what is missing.
>> If you make the same sample as you sent me many times during
>> development, I will review it quickly and send the feedback.
>>
>> --
>> Zdeněk Wagner
>> http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
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