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

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Sun Sep 9 19:54:36 CEST 2012


2012/9/9 François Patte <francois.patte at mi.parisdescartes.fr>:
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> Le 09/09/2012 19:04, Steve White a écrit :
>> François,
>>
>> On my standard-distribution Ubuntu system, it's 'FakeSlant' rather
>> than 'AutoFakeSlant'.
>>
>> With that change to your file, I get the attached.  Is this what you
>>  intended?
>
> No, "AutoFakeSlant" comes from the cut and paste I have made from an
> existing file. What I wanted to say is that I don't understand why
> Zdének says that some ligatures are missing: kta, pta....
>
These are missing from FreeSans. The font contains the forms used in
modern Hindi, not the Sanskrit ones.

> Difference between FakeSlant and AutoFakeSlant seems to be (this is not
> so much documented):
>
> FakeSlant the whole text is slanted
>
> AutoFakeSlant: slanted text comes with the latex commands \textit{...}
> or {\itshape ...}
>
> Curiously, if you use FakeSlant, the whole text is slanted and there are
> question marks for any text you put in \textit{....}
>
> Regards
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