[XeTeX] XeTeX 0.9999.1 released

[Khaled Hosny]

This looks very bad! It weren't like that last time I tested vertical
layout (which was fairly recently), I'll see what got broken.

Regards,
Khaled

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 07:52:30PM +0900, Dohyun Kim wrote:
> Attached is my tex file for test.  "Adobe Myungjo Std" used in this
> file is a font bundled with Korean version of Adobe Reader.  If you do
> not have this font, replace it with any other cjk font which has vrt2
> feature, such as Kozuka Mincho.
> 
> Best,
> 
> 
> 2013/3/28 Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org>:
> > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:29:35AM +0900, Dohyun Kim wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> "vertical" option of XeTeX 0.9999 is currently broken.  Applying
> >> attached patch seems to make it work better, though I know almost
> >> nothing about C language.
> >
> > I appreaciate if you have test files for me to try, I had hard time
> > figuring how to test this since most CJK fonts that I have give funny
> > results even with old XeTeX.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >> Still, some issue remains.  Especially vertical gpos feature, for
> >> instance +vhal option, does not work correctly.  Though vhal feature
> >> should decrease the glyph advance, current XeTeX increases it instead.
> >>  Harfbuzz, on the other hand, works correctly.  I could not figure out
> >> where this problem comes from.
> >
> > Tests for this are welcome, too.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Khaled
> >
> >
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> Dohyun Kim
> College of Law, Dongguk University
> Seoul, Republic of Korea


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