[XeTeX] XeTeX 0.9999.1 released

[Khaled Hosny]

The attached patch fixes the most glaring errors, the positioning is
still not quite right, and after many hours of attempting to fix it I'm
more confused than ever, I really don't know what is going on.

Regards,
Khaled

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 09:58:28PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> 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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