[XeTeX] XeLaTeX not using language-specific glyphs with Scheherazade 2.x
Lorna Evans
lorna_evans at sil.org
Mon Oct 7 23:00:10 CEST 2013
I've been looking at this. We do have language support in both OpenType
and Graphite in Scheherazade. However, as I've looked at the
documentation for XeTeX I see no mention of how to choose a language in
Graphite, only in OpenType. So maybe using a language isn't supported in
XeTeX Graphite? If that's the case, then you need to turn on the
specific features required for a particular language. So, if you want to
use Sindhi features you'll have to turn on Sindhi-style Meem,
Sindhi-style Heh, and Sindhi-style Eastern digits.
AFAIK, Scheherazade 1.005 wasn't a Graphite font so I don't understand
what you were seeing there.
Lorna
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX not using language-specific glyphs with
Scheherazade 2.x
From: Lammert, Richard
To: XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion.
Date: 10/7/2013 2:36 PM
>
> Thanks, Khaled. I had wondered about this--which is why I specifically
> chose the Graphite renderer in the font selection. (According to the
> "Font Features for Scheherazade 2.000" on the SIL web site, both the
> language selection and the meem/heh shaping should work in either
> OpenType or Graphite. Rohingya is available as a language selection
> only in Graphite--but fontspec doesn't recognize the language.)
>
> Is there a reason a hybrid font wouldn't work properly if a specific
> rendering technology is chosen? (Specifically selecting the renderer
> worked great in solving my small-caps problem.)
>
> Richard
>
> On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org
> <mailto:khaledhosny at eglug.org>> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 04:25:52PM -0400, Lammert, Richard wrote:
> > (Sorry about that empty message with one attachment--clicked the
> wrong
> > button.)
> >
> > The following example attempts to use language-specific glyphs from
> > Scheherazade, but does not work with Scheherazade 2.0 or 2.01.
> The example
> > *does* work with Scheherazade 1.005 (see attachments
> arabic-test-1.005.pdf
> > and arabic-test-2.01.pdf)
> >
> > However, when I use TypeTuner to produce language-specific fonts
> for each
> > of the three languages (last three lines of each test file), XeLaTeX
> > properly shows the correct contextual forms. Since XeLaTeX reads
> the glyphs
> > properly from the tuned fonts, it appears to me that the language
> > information is not being interpreted properly in the base font.
> I am using
> > XeLaTeX 0.9999.3, fontspec v. 2.3c, and bidi v14 on an iMac.
>
> It seems that Scheherazade ? 1.900 is a hybrid OpenType/Graphite font,
> so this is the same issue as:
> http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2013-June/024530.html
>
> (This will be fixed in next year's version of XeTeX, the workaround in
> the above link can be used in the meantime.)
>
> Regards,
> Khaled
>
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