[XeTeX] FreeSerif fonts and devanagari ligatures

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Tue Mar 11 01:04:31 CET 2014


On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:02:02PM +0100, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> Harfbuzz broke the indic rules

Just to be clear, Pango/ICU had broken and/or incomplete Indic support,
some fonts worked fine because they were specifically tested against
them and adapted to their limitations, but the fonts were broken in
other implementations (namely the de facto standard OpenType
implementation and any other that followed it).

That being said, there are some bugs in the HarfBuzz version used in
TeX Live 2013 release, but this should be fixed when with 2014 upgrades
to the latest HarfBuzz (people using exiting XeTeX release with the
latest HarfBuzz, e.g. distro packages, should be fine as well).

Regards,
Khaled




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