[XeTeX] FreeSerif fonts and devanagari ligatures

[Zdenek Wagner]

2014-03-11 1:04 GMT+01:00 Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org>:
> 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).
>
I have just built FreeFont revision 2910 from svn and ran my
Devanagari tests using both TL 2012 and TL 2013. I see no problems.

> 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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