[XeTeX] FreeSerif fonts and devanagari ligatures

[François Patte]

Le 11/03/2014 22:18, Zdenek Wagner a écrit :
> 2014-03-11 17:36 GMT+01:00 François Patte <francois.patte at mi.parisdescartes.fr>:
>> Le 11/03/2014 15:06, Zdenek Wagner a écrit :
>>> 2014-03-11 14:44 GMT+01:00 François Patte <francois.patte at mi.parisdescartes.fr>:
>>>> Le 11/03/2014 12:46, Zdenek Wagner a écrit :
>>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> Where do you find them?
>>>>
>>> https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/
>>
>> Thank you. These are the fonts coming with texlive-2013.
>>
> Yes, byt TL 2013 contains the official release of FreeFont dated
> 2012-05-03. This release does not work with Harfbuzz. A lot of
> problems were fixed, the working version appeared  on subversion about
> half year ago. Thus even a bit old revision works but definitely not
> the official release.
>>
>> Can you try to compile this sample and look at ligature tr (gotra) on
>> first line, ligature  śr on second line and ligature pr on third line.
>>
> Attached, all OK with a newer version of FreeFont.

Why do I get this?

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