[XeTeX] fontspec and Nikosh font

[Zdenek Wagner]

2016-06-22 1:17 GMT+02:00 BPJ <bpj at melroch.se>:
> Den 2016-06-21 kl. 23:15, skrev Dominik Wujastyk:
>>
>> About the other version of the FreeFonts, see
>> http://cikitsa.blogspot.ca/2014/12/gnu-freefont-fonts-and-xelatex.html
>
>
> Am I remebering correctly that the FreeFont developer was somewhat annoyed
> about that build?
>
Yes, he was but it was later clarified. And the users are warned that
they install a pre-release so that anything can happen

> BTW any idea where the font gets installed to? Grepping the texlive tree is
> tricky for some reason.
>
> /bpj
>
>

Zdeněk Wagner
http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz



>>
>> Dominik
>>
>>
>> On 21 June 2016 at 03:02, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I ran an extensive test of devanagari during the TL 2016 pretest
>>> period using XeLaTeX, LuaLaTeX and ConTeXt. I cannot guarantee that my
>>> test covers everything but I have not found any error. The only
>>> problem is that the released version of FreeFont does not work with
>>> HarfBuzz, there is another repository (I forgot it) with a not
>>> released version that works or you have to build it from the source
>>> avilable from savannah.
>>>
>>> One of my test files can be found here:
>>> http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/freefont-devanagari/
>>>
>>> Zdeněk Wagner
>>> http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
>>> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
>>>
>>>
>>> 2016-06-21 10:10 GMT+02:00 Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>> On 20/6/16 23:22, maxwell wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Not sure if Will is on this mailing list, but I'm cc'ing him using his
>>>>> email address on the fontspec document.  (The doc doesn't have the
>>>>> co-author's email, Khaled Hosny, but I think I've seen him here.)
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2016-06-20 17:55, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My guess is that this might be a bug in the TL'16 version of fontspec,
>>>>>> which looks like it is intended to support both the "new Indic spec"
>>>>>> OpenType tags such as 'dev2', 'bng2', etc, as well as the "old Indic"
>>>>>> versions 'deva', 'beng', etc, with preference being given to the v.2
>>>>>> tags. Perhaps that feature is broken?
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> One way to check what's wrong would be to search for the
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    \newfontscript{Devanagari}{dev2,deva}
>>>>>>
>>>>>> declaration around line 2247 in fontspec-xetex.sty, and remove "dev2,"
>>>>>> from it so that it only looks for the old-style 'deva' tag. If that
>>>>>> makes Gargi work without complaint (using [Script=Devanagari] as
>>>>>> before), then you've identified a bug in fontspec and should report it
>>>>>> to Will.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I confirm that omitting 'dev2,' from that declaration causes fontspec
>>>>> not to emit a warning when I do
>>>>>      \newfontfamily\sanskritfont[Script=Devanagari]{gargi}
>>>>> and similarly for the Nikosh font, fontspec gives a warning when I do
>>>>>      \newfontfamily\bengalifont[Script=Bengali]{Nikosh}
>>>>> unless I change
>>>>>      \newfontscript{Bengali}{bng2,beng}
>>>>> to
>>>>>      \newfontscript{Bengali}{beng}
>>>>> in fontspec-xetex.sty.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the pointer, Jonathan!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The other question I have is whether this is a "harmless" (if alarming)
>>>> warning, meaning that fontspec warns when it fails to find the v.2 tag,
>>>
>>> but
>>>>
>>>> then proceeds to use the old tag and the text is shaped correctly. Or
>>>
>>> does
>>>>
>>>> it mean that fontspec is failing to use the second tag, so that the
>>>
>>> proper
>>>>
>>>> Indic shaping does not get applied?
>>>>
>>>> It should be easy to test this with a word like हिन्दी, using the Gargi
>>>
>>> font
>>>>
>>>> with [Script=Devanagari]. Does the short-i matra ि appear to the left of
>>>
>>> the
>>>>
>>>> ह, or after it? If it appears to the left (despite the fontspec
>>>> warning),
>>>> then it's correctly falling back to 'deva' when 'dev2' is not found.
>>>>
>>>> JK
>>>>
>>>>
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