On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 09:23:54PM -0000, Guenter Milde wrote:
> On 2019-09-03, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
>
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> > On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 10:01:13PM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> >> On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 04:12:19PM +0200, Günter Milde wrote:
> >> > On 30.08.19, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> >> > > Should the following:
> >> >
> >> > > \newfontfamily\amharicfont{NotoSansEthiopic}
> >> >
> >> > > be instead:
> >> >
> >> > > \newfontfamily\amharicfont{Noto Sans Ethiopic}
> >> >
> >> > > If I make this change, then the document almost compiles for me.
> >> >
> >> > Here, it compiles with both variants, so I changed it to the spaced one.
>
> >> Thanks, this fixes those errors for me.
>
> >> > > I still have a "Missing character" error as follows:
> >> >
> >> > > There is no . in font Noto Serif Lao
> >> > > Regular/OT:script=lao;l
> >> >
> >> > > I'm confused how this test passes for both Günter and Kornel, but not
> >> > > me.
> >> > > I am using the noto fonts from the Ubuntu packages. Perhaps you two are
> >> > > using newer versions of them from upstream? Could that explain the
> >> > > differences we see?
> >> >
> >> > Maybe. Here, I have NotoSerifLao.otf version 1.03 from the package
> >> > fonts-noto-hinted (Debian/stable) Version: 20161116-1
> >> > and there is no missing character.
>
> >> Here I cannot find NotoSerifLao.otf in any package. I only find ttf
> >> files:
>
> ...
>
> Sorry the "otf" was my mistake, same here:
>
> #> locate NotoSerifLao
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/noto/NotoSerifLao-Bold.ttf
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/noto/NotoSerifLao-Regular.ttf
>
>
> > I am just making theories at this point, but perhaps the period was
> > removed in the newer version of the font, since as noted on Wikipedia:
>
> > Spaces for separating words and punctuation were traditionally not
> > used, but a space is used and functions in place of a comma or period.
>
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lao_script
>
> I got the sample text from the Lao wikipedia,
> https://lo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BA%9E%E0%BA%B2%E0%BA%AA%E0%BA%B2%E0%BA%A5%E0%BA%B2%E0%BA%A7
> where dots and commata are used. Also, removing ASCII characters from a
> font seems odd.
>
> > I tried to find a changelog for the font but could not.
>
> What is the version number of your NotoSerifLao? (I used `font-manager`
> (from Debian package "font-manager") to find out. )
>
> With `font-manager` I could also verify that the NotoSerifLao.ttf font
> installed here contains glyphs for numbers and ASCII punctuation but no
> Latin letters.The version shows as "2.000". Scott
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