Re: [XeTeX] difficulty with ancient greek diacriticals in XeTeX with Gentium Plus

2013-07-20 Thread Richard Cobbe
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 06:56:49PM +0100, Jonathan Kew wrote: > I haven't followed this thread in detail, but has anyone suggested > (and have you tried) simply setting the option > > \XeTeXinputnormalization = 1 > > in your document? Nathan Sidoli mentioned it, but only as part of a more comple

Re: [XeTeX] difficulty with ancient greek diacriticals in XeTeX with Gentium Plus

2013-07-20 Thread Richard Cobbe
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 09:56:37AM -0400, Richard Cobbe wrote: > This may be slightly OT, since I think it's a font problem rather than a > XeTeX problem, but I'm hoping someone here may be able to give me a few > pointers. If not, please forgive the noise. > > I rec

Re: [XeTeX] difficulty with ancient greek diacriticals in XeTeX with Gentium Plus

2013-07-18 Thread Richard Cobbe
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:49:32PM +0200, Peter Dyballa wrote: > > Am 18.07.2013 um 20:53 schrieb Apostolos Syropoulos: > > > BTW, I don't think I have Gentium and I am using XeTeX, > > You certainly have the normal and basic versions! In TL '12 they were here: > /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist

[XeTeX] difficulty with ancient greek diacriticals in XeTeX with Gentium Plus

2013-07-18 Thread Richard Cobbe
This may be slightly OT, since I think it's a font problem rather than a XeTeX problem, but I'm hoping someone here may be able to give me a few pointers. If not, please forgive the noise. I recently switched from using Gentium (http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=gentium)

Re: [XeTeX] problem rendering unicode Devanagari dependent vowel signs and ligatures

2011-02-03 Thread Richard Cobbe
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 01:05:28PM +0545, Leo Brouwer wrote: > I've run Richard's sample (with devamt.ttf, the IBM version of Devanagari > MT---apparently not an exact equivalent, as it doesn't render "trya" > correctly), and it appears to me that it's not the fonts, but the lack > of* *Script=Deva

Re: [XeTeX] problem rendering unicode Devanagari dependent vowel signs and ligatures

2011-02-03 Thread Richard Cobbe
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 01:00:17PM +0100, Dominik Wujastyk wrote: > Following Richard's explorations, I found that Jaipur Unicode NFLC > (source) > also produces a visarga *without* the dotted circle. Input file below, and > output PDF and font attached. > > I

Re: [XeTeX] problem rendering unicode Devanagari dependent vowel signs and ligatures

2011-02-02 Thread Richard Cobbe
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 08:07:24PM +0100, Dominik Wujastyk wrote: > I've done some tests on Leo's first problem (see below), and I also cannot > find a way to separate, e.g., the visarga sign (similar to a Latin colon) > from the dotted-circle that is used in Unicode font charts to signify that > t