Re: [XeTeX] Overriding directionality and mirrored shapes

2017-09-22 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 17/09/2017 20:26, David J. Perry wrote: The OpenType spec says that when a layout engine encounters a situation where mirrored glyphs are required, it should automatically apply the or features (assuming they exist in the font). LibreOffice and TextEdit / Nisus Writer (latter Mac only) do

Re: [XeTeX] Overriding directionality and mirrored shapes

2017-09-22 Thread Javier Bezos
David, (If you wish to try this for yourself, you will need a font that includes both the Old Italic block of Unicode and the appropriate OT features. I will share the one I’m making if anybody is reall interested.) I'm currently working on the bidi support for babel, so having your font could

[XeTeX] Overriding directionality and mirrored shapes

2017-09-17 Thread David J. Perry
The OpenType spec says that when a layout engine encounters a situation where mirrored glyphs are required, it should automatically apply the or features (assuming they exist in the font). LibreOffice and TextEdit / Nisus Writer (latter Mac only) do this. See the "Simple RLO Test" screen shot