could you explain me the aim of this change? I don't know anything in
Denavagari, and I would like to add a good message in my pull request (but
maybe, it would be better you do the pull request)
Le 20 avr. 2017 à 21:51, Dominik Wujastyk a écrit :
> If there are going to be some edits to polygl
This is not related to Devanagari as a script but to a language. Sanskrit
was originally written in the Devanagari (or maybe even in Brahmi, I am not
such an expert) but since Hindu and Buddhists texts and prayers use
Snaskrit up to now and people form other parts of the Indian subcontinent
need no
Siep Kroonenberg wrote:
> I already wrote in a previous mail that I could not reproduce it
> either (on Windows).
I don't think I was explicit in my previous message as to the exact scenario
that provokes the error here, Siep :
> The dialogue box in question is the "Enter path for TEXDIR" box
I believe (correct me if I'm wrong!) that xetex uses the HarfBuzz
engine. There was a bug in this engine that prevented a new Nastaliq
font from SIL from working properly. A fix for this bug has just been
accepted (I believe it's this one:
https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/pull/475). It's n
I believe that xetex should be unaffected by that bug, because that was
an issue with the harfbuzz interface to graphite, but xetex uses
graphite directly without going through the harfbuzz layer (provided you
load the font with the /GR option, or whatever the fontspec equivalent
of that is).
On 2017-04-21 13:46, Jonathan Kew wrote:
I believe that xetex should be unaffected by that bug, because that
was an issue with the harfbuzz interface to graphite, but xetex uses
graphite directly without going through the harfbuzz layer (provided
you load the font with the /GR option, or whatever
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 04:30:47PM +0100, Philip Taylor wrote:
>
>
> Siep Kroonenberg wrote:
> > I already wrote in a previous mail that I could not reproduce it
> > either (on Windows).
> I don't think I was explicit in my previous message as to the exact scenario
> that provokes the error here
Thank you, Zdenek. It's exactly as you say.
Sanskrit is a language that is recorded in several different writing
systems. In Bengal, Sanskrit is written and printed in the Bengali
alphabet. In Karnataka, it is written and printed in the Kannada
alphabet. And so on. About fourteen writing syst
