Hi Zdeněk,
I don't see anything amiss in my TL 2019 installation on Linux Mint.
(Only Murty Sanskrit shows some oddities)
However, even there XeLaTeX says:
Compiled with HarfBuzz version 1.7.6; using 1.7.6
I suspect the problem has something to do with Harfbuzz 2.3.1,
and I would very much like
Hi, all,
I have reproduced François' effect with FreeSerif, as well as
Dominik's effect with Sanskrit 2003.
I started with stock Linux Mint 19.1.
Then I installled TeXLive 2018 from the PPA of jonathonf/texlive-2018.
In the results of running xelatex on the sample, I did not see any
peculiarities
In these tests, I'm using:
FreeSerif from the SVN *before* my attempt at a "fix" (r. 3391)
Sanskrit 2003 1.05 August 22, 2004
Murty Sanskrit 001.001
I found the particular way that the font is set in the source has a big effect.
I have no idea what is "right". But one produces better results.
In
A few related points.
First, the issue with Murty Sanskrit and the l with dot below and
macron is of course a font issue.
Simply: the font is missing the glyph at U+1E39, which is exactly
LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH DOT BELOW AND MACRON
I'll try to give the developers of that font a heads-up
