[XeTeX] does language switching works properly?

2021-12-03 Thread Antonis Tsolomitis via XeTeX
In Greek (and Russian) the guillemots are different than the default. So the NewCM fonts include a lookup cv04 for the Greek and cv03 for the Russian to switch to the proper glyphs. I thought that if cv04 has metadata grek(dflt) and if I switch to Greek using the polyglossia command \textlang{

Re: [XeTeX] does language switching works properly?

2021-12-03 Thread Zdenek Wagner
Hi, I think that this is not a XeTeX problem but a font problem. For instance, FreeSerif can distinguish conjuncts for Hindi from conjuncts for Sanskrit and can use different spacing for interpunctin based on the language. This leads me to thinking that it is a font problem. Zdeněk Wagner http://