Re: [XeTeX] xetex crash: interaction between interchar and linebreaklocale mechanisms

2023-09-09 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Wed, 6 Sep 2023 10:40:16 -0400 schrieb Andrew Goldstone: > I believe this is the same issue as was raised on StackExchange in 2019 > https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/503498/trouble-with-stacked-consonants-burmese-script > but I couldn't find any further discussion of a fix for the cr

Re: [XeTeX] xetex crash: interaction between interchar and linebreaklocale mechanisms

2023-09-09 Thread Andrew Goldstone
Thanks--it turns out that xelatex still segfaults if I attempt to combine ucharclasses and \XeTeXinterwordspaceshaping=2 in a longer document. I do think this is a bona fide xetex bug but don't have the knowledge of the xetex source to trace it further. As for lualatex it seemed to have more troub

Re: [XeTeX] xetex crash: interaction between interchar and linebreaklocale mechanisms

2023-09-09 Thread Mike Maxwell
Back in 2018, I was trying to use LuaTeX to typeset multiple scripts. (We needed its capability to tell you where on the page bounding boxes were.) LuaTeX worked ok for some scripts, but failed for example for Tamil, where glyphs don't always appear in the same order on the page as their under

Re: [XeTeX] xetex crash: interaction between interchar and linebreaklocale mechanisms

2023-09-09 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Sat, 9 Sep 2023 15:39:51 -0400 schrieb Mike Maxwell: > I haven't tried LuaTeX in recent years, but it sounds like if you ran > Burmese through it and used the HarfBuzz shaper instead of the > default(?) shaper, it might work for Burmese. Yes that should work fine, luahbtex is the default eng

Re: [XeTeX] xetex crash: interaction between interchar and linebreaklocale mechanisms

2023-09-09 Thread Mike Maxwell
On 9/9/2023 4:20 PM, Ulrike Fischer wrote: Am Sat, 9 Sep 2023 15:39:51 -0400 schrieb Mike Maxwell: I haven't tried LuaTeX in recent years, but it sounds like if you ran Burmese through it and used the HarfBuzz shaper instead of the default(?) shaper, it might work for Burmese. Yes that should

Re: [XeTeX] xetex crash: interaction between interchar and linebreaklocale mechanisms

2023-09-09 Thread Zdenek Wagner
so 9. 9. 2023 v 23:28 odesílatel Mike Maxwell napsal: > > On 9/9/2023 4:20 PM, Ulrike Fischer wrote: > > Am Sat, 9 Sep 2023 15:39:51 -0400 schrieb Mike Maxwell: > > > >> I haven't tried LuaTeX in recent years, but it sounds like if you ran > >> Burmese through it and used the HarfBuzz shaper inste