David Perry wrote:
I just downloaded a font called bangla.ttf from
http://www.omicronlab.com/bangla-fonts.html (lots of free/open source
Bengali fonts there; not sure if this is the Bangla that you have). I
looked at the font in FontLab Studio and it does have all the Unicode
characters, and the following lines were successful:
{\fontspec{Bangla} \char"09C2 \qquad +/= \qquad \char"09C4}
OK, that allowed me to track down the problem. If I do
\newfontfamily\bengalifont[]{Bangla}
it works fine; I don't get the dashed circle. In fact the space
character doesn't even have to be inside the scope of the script.
But if I do
\newfontfamily\bengalifont[Script=Bengali]{Bangla}
I get the dashed circle. So apparently setting the script makes it pay
attention to whether there is a Bengali base character for the combining
character to combine with. But not specifying the script causes other
problems, namely the combining characters don't combine correctly with a
Bengali base character when there is one (which of course is most of the
time).
Guess I could fix my original problem without breaking the output and
without making the XML non-portable by modifying our code that tags
Bengali text during the conversion from XML to XeLaTeX...
Thanks for all the pointers!
--
Mike Maxwell
What good is a universe without somebody around to look at it?
--Robert Dicke, Princeton physicist
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