Mike,
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...
Luckily this is a far simpler problem than the original one! Simply
define two fonts to be used:
\newfontfamily\bengalialphabetonlyfont[]{Bangla}
\newfontfamily\bengalifont[Script=Bengali]{Bangla}
Then use the first only for your script-illustration tables, and the
second as blanket font for your Bengali text.
- Mike "Pomax" Kamermans
nihongoresources.com
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