OOPS--may have got it backwards. It's been a while. Apologies...
K >>> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:56 PM, in message <4c8e65c3.2010...@fas.harvard.edu>, Efraim Feinstein <fei...@fas.harvard.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > On 09/13/2010 01:40 PM, Carsten Ziegert wrote: >> can anybody tell me how to implement a patach furtivum? I copied a short >> passage from a Bible software supporting unicode but the "furtivum >> feature" got lost. The last patach is supposed to be shifted between >> chet and yod. I found no information about typing it in the >> documentation of my keyboard driver (Ezra SIL Unicode for SCIM/KMFL, >> Ubuntu Karmic). >> > > There is no separate Unicode furtive patah character. It will shift if > the font supports it, if not, it doesn't. The same test file using Ezra > SIL instead of SBL Hebrew does show the patah shifted. > > If you put the same words into Openoffice.org, the patah displays > shifted in both SBL Hebrew and Ezra SIL, but not Ezra SIL SR (a font > that doesn't support the feature). Openoffice.org displays the correct > behavior in all cases. XeTeX is interpreting something about SBL Hebrew > differently. > > -Efraim > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
