You are right, Efraim, it works for Ezra SIL. many thanks to all who sent a remark!
Carsten Am Montag, den 13.09.2010, 13:56 -0400 schrieb Efraim Feinstein: > 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 -- Carsten Ziegert Association SIL / Chad mobile: +235 63.78.58.00 skype : carstenzi http://www.sil.org -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
