On Jun 12, 2011, at 6:01 PM, Ross Moore wrote: > Hello Pander, > > On 13/06/2011, at 6:26 AM, Pander wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I have discovered a problem with ocrb10.otf the ligatures are not workig >> correctly in xelatex. ttx from fonttools reports only these common >> ligatures: ff-ffi-ffl-fi-fl. See example below for result. How to solve >> this? > > Where did you obtain your OCR fonts from? > > I just downloaded the demo from here: > http://www.barcodesoft.com/ocr_font.aspx > and the font file names are OCRB.otf , OCRBI.otf , OCRBIII.otf , > and OCRBIV.otf in OTF format. > > Given that this is meant to be a mono-spaced font, I'd not expect > to have any ligatures at all. > > Changing your code example to: > >>>> {\fontspec{OCRB}abc ff ffi ffl fl fi} >>>> \bigskip >>>> >>>> {\fontspec[Ligatures={Required,Common,Rare}]{OCRB}abc ff ffi ffl fl fi} >>>> \bigskip >>>> >>>> {\fontspec[Ligatures={NoRequired,NoCommon,NoRare}]{OCRB}abc ff ffi ffl fl >>>> fi} >>>> \bigskip > > the result is attached below. > > <texshop_image.jpeg> > On the other hand, if you get the free example from: > > http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/page/fonts#ocrb > > and look at the example document ocr.pfb then you > can see that there are many examples of fi ffi etc. > using no ligatures. > > Indeed looking at the repertoire using FontBook (on Mac OS X 10.6) > there are no fi or fl etc. ligatures. > > So it is not at all clear that what you are asking for makes > much sense, with this font. > > > But then maybe you have a version of OCRB that comes from a > completely different source? In which case, we need more details > before further testing can be done. > >> >> Regards, >> >> Pander > > > > Hope this helps, > > Ross
Howdy, I have those fonts as part of TL2011 pretest and I think thye are also in TL2010. Good Luck, Herb Schulz (herbs at wideopenwest dot com) -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
