On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 04:25:52PM -0400, Lammert, Richard wrote: > (Sorry about that empty message with one attachment--clicked the wrong > button.) > > The following example attempts to use language-specific glyphs from > Scheherazade, but does not work with Scheherazade 2.0 or 2.01. The example > *does* work with Scheherazade 1.005 (see attachments arabic-test-1.005.pdf > and arabic-test-2.01.pdf) > > However, when I use TypeTuner to produce language-specific fonts for each > of the three languages (last three lines of each test file), XeLaTeX > properly shows the correct contextual forms. Since XeLaTeX reads the glyphs > properly from the tuned fonts, it appears to me that the language > information is not being interpreted properly in the base font. I am using > XeLaTeX 0.9999.3, fontspec v. 2.3c, and bidi v14 on an iMac.
It seems that Scheherazade ≥ 1.900 is a hybrid OpenType/Graphite font, so this is the same issue as: http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2013-June/024530.html (This will be fixed in next year’s version of XeTeX, the workaround in the above link can be used in the meantime.) Regards, Khaled -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
