2014-03-10 19:49 GMT+01:00 Steve White <stevan.wh...@gmail.com>: > Hi Françoise, > > I'm aware of some serious problems. The development builds of FreeFont > should resolve these. > > If you would like, I can give you access to development builds; > we would be glad to hear your input. > > What happened is this: > > Before 2012 or so, the main font rendering system in Linux was > "Pango", which emulated > the Indic rules of Windows XP and before. The 2012 release of > FreeFont was tested and > working in this system. > > But soon after, a new rendering system "Harfbuzz", which emulates the > very different > rules of Windows Vista/7, was introduced. This unfortunately broke > all the Indic ranges in > FreeFont (as well as many other fonts). > Harfbuzz broke the indic rules and the release of 2012, which is distributed even in TeX Live 2013, does not work, there is quite a lot of problems. I got several times a snapshot from Steve, I reported the problems and quite a long time ago I reported that it passes all my tests. This book was typeset using TeX Live 2013 (with Harfbuzz) and the snapshot of FreeFont:
http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz/ArunakashKaRasta/ When performing the tests I found that fontconfig priorities are not always honoured, sometimes XeTeX found the snapshot FreeFont, sometimes the FreeFont from TeX Live. As a result I was receiving unpredictable mess. After forcibly uninstalling FreeFont from TeX Live, so that I had jus one FreeFont installed, everything started to work. > We have put a lot of work into updating the fonts, but not all the > ranges are tested yet. > --and it may be a while yet, due partly to limitations on my own time. > > Cheers! > > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 7:14 PM, François Patte > <francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr> wrote: >> Bonjour, >> >> >> It seems to me that some ligatures are missing in FreeSerif fonts if I >> use the devanagari script; as far as I tested these ones are missing: >> >> tr, pr, śr >> >> >> Moreover, slanted devanagari glyphs are lacking >> >> Am I right, or I use an obsolete version of these fonts (from texlive-2013). >> >> Thank you >> -- >> François Patte >> UFR de mathématiques et informatique >> Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145 >> Université Paris Descartes >> 45, rue des Saints Pères >> F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 >> Tél. +33 (0)1 8394 5849 >> http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte >> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: >> http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex >> > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
