If so, I will take this to the fontforge lists. Thank you.
Antonis. On 12/3/21 5:38 PM, Zdenek Wagner wrote: > Hi, > > I think that this is not a XeTeX problem but a font problem. For > instance, FreeSerif can distinguish conjuncts for Hindi from conjuncts > for Sanskrit and can use different spacing for interpunctin based on > the language. This leads me to thinking that it is a font problem. > > Zdeněk Wagner > http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml > > pá 3. 12. 2021 v 16:18 odesílatel Antonis Tsolomitis via XeTeX > <xetex@tug.org> napsal: >> >> >> In Greek (and Russian) the guillemots are different than the default. So the >> NewCM fonts >> include a lookup cv04 for the Greek and cv03 for the Russian to switch to >> the proper glyphs. >> >> I thought that if cv04 has metadata >> >> grek(dflt) >> >> and if I switch to Greek using the polyglossia command >> \textlang{greek}{\newcmgreekguillemots «»} >> >> where >> >> \newfontfamily\newcmgreekguillemots[CharacterVariant=4]{NewCM10-Book.otf} >> >> then the substitution will work. But it does not. >> >> If I add to metadata >> >> latn{dflt} >> >> then it works. But is this proper? Shouldn't it work only with grek{dlft} ? >> >> It is either my understanding wrong or polyglossia does not do the proper >> switching or xetex >> does not pickup the change of language properly. >> >> In my sources I have added latn{dflt} for both Greek and Russian to make the >> fonts work. >> So if a test is needed I have to send a custom font. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Antonis. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>
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