On 2019-09-03, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 10:01:13PM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 04:12:19PM +0200, Günter Milde wrote:
>> > On 30.08.19, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
>> > > Should the following:
>> >
>> > > \newfontfamily\amharicfont{NotoSansEthiopic}
>> >
>> > > be instead:
>> >
>> > > \newfontfamily\amharicfont{Noto Sans Ethiopic}
>> >
>> > > If I make this change, then the document almost compiles for me.
>> >
>> > Here, it compiles with both variants, so I changed it to the spaced one.
>> Thanks, this fixes those errors for me.
>> > > I still have a "Missing character" error as follows:
>> >
>> > > There is no . in font Noto Serif Lao
>> > > Regular/OT:script=lao;l
>> >
>> > > I'm confused how this test passes for both Günter and Kornel, but not
>> > > me.
>> > > I am using the noto fonts from the Ubuntu packages. Perhaps you two are
>> > > using newer versions of them from upstream? Could that explain the
>> > > differences we see?
>> >
>> > Maybe. Here, I have NotoSerifLao.otf version 1.03 from the package
>> > fonts-noto-hinted (Debian/stable) Version: 20161116-1
>> > and there is no missing character.
>> Here I cannot find NotoSerifLao.otf in any package. I only find ttf
>> files:
...
Sorry the "otf" was my mistake, same here:
#> locate NotoSerifLao
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/noto/NotoSerifLao-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/noto/NotoSerifLao-Regular.ttf
> I am just making theories at this point, but perhaps the period was
> removed in the newer version of the font, since as noted on Wikipedia:
> Spaces for separating words and punctuation were traditionally not
> used, but a space is used and functions in place of a comma or period.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lao_script
I got the sample text from the Lao wikipedia,
https://lo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BA%9E%E0%BA%B2%E0%BA%AA%E0%BA%B2%E0%BA%A5%E0%BA%B2%E0%BA%A7
where dots and commata are used. Also, removing ASCII characters from a
font seems odd.
> I tried to find a changelog for the font but could not.
What is the version number of your NotoSerifLao? (I used `font-manager`
(from Debian package "font-manager") to find out. )
With `font-manager` I could also verify that the NotoSerifLao.ttf font
installed here contains glyphs for numbers and ASCII punctuation but no
Latin letters.
Günter
