Re: [XeTeX] Warning about no Hindi language in Devanagari script
Hello,
It means what the message says, there are no Sanskrit or Hindi language tags in
your font. The output is correct because you said Script=Devanagari, which is
enough. You might want to modify your preamble like this:
\setmainfont{FreeSerif}
\newfontfamily{\sk}[Script=Devanagari]{FreeSerif}
\newfontfamily{\hi}[Script=Devanagari]{FreeSerif}
Best wishes,
Yves
Le 20 janv. 2012 à 23:05, Steve White a écrit :
Hi,
What does this mean?
Package fontspec Warning:
Font Free Serif/ICU/ICU does not contain language 'Hindi' for
script 'Devanagari'
This warning occured on input line 7.
The document starts with
===
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{longtable}
\setromanfont{FreeSerif}
\newfontfamily{\sk}[Script=Devanagari,Language=Sanskrit]{FreeSerif}
\newfontfamily{\hi}[Script=Devanagari,Language=Hindi]{FreeSerif}
...
===
Both the Hindi and Sanskrit output of the file looks correct, though!
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Re: [XeTeX] Warning about no Hindi language in Devanagari script
Hi,
Thanks for the replies!
It looks to me as if we have a small bug in fontspec (or some library it calls).
To clarify: I'm presently working on the FreeSerif font. It has for a
long time had (poor) support for Devanagari; very recently, it is
better (in SVN!).
The message doesn't make sense to me. Both Sanskrit and Hindi use the
Devanagari script. All of the Unicode range for Devanagari is now
supported by the font. There are many OpenType tables relating to
Devanagari.
What exactly is fontspec looking for?
There is one table concerning Sanskrit. As Hindi is
transformation-wise simpler than Sanskrit, it uses only the default
tables. So there are no tables that specifically refer to Hindi.
But that is nothing peculiar to FreeSerif. Many fonts meant for Hindi
contain only OpenType tables tagged for Devanagari (and among those,
most also
So, I tried adding a dummy table and subtable, marked deva{HIN }.
And the warning goes away.
It would seem that it complains when trying to render Hindi, if the
font doesn't have tables specifically labelled deva{HIN }.
What is the point of this warning? Is it to inform the user that the
font can't have good support for a language, due to having no lookup
tables for it? That might be useful information. In the case of
these languages, it is indeed very poor to fail to perform certain
complex transformations.
However the current logic is wrong. For a font meant to display
Hindi, it should be enough to have tables tagged for the Devanagari
script.
Cheers!
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Peter Dyballa peter_dyba...@web.de wrote:
Am 20.1.2012 um 23:05 schrieb Steve White:
Package fontspec Warning:
Font Free Serif/ICU/ICU does not contain language 'Hindi' for
script 'Devanagari'
Trying your example with both GNU FreeSerif and with Code2000 with my XeTeX
version, 3.1415926-2.3-0.9997.5 (TeX Live 2011), it gives with fontspec.sty
2011/09/18 v2.2a and fontspec-patches.sty 2011/09/18 v2.2a and
fontspec-xetex.sty 2011/09/18 v2.2a such warnings:
*
* fontspec warning: language-not-exist
*
* Language 'Sanskrit' not available for font 'Code2000' with script
* 'Devanagari'.
* 'Default' language used instead.
*
*
* fontspec warning: language-not-exist
*
* Language 'Hindi' not available for font 'Code2000' with script
'Devanagari'.
* 'Default' language used instead.
*
This can be interpreted as if there are no language specific differences in
font shaping when using the Devanagari script. Or they are not built-in to
these fonts... In the latter case maybe some native Indian font offers the
desired script and language support.
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Re: [XeTeX] Warning about no Hindi language in Devanagari script
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 12:27:37PM +0100, Steve White wrote: What is the point of this warning? Is it to inform the user that the font can't have good support for a language, due to having no lookup tables for it? That might be useful information. In the case of these languages, it is indeed very poor to fail to perform certain complex transformations. You explicitly asked for ‘Language=Hindi’ which is translated to ‘language=HIN’ in the low level font code, and since the font does not have any lookups with that ‘language’ tag, fontspec is issuing a warning. Remove the ‘Language=Hindi’ call if you just want the default language of that script and the warning will go away. Regards, Khaled -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
Re: [XeTeX] Warning about no Hindi language in Devanagari script
Hi Khaled! Agreed, this does make the warning go away, but not my complaint. The warning still doesn't say what it should: the message reads Package fontspec Warning: Font Free Serif/ICU/ICU does not contain language 'Hindi' for script 'Devanagari' This font does in fact support the *language, and tables for the script that effectively support the lanugage. It just doesn't have specifically-tagged feature tables for that language. The message is being triggered because *features* have been requested, which aren't present. (The purpose of the fontspec command also wasn't clear to me--thanks for explaining!) If the warning rather said something like Font has no feature tables for language 'Hindi' for script 'Devanagari' it would make the source of the complaint (as well as the function of the fontspec command) cldar. Cheers! On 1/21/12, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 12:27:37PM +0100, Steve White wrote: What is the point of this warning? Is it to inform the user that the font can't have good support for a language, due to having no lookup tables for it? That might be useful information. In the case of these languages, it is indeed very poor to fail to perform certain complex transformations. You explicitly asked for ‘Language=Hindi’ which is translated to ‘language=HIN’ in the low level font code, and since the font does not have any lookups with that ‘language’ tag, fontspec is issuing a warning. Remove the ‘Language=Hindi’ call if you just want the default language of that script and the warning will go away. Regards, Khaled -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
Re: [XeTeX] Warning about no Hindi language in Devanagari script
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012, Steve White wrote: There is one table concerning Sanskrit. As Hindi is transformation-wise simpler than Sanskrit, it uses only the default tables. So there are no tables that specifically refer to Hindi. FWIW, I've noticed a similar problem with FontForge. It has trouble applying OpenType features to some code points if the language it thinks uses those code points is not mentioned specifically in the tables, never mind that there is a default entry saying the feature should apply. I noticed this with Korean, but it seems to be a general issue. -- Matthew Skala msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca People before principles. http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/ -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
[XeTeX] Warning about no Hindi language in Devanagari script
Hi,
What does this mean?
Package fontspec Warning:
Font Free Serif/ICU/ICU does not contain language 'Hindi' for
script 'Devanagari'
This warning occured on input line 7.
The document starts with
===
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{longtable}
\setromanfont{FreeSerif}
\newfontfamily{\sk}[Script=Devanagari,Language=Sanskrit]{FreeSerif}
\newfontfamily{\hi}[Script=Devanagari,Language=Hindi]{FreeSerif}
...
===
Both the Hindi and Sanskrit output of the file looks correct, though!
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