Re: [XeTeX] bug in polyglossia/sanskrit? (problem with diacritical marks)

2019-05-19 Thread Steve White
A few related points. First, the issue with Murty Sanskrit and the l with dot below and macron is of course a font issue. Simply: the font is missing the glyph at U+1E39, which is exactly LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH DOT BELOW AND MACRON I'll try to give the developers of that font a

Re: [XeTeX] bug in polyglossia/sanskrit? (problem with diacritical marks)

2019-05-19 Thread Steve White
In these tests, I'm using: FreeSerif from the SVN *before* my attempt at a "fix" (r. 3391) Sanskrit 2003 1.05 August 22, 2004 Murty Sanskrit 001.001 I found the particular way that the font is set in the source has a big effect. I have no idea what is "right". But one produces better results.

Re: [XeTeX] bug in polyglossia/sanskrit? (problem with diacritical marks)

2019-05-19 Thread Steve White
Hi, all, I have reproduced François' effect with FreeSerif, as well as Dominik's effect with Sanskrit 2003. I started with stock Linux Mint 19.1. Then I installled TeXLive 2018 from the PPA of jonathonf/texlive-2018. In the results of running xelatex on the sample, I did not see any

Re: [XeTeX] bug in polyglossia/sanskrit? (problem with diacritical marks)

2019-05-19 Thread Steve White
Hi Zdeněk, I don't see anything amiss in my TL 2019 installation on Linux Mint. (Only Murty Sanskrit shows some oddities) However, even there XeLaTeX says: Compiled with HarfBuzz version 1.7.6; using 1.7.6 I suspect the problem has something to do with Harfbuzz 2.3.1, and I would very much like