On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:58 PM, David Perry <hospes.pri...@verizon.net>wrote:
> > > On 8/24/2010 8:17 PM, Gareth Hughes wrote: > >> >> The fontspec manual discusses the difference between ICU and AAT font >> handling. Macs use the latter, Linux and other operating systems use the >> former. >> > This is true, but remember that OS X can also use Windows-style TrueType or > OpenType fonts with no problem for standard scripts. In 10.4 Apple added > support for OpenType Arabic, but not for Hebrew (as far as I know). > > So if you are using, e.g., the SBL Hebrew font (which doesn't come in a > native AAT version) you would need to declare the script in order to > activate the ICU renderer and get support for mark positioning via the OT > features built into the font, whereas you wouldn't do so when working with a > native AAT font. > Yes, I had to learn this by experience. I need source files that work on all three major OSes, so I always specify font options. You would think that OS X would grok ICU by now. Grrr! Kirk -- Kirk E. Lowery, PhD President & Senior Research Fellow The J. Alan Groves Center for Advanced Biblical Research -- $DO || ! $DO ; try try: command not found
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