On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 06:44:42PM +0100, Petr Tomasek wrote: > > Hello! > > Has this bug been solved somehow? > > > My XeTeX seems to ignore ignore the ZWJ character completely > (at least when script=hebr). I tried to edit some font > and created custom ligatures. If the ligatures where done > with ZWJ, they didn't work. As soon, as I removed the ZWJ > from the ligature definiton, the litagure started to work! > > This did happen with 'ccmp', 'dlig' and 'rlig' GSUB tables.
OK. So I created simple font with two ligatures: one with ZWJ and one without. And guess what. The ZWJ appears as unknown character and only the ligature without ZWJ works. See: http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek/zjw_bug.tgz (The font was created with: $ fontforge --version Copyright (c) 2000-2009 by George Williams. Executable based on sources from 22:35 GMT 22-Jun-2009. Library based on sources from 22:35 GMT 22-Jun-2009. fontforge 20090622 libfontforge 20090622 ) > My XeTeX version (on Linux): > > xetex --version > XeTeX 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (Web2C 7.5.6) > kpathsea version 3.5.6dev > Copyright 2009 SIL International and Jonathan Kew. > There is NO warranty. Redistribution of this software is > covered by the terms of both the XeTeX copyright and > the Lesser GNU General Public License. > For more information about these matters, see the file > named COPYING and the XeTeX source. > Primary author of XeTeX: Jonathan Kew. > Compiled with ICU version 4.0 [with modifications for XeTeX] > Compiled with zlib version 1.2.3; using 1.2.3 > Compiled with FreeType2 version 2.3.7; using 2.3.7 > Compiled with fontconfig version 2.8.0; using 2.8.0 > Compiled with libpng version 1.2.15; using 1.2.15 > Compiled with xpdf version 3.01 > > (I would like to try a newer version of XeTeX, possibly from > the SVN, but the last time I tried it, it didn't compile...) > > Thank You! > > Petr Tomášek > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 01:45:18PM +1000, David Purton wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 05:01:18PM +0300, Avi Wollman wrote: > > > looks okay by me. > > > miktex 2.8 (windows 7x64) > > > This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.1 (MiKTeX 2.8) > > > > No - none of those characters are correct in your pdf. It appears that a > > ligature should be used but it is not being used. > > > > The combination of hataf patah + ZWJ + meteg should resolve to an > > un-mapped glyph ligature. This is not happening. There are a total of > > three ligatures involving meteg which should exhibit this behaviour, but > > they all seem to fail. > > > > Cheers, > > > > David > > > > -- > > David Purton > > dcpur...@marshwiggle.net > > > > -- > Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek> > Jabber: but...@jabbim.cz > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > EA 355:001 DU DU DU DU > EA 355:002 TU TU TU TU > EA 355:003 NU NU NU NU NU NU NU > EA 355:004 NA NA NA NA NA > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek> Jabber: but...@jabbim.cz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ EA 355:001 DU DU DU DU EA 355:002 TU TU TU TU EA 355:003 NU NU NU NU NU NU NU EA 355:004 NA NA NA NA NA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex