Hi Françoise, I'm aware of some serious problems. The development builds of FreeFont should resolve these.
If you would like, I can give you access to development builds; we would be glad to hear your input. What happened is this: Before 2012 or so, the main font rendering system in Linux was "Pango", which emulated the Indic rules of Windows XP and before. The 2012 release of FreeFont was tested and working in this system. But soon after, a new rendering system "Harfbuzz", which emulates the very different rules of Windows Vista/7, was introduced. This unfortunately broke all the Indic ranges in FreeFont (as well as many other fonts). We have put a lot of work into updating the fonts, but not all the ranges are tested yet. --and it may be a while yet, due partly to limitations on my own time. Cheers! On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 7:14 PM, François Patte <francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr> wrote: > Bonjour, > > > It seems to me that some ligatures are missing in FreeSerif fonts if I > use the devanagari script; as far as I tested these ones are missing: > > tr, pr, śr > > > Moreover, slanted devanagari glyphs are lacking > > Am I right, or I use an obsolete version of these fonts (from texlive-2013). > > Thank you > -- > François Patte > UFR de mathématiques et informatique > Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145 > Université Paris Descartes > 45, rue des Saints Pères > F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 > Tél. +33 (0)1 8394 5849 > http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex