On 2017-04-22 01:36, Jonathan Kew wrote: > So pulling a harfbuzz update into texlive/xetex and rebuilding would > indeed be beneficial.
Am I correct that I could avoid rebuilding xetex on my Ubuntu Linux system? The binary /usr/bin/xetex is dynamically linked, and I have HarfBuzz and Graphite2 compiled from source and installed in /usr/local. The ldd command (ldd /usr/bin/xetex) reports those two libraries are loaded from /usr/local, and xetex -version reports Compiled with Graphite2 version 1.3.6; using 1.3.9 Compiled with HarfBuzz version 1.0.1; using 1.4.5 The xetex binary as installed by the Tex Live installer in /usr/local does not seem to load those two libraries. Which means that in order to have a xetex in /usr/bin (as packaged by Debian/Ubuntu) that has the update that JK did in the first part of 2016 to enable cross-space contextual rendering (needed for the Awami Nastaliq font) you would need Ubuntu 16.10 (yakkety) or later in order to have TeX Live 2016. Or maybe you can update /usr/bin/xetex with the PPA at ppa:jonathonf/texlive-2016, but I have not tested this to see if it would dynamically load the needed libraries. Bobby -- Bobby de Vos /devos.bo...@gmail.com/ -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex