From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Urdu with NotoNastaliqUrdu-Regular.ttf
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 20:02:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5659FA40.5030407@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABR1-XakoPy85bkqEscQ-unGB18i1_8E1MPe2Lzd8-6S_94d-A@mail.gmail.com>
On 11/28/2015 12:49 PM, Deepak Jois wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>> something cursive but anyhow, there us no urdu language (dflt has to be
>> used)
>
> I reported the bug originally. I changed the fontspec directive in my
> test file to not specify the language. I got a better output, but
> still pretty bad.
>
> Details w/ screenshot:
> https://github.com/lualatex/luaotfload/issues/292#issuecomment-160283333
>
> Deepak
>
> PS: Btw fontspec does not complain about the language. In XeTeX, my
> experience has been that if a language is not present, it logs a
> message to stdout. I am not sure if fontspec on LuaLaTeX has the same
> behavior, but I did not see a message complaining about language.
>
> Also, here is the otfinfo output:
>
> $> otfinfo -s NotoNastaliqUrdu-Regular.ttf
> arab Arabic
> arab.ARA Arabic/Arabic
> arab.FAR Arabic/Farsi
> arab.KSH Arabic/Kashmiri
> arab.SND Arabic/Sindhi
> arab.URD Arabic/Urdu
> dflt <unknown script>
> latn Latin
well, only for gsub, not for gpos where only arab/dflt is defined ...
okay we could have another heuristic for that but of course it then
becomes harder to *not* use some feature
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-28 19:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-27 21:56 Philipp Gesang
2015-11-28 10:26 ` Hans Hagen
2015-11-28 11:49 ` Deepak Jois
2015-11-28 19:02 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2015-11-29 1:36 ` Deepak Jois
2015-11-29 3:38 ` Deepak Jois
2015-11-29 10:09 ` Hans Hagen
2015-11-29 10:12 ` Hans Hagen
2015-11-29 11:46 ` Hans Hagen
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