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From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: wrong font fallback for Hebrew?
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:16:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6868A9C4-1836-4521-A6C1-81321F52E12D@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51F154A8.7010004@web.de>


Am 25.07.2013 um 18:39 schrieb Pablo Rodríguez <oinos@web.de>:

> Dear list,
> 
> using simplefonts (sorry, I don’t know how to do it with the standard
> typescripts [it might fail there too]), I don’t get font fallback
> working for some Hebrew characters.
> 
> Here is the sample:
> 
>    \usemodule[simplefonts]
>    \setupdirections[bidi=on]
>    \definefontfeature[hebrew][lang=heb,script=hebr]
>    \setmainfontfallback[FreeSerif][range={hebrew,greekandcoptic},
>    force=yes,features=hebrew]
>    \setmainfont[TeX Gyre Pagella]
>    \starttext
>    This Greek letter is printed: ά.\blank
> 
>    But this Hebrew letter isn’t: אָֽ​.
>    \stoptext
> 
> It works for Greek, but it doesn’t work for Hebrew.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?

The characters isn’t in one of the specified fallback ranges, you have to add “alphabeticpresentationforms” to the list.

Look at the block entry in the table: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/fb2f/index.htm

Wolfgang
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-25 16:39 Pablo Rodríguez
2013-07-25 17:16 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2013-07-25 17:38   ` Pablo Rodríguez

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