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De: Jairo A. del Rio <jairoadelrio6@gmail.com>
Date: mar, 24 de nov. de 2020 a la(s) 14:16
Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Some ligatures don't work in latest LMTX
To: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>


Thank you very much, Hans. Ligatures now work. However, diacritics aren't
properly placed even using "features=arabic" (they appear below letters in
LMTX). ConTeXt MkIV still gives correct output.

Thank you in advance.

Jairo

El mar, 24 de nov. de 2020 a la(s) 12:04, Hans Hagen (j.hagen@xs4all.nl)
escribió:

> On 11/24/2020 8:12 AM, Jairo A. del Rio wrote:
> > |Hi everyone. The following example works fine with MkIV, but fails with
> > latest LMTX.
> > |
> >
> > |To be specific, the lam-alif ligature isn't working. Compile with both
> > to see differences.
> > |
> >
> > |Majalla is a Windows font, so I guess it's available for testing:
> > |
> >
> > |
> > \mainlanguage[arabic] \definefontfeature [arabic]
> > [mode=node,language=dflt,script=arab,
> > init=yes,medi=yes,fina=yes,isol=yes,
> > liga=yes,dlig=yes,rlig=yes,clig=yes,
> > mark=yes,mkmk=yes,kern=yes,curs=yes]
> > \definefontfamily[main][serif][sakkalmajalla][features=arabic]
> > \setupbodyfont[main] \setupdirections[bidi=global] \starttext أهلاً
> وسهلاً
> > \stoptext
> >
> > |
> >
> > |Is that a bug or are more features to be specified? Thank you in
> advance.
> (you can probably best use the already define arabic featre because it
> also does some contextual stuff)
>
> anyway, there was an issue with the state querying (isol etc) as side
> effect of another thing .. fixed in next upload (there haven't been
> fundamental changes to the font handling for quite a while)
>
> Hans
>
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