[XeTeX] Tabular spanning columns

[Axel Kielhorn]

Am 30.10.2009 um 19:31 schrieb Peter Dyballa:

>
> Am 30.10.2009 um 18:50 schrieb Axel Kielhorn:
>
>> It would be good to have a minimal example that I can actually run.  
>> (On TL 2009 pretest or TL 2008)
>
> Indeed! It would be too erroneous to create a full page.
>
>> In order to do this I need a font that includes the cuneiform  
>> glyphs. (Is there a free font available?)
>
> There are PostScript fonts by Peter Wilson for Ugaritic (alphabet)  
> and Old Persian. These two scripts are also defined in Unicode's  
> Supplementary Multilingual Plane. Code2001 and FreeSerif have them.  
> I also have a font "MPH 2B Damase" and no idea where it came from.  
> Are Wikipedia or http://www.wazu.jp/ recommending something?

I do have Free Serif installed but looked at the wrong position: U 
+12000 instead of U+10380/U+103A0.

Axel,
to whom one cuneiform looks like the other.