[XeTeX] Ancient Hebrew font problem

[Gildas Hamel]

* Gareth Hughes (garzohugo at gmail.com) wrote:
  |>  Kirk Lowery wrote:
  |>  > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Gareth Hughes <garzohugo at gmail.com> wrote:
  |>  > 
  |>  >> Are you using that format for a reason? I would prefer to use
  |>  >> polyglossia for a bilingual document:
  |>  >>
  |>  > 
  |>  > Two (possibly related questions):
  |>  > 
  |>  > 1. Does polyglossia preclude the need for the bidi package?
  |>  
  |>  Polyglossia loads bidi if an RTL language is defined.
  |>  
  |>  > 2. What advantages does polyglossia have for bilingual documents?
  |>  
  |>  Polyglossia provides logical, clean commands like \texthebrew{}, which
  |>  will change font and set direction. It does quite a few other things too
  |>  like set page numbers, caption names and date formats for the overall
  |>  document language. I've written bilingual documents in XeLaTeX before
  |>  polyglossia and find it a lot easier with it.
  |>  > 
  |>  > Thanks!
  |>  > 
  |>  > Kirk
  |>  
  |>  Gareth.
  |>  
For the purpose of comparing Hebrew setting in the 3 fonts, I would use a \begin{hebrew}.... \end{hebrew} environment, as in the following below. I don't have Cardo and used Arial. I'm using fontspec 2.0 hence the Ligatures=TeX variant. Pdf attached.
--gildas

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\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{english}
\setotherlanguage{hebrew}
\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX]{Linux Libertine O}
\newfontfamily\arial[Script=Hebrew]{Arial}
\newfontfamily\sbl[Script=Hebrew]{SBL Hebrew}
\newfontfamily\ezra[Script=Hebrew]{Ezra SIL}

\begin{document}
\section*{Junicode}
\begin{hebrew}
	\arial{וְהָאָ֗רֶץ הָיְתָ֥ה תֹ֨הוּ֙ וָבֹ֔הוּ}
\end{hebrew}
\section*{SBL Hebrew}
\begin{hebrew}
	\sbl{וְהָאָ֗רֶץ הָיְתָ֥ה תֹ֨הוּ֙ וָבֹ֔הוּ}
\end{hebrew}
\section*{Ezra SIL}
\begin{hebrew}
	\ezra{וְהָאָ֗רֶץ הָיְתָ֥ה תֹ֨הוּ֙ וָבֹ֔הוּ}
\end{hebrew}
\end{document}
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