[XeTeX] patach furtivum in biblical hebrew

[Khaled Hosny]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 07:01:02PM +0100, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
> I have to confess that when I first read your message,
> I thought that a patach furtivum was a mis-spelled
> Linnaean binomial (mis-spelled because the genus
> was not capitalised) for some obscure species
> of ground-hugging plant ...  Now I realise that it is
> a linguistic term, I can at least try your example,
> but for me it fails rather early on :
> 
> >(e:/TeX/Live/2010/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/polyglossia/babel-hebrewalph.def))kpath
> >sea: Invalid fontname `SBL Hebrew/ICU', contains ' '
> 
> >l.7 \newfontfamily\sbl[Script=Hebrew]{SBL Hebrew}
> >
> >?

Despite the misleading error message, it means you dont have the font
(and thus xetex is falling back to tfm fonts, results in kpathsea
complaining from the invalid font name).

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer