[XeTeX] FreeSerif not working for me in Devanagari

[Zdenek Wagner]

2012/9/7  <mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca>:
> On Fri, 7 Sep 2012, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>> If you use XeTeX this way, it is sufficient if it compiles and one
>> person responsible for producing the final version will fine-tune the
>> line and page breaks and lock it.
>
> I generally agree.  This kind of thing can be carried too far, though.  I
> recently needed to convert a document from LaTeX to Microsoft Word format.
> When I loaded the same resultant Word document on four different
> computers, no two of them thought it had the same number of pages (with a
> length difference of 15 pages between longest and shortest, on a roughly
> 400-page document), and on one, the whole thing came up in bold italics
> for no clear reason.  I hope that XeTeX will always enforce better
> stability than that.
>
It depends. It seems to me that TeX Gyre fonts are frozen and the text
using them will remain stable for years but the Deja Vu fonts evolve
quickly.

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