[XeTeX] XeTeX 0.9999.2 released

[Zdenek Wagner]

2013/4/7 Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org>:
> Could you please upload the fonts you are using (or point to where to
> get them), especially the unreleased version of the fonts.
>
The official release as well as the URL of the svn repository can be found at
https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/

> Regards,
> Khaled
>
> On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 06:49:04PM +0200, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/xetex-test/ contains my Devanagari tests.
>> There is currently only one Devanagari font implementing both Sanskrit
>> and Hindi and switching the conjuncts according to the language.
>> Unfortunatelly, both the offitial release and the latest svn revision
>> fail in XeTeX 0.9999.2 (these are most probably HarfBuzz issues). I do
>> not know Sanskrit, thus I test mainly Hindi. If someone donates me a
>> representative Sanskrit text with complex conjuncts, I will add it to
>> my test suite (I need a free text that I could publish on my test
>> page).
>>
>> 2013/4/6 Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org>:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I have just uploaded a third beta release of 0.9999.x series. Barring
>> > any major issues, this should be the version included in upcoming TeX
>> > Live pretest and, eventually, the final TeX Live 2013 release.
>> >
>> > The archive can be downloaded from SourceForge page:
>> >
>> >         https://sourceforge.net/projects/xetex/files/source/
>> >
>> > This is a bug fix release, fixing some of the bugs found in the previous
>> > beta. There are no pre-built binaries right now, but they should be
>> > available from TLContrib shortly.
>> >
>> >
>> > Main changes in this release:
>> >
>> > XeTeX:
>> > * Fix regression in \XeTeXOT* primitives with fonts where the number of
>> >   languages in a given script is not the same in both GSUB and GPOS tables.
>> >
>> > * Add a workaround for a bug in clang headers to allow building with it on Mac.
>> >
>> > * Fix regression in loading PNG files on Mac.
>> >
>> > * Fix multiple regression with vertical text layout.
>> >
>> > * Update to HarfBuzz 0.9.15 fixing a couple of regressions with Arabic non
>> >   spacing marks and Hangul jamo.
>> >
>> > * Various build fixes for third party libraries.
>> >
>> > * XeTeX reference is now included in the release tarball.
>> >
>> > xdvipdfmx:
>> > * Speed up inclusion of eps figures by Tsuchimura Nobuyuki.
>> >
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Khaled
>> >
>> >
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