[XeTeX] XeTeX 0.9999.1 released

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Thu Mar 28 10:45:50 CET 2013


On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:29:35AM +0900, Dohyun Kim wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> "vertical" option of XeTeX 0.9999 is currently broken.  Applying
> attached patch seems to make it work better, though I know almost
> nothing about C language.

I appreaciate if you have test files for me to try, I had hard time
figuring how to test this since most CJK fonts that I have give funny
results even with old XeTeX.

Regards,

> Still, some issue remains.  Especially vertical gpos feature, for
> instance +vhal option, does not work correctly.  Though vhal feature
> should decrease the glyph advance, current XeTeX increases it instead.
>  Harfbuzz, on the other hand, works correctly.  I could not figure out
> where this problem comes from.

Tests for this are welcome, too.

Regards,
Khaled


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