[OS X TeX] Malayalam with xelatex new

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On 13/11/2013 18:40, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> This is certainly better discussed on the XeTeX list: xetex at tug.org
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Thank you. I shall turn to that group.

>> The problems:
>>
>> The following are not rendered properly (only boxes)
> 
> I do not see any boxes… (Except I use Adobe Reader.)

>> a) Numbers
> 
> I cannot detect any numbers, the script is unknown to me. 

the numbers: page number.  The Malayalam numerals are here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numerals


I think it could be possible to add under the text block a little table with
English text
introducing the row and then one row with Malayalam digits and numbers and
another one with
the Arabic digits and numbers as used with Latin script. (Such a table could be
extended with
footnotes describing deficiencies. And it could be used for tests with a few
more fonts.)

do you mean just a table with the numbers?


>> b) puctuation marks
> 
> I don't see any…

The full stops and commas are rendered as small boxes (place holders)

> 
>> c) dashes (where the word is broken at the end of line)
> 
> They are possibly missing in two places… I can see gaps. Maybe this is a bug in Polyglossia, which is hyphenating the words.
> 
> I can see that Rachana (Version 05; Revision:0.100) has Latin punctuation (U+002C-U+002E, i.e., {,-.}). The final "." in the text 
seems to be translated to U+10FC0D-U+10FC1D-U+FFFF, one instance of ',"' to
U+10FC0A-U+FFFF-U+FFFF and a COMMA to U+FFFF.

Well, I do not know anything about unicode (other than the name!)

> 
> Obviously XeTeX still has problems with Indic scripts. These should be discussed on the the XeTeX list.

I shall turn to that list. Does xelatex also have a usenet just as comp.text.tex?


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