Re: HarfBuzz in Fedora 12?

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 12/31/2009 09:07 PM, Petr Tomasek wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I've installed Fedora 12 + the syriac Meltho fonts(*), however the
> shaping is totally wrong (with all: pango based programs like gedit or
> abiword and ICU based applications like OOo and XeTeX).
>
> The fonts appear, but apparently no shaping is involved - the letters are
> not connected and the punctuation is not placed to the right position.
>
> I wonder, whether in Fedora 12 the new HarfBuzz is used or not.
> I am little confused about this blog entry:
>   http://mces.blogspot.com/2009/11/harfbuzz-hackfest.html

F12 still uses all the Pango modules for Syriac / Arabic / ....  So it should 
all work.  File a bug if it doesn't.  Would help if you can try with F11 also.

> (Also, would older / non-OTF version of the font help? I remember
> In some previous version of pango the syriac displayed OK...)

No.  Non-OpenType fonts are unusable by Pango.

behdad

> Thank You,
> Petr Tomasek
>
> (*) http://www.bethmardutho.org/support/meltho/download/