Using this font in XeLaTeX

[rdholkar]

Hi,

thank you for this font! I could use this font in XeLaTeX; following is the MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{marathi}
\newfontfamily{\devanagarifont}{MarathiCursiveT}
\setmainfont[Script=Devanagari]{MarathiCursiveT}
\begin{document}
मोडी मधील लाटेक्-वापरून बनवलेला पहिला दस्तऐवज.
\end{document}

However, in the output the line on the top of the words breaks when there is space in the source; this should not happen, and neither does this happen in Pages (OSX document editor). How can one overcome this issue?

[abhi-deshpande]

I noticed that when we explicitly define that whitespace character in our content, XeLaTeX correctly identifies it..! Although this should not be required, it may give us a clue of what may be defected.

I used the following XeLaTeX code (MarathiCursive 2.1 is used) :

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{MarathiCursive}
\begin{document}
𑘮𑘱\char"0020𑘦𑘻𑘚𑘲\char"0020𑘩𑘱𑘢𑘲\char"0020𑘁𑘮𑘹.
\end{document}

And the output was :

In the above image, some characters are misplaced, but the topline is working correctly. Also, it may be possible that its a XeLaTeX bug.

[khaledhosny]

Newer version of XeTeX has \XeTeXinterwordspaceshaping (default is 0, try with 1 and 2).

[abhi-deshpande]

@khaledhosny you were right on that count. I added \XeTeXinterwordspaceshaping=2 in my above code & removed the definition of whitespace from content. The topline worked correctly...! Although, the characters are still misplaced. This misplacing can also be seen in Scribus. This still needs to be worked out.

[abhi-deshpande]

@khaledhosny I diagnosed this issue a bit deeper and found that the misplacing of characters in XeLaTeX was due to the fact that I was not using Renderer=Graphite I found one of your thread here. By using the code in that post, I was able to enable Graphite renderer. MarathiCursiveG is working flawlessly there.

I am sharing my code for someone finding references or help :

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\newfontfamily\graphite[Renderer=Graphite]{MarathiCursiveG}
\XeTeXinterwordspaceshaping=2
\begin{document}
\graphite 𑘮𑘱 𑘦𑘻𑘚𑘲 𑘩𑘱𑘢𑘲 𑘁𑘮𑘹.
\end{document}

I got the accurate output :

Now speaking about Scribus, It currently does not have Graphite support, as mentioned in this open bug :

We have already made test with Harfbuzz graphite support. There are currently some difference on how Harfbuzz graphite engine provides results compared to the Opentype engine and amongst other things this triggers issues with OpenType fonts which contains both OpenType and Graphite features. As of now Graphite support is completely disabled in Scribus and Harfbuzz explicitly instructed not to use its graphite engine.

So it seems that this issue is completely solved. Thanks @khaledhosny & @MihailJP for their outstanding work in typography...!