Adding ccmp=yes to the font feature seems to fix this by replacing the problematic combinations with ligatures. Thanks, Marc On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:11:56 -0500 Marc Trius wrote:

Hi All, I am trying to set some text in Hebrew with diacritical marks, and whenever there is a diacritical that's supposed to come in the middle of a letter, all the marks are coming off misaligned, right after the glyph rather than in the middle of it (or wherever they're supposed to be).

I've attached a ConTeXt and Gimp output using the same font, Ezra SIL.

Here is the code:

\definefontfeature [hebrew] [ mode=node, expansion=quality, protrusion=quality, language=dflt, script=hebr, liga=yes, rlig=yes, dlig=yes, clig=yes, mark=yes, mkmk=yes, kern=yes ]

\starttypescript [serif] [ezrasil] \definefontsynonym [Ezra-SIL-Regular] [name:ezrasil] [features=hebrew] \definefontsynonym [Ezra-SIL-Bold] [name:ezrasil] [features=hebrew] \definefontsynonym [Ezra-SIL-Italic] [name:ezrasil] [features=hebrew] \definefontsynonym [Ezra-SIL-Bold-Italic] [name:ezrasil] [features=hebrew] \stoptypescript

\starttypescript [serif] [ezrasil] [name] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [Ezra-SIL-Regular] [features=hebrew] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [Ezra-SIL-Italic] [features=hebrew] \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [Ezra-SIL-Bold] [features=hebrew] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [Ezra-SIL-Bold-Italic][features=hebrew] \stoptypescript

\definetypeface [Hebrew] [rm][serif][ezrasil] [default] [features=hebrew]

\textdir TRT\pardir TRT\bodydir TRT\pagedir TRT

\usetypescript [Hebrew] \setupbodyfont [Hebrew, 12pt]

\starttext בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית בָּרָ֣א אֱלֹהִ֑ים אֵ֥ת הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וְאֵ֥ת הָאָֽרֶץ \stoptext

Thanks for your help. -- Marc Trius

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-- Marc Trius "The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment." --- George Orwell