From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: ishamid@colostate.edu, Michael Saunders <odradek5@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: can Context render complex scripts?
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:28:53 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100613192853.GA4249@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100613191950.GB4150@khaled-laptop>
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:19:50PM +0300, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:15:35PM +0300, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 09:07:55PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> > > As Khaled mentioned ... are these proper otf fonts or do they rely
> > > on specific features in the microsoft engine?
> > >
> > > Most opentype features are quite generic and should work ok but if
> > > something special is needed more info is needed.
> >
> > IIRC, there is a bit of engine level glyph reordering involved with
> > Indic rendering.
>
> Here is a tugboat article with more details:
> http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb23-1/rajkumar.pdf
>
> Though it might not be up to date, but it gives a good overall idea
> about the issue.
And MS page:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otfntdev/indicot/features.aspx
--
Khaled Hosny
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
Free font developer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-13 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-11 7:14 Michael Saunders
2010-06-11 7:49 ` Khaled Hosny
2010-06-13 14:59 ` Hans Hagen
2010-06-13 16:58 ` Michael Saunders
2010-06-13 19:07 ` Hans Hagen
2010-06-13 19:15 ` Khaled Hosny
2010-06-13 19:19 ` Khaled Hosny
2010-06-13 19:28 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
2010-06-13 19:41 ` Hans Hagen
2010-06-13 20:07 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2010-06-14 1:21 ` Michael Saunders
2010-06-14 7:57 ` Hans Hagen
2010-06-13 19:29 ` Michael Saunders
2010-06-13 19:50 ` Khaled Hosny
2010-06-13 20:08 ` Hans Hagen
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