From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Sanskrit Devanagari characters
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:06:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110623060621.GA23789@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTik7A+a1Q2p60iFoqHixJuE686+8bg@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 07:58:38AM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 06:36, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>
> I don't know to what extent the support is missing (how complex are
> the typographical rules apart from just sticking the letters close
> enough together and use ligatures), but there is also a chance that
> the features are added if that is simple enough.
AFAIK, Indic is the biggest OpenType mysteries and no one seems to get
it right, apart from MS who wrote the spec (there is even two
incompatible specs, abandoned one that is supported by FOSS
implementations and a new one that only MS implements.)
Regards,
Khaled
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Khaled Hosny
Egyptian
Arab
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-23 6:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-22 22:51 Kip Warner
2011-06-23 4:36 ` Khaled Hosny
2011-06-23 5:58 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-06-23 6:06 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
2011-06-23 7:38 ` Hans Hagen
2011-06-23 12:05 ` Daniel Stender
2011-06-24 0:23 ` Kip Warner
2011-06-26 0:22 ` Kip Warner
2011-06-26 6:44 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-06-26 6:50 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-06-26 6:59 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-06-26 9:31 ` Hans Hagen
2011-06-27 2:10 ` Kip Warner
2011-06-27 7:35 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-06-28 1:39 ` Kip Warner
2011-06-28 1:51 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-06-28 1:57 ` Kip Warner
2011-06-24 0:25 ` Kip Warner
2011-06-24 7:06 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-06-24 21:36 ` Kip Warner
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