From: Idris Samawi Hamid <ishamid@lamar.colostate.edu>
Subject: RE: Open Type trickery [was Re: Encoding and mapping glyphs from an expert font
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 11:31:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <426E1473@webmail.colostate.edu> (raw)
>===== Original Message From "Adam Lindsay" <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk> =====
>Idris Samawi Hamid said this at Sat, 9 Apr 2005 19:27:21 -0600:
>>While we will still need huge fonts, the processing of complicated accents
>>should be much faster with the approach I have in mind (smaller otp's and
>>ovf's).
>It sounds a bit tricky with the eTeX line, because of the 256-character-
>per-TeX-font limit.
Aleph gives us 64,000-characters/font plus etex so that's not a problem. But
with some font/otp creativity we can still get some rather small fonts
(compared to the 10,000-character ovfs I'm using now...)
>Not necessarily impossible, but certainly
>contortionate. I'm led to think about XeTeX--a fair number of people on
>the list are happy with the AAT/OpenType support they get with some very
>sophisticated Arabic fonts.
If you can have one of your friends send me some pdf samples, that would be
nice. I am especially interested in accent handling over ligatures. OTOH, I
have yet to see a normal Arabic-script font with a full accent palette plus a
very complete set of ligatures (except mine of course->) Yes, there are
certainly some (outrageously expensive) Mac programs that come with really
beautiful and complete calligraphy Arabic fonts; I'll have to have a look at
those one day...
>And when you consider the educational price
>of a Mac mini, you're still way below the price of some software
>packages... :)
I'll look into it (Hans made a similar suggestion to me a few days ago),
though my own goal with my Arabic-script package is platform independence.
OTOH, aleph has much better bidi/large font/transcription support than
pdfetex. Maybe I will come to a TeX conference and lobby for integration of
these two. Then all will be well in the world...
Best
Idris
============================
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
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2005-04-10 17:31 Idris Samawi Hamid [this message]
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2005-04-10 15:29 ` Adam Lindsay
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