Re: Indic fonts with MkIV and

[Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>]

On 12/19/2020 8:06 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
> On 12/19/20 2:59 PM, Robert Zydenbos wrote:
>> On 19.12.20 09:10, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>>
>> YES… YES!
>> YES YES YES YES YES YES (I'm trying to express enthusiasm.) That's it!
>>
>> The remaining question here is: where do I find such magical
>> expressions like "features=kannada-one"? (Why "kannada-one"?
>> "One"???) If I know that, then (so I assume) I could do the very same
>> with the other Indian scripts which I use in my work.
> Hi Robert,
> 
> this is from font-pre.mkxl (and I assume font-pre.mkiv [I mean, the same
> file for MkIV and LMTX).
> 
> The features for Indic scripts seem to be (sorry, I’m totally ignorant
> outside the Latin or Greek scripts): devanagari-one, bengali-one,
> gujarati-one, gurmukhi-one, kannada-one, malayalam-one, oriya-one,
> tamil-one, telugu-one.
> 
> There are one versions, because they are also two counterparts
> (devanagari-two, bengali-two, gujarati-two, gurmukhi-two, kannada-two,
> malayalam-two, oriya-two, tamil-two, telugu-two).
> 
> What the OpenType specification includes as script tags
> (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/scripttags)
> contains second versions for what might be some (or all [I’m afraid I
> don’t know]) Indic scripts.
> 
> Why are second versions? Using their own words:
> 
> “The OpenType script tags can also correlate with a particular OpenType
> Layout implementation, with the result that more than one script tag may
> be registered for a given Unicode script (e.g. 'deva' and 'dev2').”
> 
> I hope the description above might help,
can you wikify this?

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