From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
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 21:41:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C153472.7090703@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100613191535.GA4150@khaled-laptop>
On 13-6-2010 9:15, 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.
i remember seeing that mentioned at some place but forgot the details
the interesting question then is .. where does one draw the line between
engine and clever fonts
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-13 19:41 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
2010-06-13 19:41 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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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