From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/59567 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: can Context render complex scripts? Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:41:38 +0200 Message-ID: <4C153472.7090703@wxs.nl> References: <4C14F250.70206@wxs.nl> <4C152C8B.8030404@wxs.nl> <20100613191535.GA4150@khaled-laptop> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1276458125 30801 80.91.229.12 (13 Jun 2010 19:42:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:42:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ishamid@colostate.edu, Michael Saunders To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Jun 13 21:42:03 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ONt4F-0008Jb-FY for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:42:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 155F0C9A1F; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:42:03 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Wen-Q4RTZ3ta; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:42:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF993C9A63; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:41:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3755C9A41 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:41:57 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id I8dvTOKY0ZAo for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:41:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (sc-162.r-213-125-29.schoolconnect.nu [213.125.29.162]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD2B4C9A1F for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:41:55 +0200 (CEST) X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.196; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.196] (unverified [10.100.1.196]) by controller-9 (SurgeMail 4.3e) with ESMTP id 1716-1713362 for multiple; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:41:17 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.4 In-Reply-To: <20100613191535.GA4150@khaled-laptop> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:59567 Archived-At: 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________