From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/59570 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 22:08:06 +0200 Message-ID: <4C153AA6.40609@wxs.nl> References: <4C14F250.70206@wxs.nl> <4C152C8B.8030404@wxs.nl> <20100613195056.GA4265@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 1276459707 3109 80.91.229.12 (13 Jun 2010 20:08:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:08:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users To: Khaled Hosny Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Jun 13 22:08:25 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 1ONtTk-0000lr-3g for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:08:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D000C9AC7; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:08:19 +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 mIVUfNv-KmyB; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:08:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDD6BC9A70; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:08:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0F38C9A70 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:08:14 +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 UqEnF2MTB5M6 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:08:12 +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 65418C9A63 for ; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:08:12 +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 1721-1713362 for multiple; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:07:42 +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: <20100613195056.GA4265@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:59570 Archived-At: On 13-6-2010 9:50, Khaled Hosny wrote: > So, what we have here is that ConTeXt has no special knowledge about > Indic scripts, and thus it will not apply the feature properly according > the linguistic rules. So, instead of waiting for a "more modern font to > come along" (which unlikely to happen any time soon, giving how much the > industry have invested into OpenType, and the apparent failure of AAT), > just try to reach more people in the Indic community and come out with a > clear specification and tests that Hans can implement. from the ms pages it looks like we should split the chars (sequences) into components and after that the oft features can be applied; as the spec is somewhat fuzzy i'll just wait till precise specs are given Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________