From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Sanskrit Devanagari characters
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:38:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E02ED5F.6050407@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110623060621.GA23789@khaled-laptop>
On 23-6-2011 8:06, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 07:58:38AM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 06:36, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>>
>> I don't know to what extent the support is missing (how complex are
>> the typographical rules apart from just sticking the letters close
>> enough together and use ligatures), but there is also a chance that
>> the features are added if that is simple enough.
>
> AFAIK, Indic is the biggest OpenType mysteries and no one seems to get
> it right, apart from MS who wrote the spec (there is even two
> incompatible specs, abandoned one that is supported by FOSS
> implementations and a new one that only MS implements.)
Indeed, and I even played with it for a while but as it needs additional
coding (the font is just part of the game) I decided that it only made
sense to spend time on it if there is real demand for it (plus enough
info). It could make a pet project for winter evenings. it's unlikely
that I need it in a project so that doesn't help either.
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-23 7:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-22 22:51 Kip Warner
2011-06-23 4:36 ` Khaled Hosny
2011-06-23 5:58 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-06-23 6:06 ` Khaled Hosny
2011-06-23 7:38 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2011-06-23 12:05 ` Daniel Stender
2011-06-24 0:23 ` Kip Warner
2011-06-26 0:22 ` Kip Warner
2011-06-26 6:44 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-06-26 6:50 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-06-26 6:59 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-06-26 9:31 ` Hans Hagen
2011-06-27 2:10 ` Kip Warner
2011-06-27 7:35 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-06-28 1:39 ` Kip Warner
2011-06-28 1:51 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-06-28 1:57 ` Kip Warner
2011-06-24 0:25 ` Kip Warner
2011-06-24 7:06 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-06-24 21:36 ` Kip Warner
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