From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/69418 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Sanskrit Devanagari characters Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:38:07 +0200 Message-ID: <4E02ED5F.6050407@wxs.nl> References: <1308783116.3578.23.camel@kip-laptop> <20110623043639.GA22664@khaled-laptop> <20110623060621.GA23789@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 1308814724 14381 80.91.229.12 (23 Jun 2011 07:38:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:38:44 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jun 23 09:38:40 2011 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 1QZeUp-0002WU-He for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:38:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A05ECADAF; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:38:38 +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 2rsp9Frx0+U7; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:38:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 553EDCADD4; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:38:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABAB4CADD4 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:38:33 +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 OD2d7vqisVrJ for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:38:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter4-til.mf.surf.net (filter4-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.220]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF0E1CADAF for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:38:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter4-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id p5N7cUs4020231 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:38:31 +0200 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 5.2a) with ESMTP id 5265-1713362 for multiple; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:38:25 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.11 ThunderBrowse/3.3.5 In-Reply-To: <20110623060621.GA23789@khaled-laptop> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=11; city=Den Haag; latitude=52.0833; longitude=4.3000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.0833,4.3000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 05EXjCuNV - 104a8e744c90 - 20110623 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.220 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:69418 Archived-At: 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. 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