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From: Daniel Stender <daniel@danielstender.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Sanskrit Devanagari characters
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:05:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E032C01.2060705@danielstender.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E02ED5F.6050407@wxs.nl>

I was planning to spend some time on at least typesetting Devanagari with ConTeXt in the
foreseenable future. I'll come back with this in a couple of weeks.

Greetings,
Daniel Stender

On 23.06.2011 09:38, Hans Hagen wrote:
> 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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  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-23 12:05 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
2011-06-23 12:05         ` Daniel Stender [this message]
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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