From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/69428 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Stender Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Sanskrit Devanagari characters Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:05:21 +0200 Message-ID: <4E032C01.2060705@danielstender.com> References: <1308783116.3578.23.camel@kip-laptop> <20110623043639.GA22664@khaled-laptop> <20110623060621.GA23789@khaled-laptop> <4E02ED5F.6050407@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1308830741 9199 80.91.229.12 (23 Jun 2011 12:05:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:05:41 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jun 23 14:05:38 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 1QZifB-0004pq-25 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:05:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E409CADFC; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:05:36 +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 llFNGvQom017; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:05:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D52DFCADE4; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:05:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EE90CADE4 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:05:32 +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 U1u5EiRTfSe2 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:05:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (filter1-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.69]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B27BCADD4 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:05:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from relay01.alfahosting-server.de (relay01.alfahosting-server.de [80.86.191.88]) by filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id p5NC5Tfl009107 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:05:29 +0200 Original-Received: by relay01.alfahosting-server.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3E38132C3DE4; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:05:29 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-DCC: : relay01 1282; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 Original-Received: from alfa3004.alfahosting-server.de (alfa3004.alfahosting-server.de [82.197.146.8]) by relay01.alfahosting-server.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DBD632C3DF9 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:05:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [192.168.42.18] (unknown [89.204.153.214]) by alfa3004.alfahosting-server.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 153FB23C5383 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:05:21 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110606 Icedove/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: <4E02ED5F.6050407@wxs.nl> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 X-Virus-Status: No X-Virus-Checker-Version: clamassassin 1.2.4 with ClamAV 0.97/13230/Thu Jun 23 04:18:12 2011 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=80.86.191.88; country=DE; region=14; city=Halle; latitude=51.5000; longitude=12.0000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=51.5000,12.0000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 06EXo5tiG - 42e89a334e57 - 20110623 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.69 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:69428 Archived-At: 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 -- http://www.danielstender.com/granthinam/ GPG key ID: 1654BD9C ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________