From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Small caps?
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:24:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <500FAD33.9070107@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH-HCWUsr_XC8e5AffyzQyd6TerSQ-6YAERjNu-zWmywiDQa6A@mail.gmail.com>
On 25-7-2012 10:16, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> Hi thanks everyone for their responses.
>
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>>> But it lacks Indic scripts, so it's not an option for him, at least not
>>> yet.
>>
>> Indic scripts will be supported in mkiv some day soon (at the ntg meeting
>> there has been a presentation about devanagari etc using the context font
>> machinery and that will be integrated once it's stable).
>
> Hi -- I'm curious to know about your future plans for Indic. Are you
> going to use HarfBuzz? Even in Indic, I have specific minority
> orthography requirements due to which I'm using Graphite-enabled
> fonts. HarfBuzz (new one, not old one) supports Graphite and so my
> requirements would be met if that is used, but if you are going to
> develop yet another rendering system (please don't tell me it's so) it
> would be quite difficult...
luatex does not use specific libraries but assumes all to be done in lua
.. the otf machinery in mkiv is lua based (independent, extensible) and
support for indic runs on top of that (the additional code is written by
some dutchies who need it for high end academic publishing) ... I don't
know about specific monorities but demos of several variants were shown
Hans
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-24 19:11 Shriramana Sharma
2012-07-24 19:25 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-07-24 19:29 ` Shriramana Sharma
2012-07-24 21:21 ` Hans Hagen
2012-07-24 21:52 ` Khaled Hosny
2012-07-24 19:34 ` Marco
2012-07-25 2:33 ` Shriramana Sharma
2012-07-25 3:08 ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-07-25 4:39 ` Shriramana Sharma
2012-07-25 4:59 ` Rogers, Michael K
2012-07-25 5:06 ` Shriramana Sharma
2012-07-25 7:04 ` Marco
2012-07-25 7:43 ` Mojca Miklavec
2012-07-25 13:12 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-07-25 12:34 ` Rogers, Michael K
2012-07-25 7:35 ` Hans Hagen
2012-07-25 7:41 ` Mojca Miklavec
2012-07-25 7:53 ` Hans Hagen
2012-07-25 8:16 ` Shriramana Sharma
2012-07-25 8:22 ` luigi scarso
2012-07-25 8:24 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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