From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: devanagari rendering (2 errors)
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 00:22:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <522E4A21.2090905@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FC646973-7711-42FD-902F-EF900690F7D6@gmail.com>
On 9/9/2013 10:05 PM, Peter Graif wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently learned that ConTeXt-mkiv and LuaTeX now support devanagari fonts. An enormous thank you to Kai and Hans and anyone else involved in making that happen. I know it's a niche application, but for some of us it makes all the difference.
>
> I ran some tests on the output and the rendering is lovely, even on the extremely complex ligatures. I noticed only two errors, both of which are simple to describe and consistent:
>
> 1) Conjuncts of the form (consonant + virama + र "ra") render the opposite sequence intended. For example:
> [U+0915] [U+094D][U+0930] (क्र "kra") incorrectly produces the glyph intended for [U+0930][U+094D][U+0915] (र्क "rka").
>
> 2) Word-final virama causes words to render with a half-consonant at the end. They should instead display the whole-consonant with the virama diacritic. Half-consonants should be used only when conjoining with another subsequent consonant in the same word.
>
> A picture, in case it's more helpful: http://i.imgur.com/MpIwd9w.png
>
> I tried to look at the code in hopes of offering a fix, but I'm afraid it was way over my head. If there's anything else I can do to help, I'd be happy for the opportunity.
Can you make a as-small-as-possible test file?
Preferable with proper utf-8 sequences (+ comment mentioning
numbers/classes), good and wrong.
I can probably figure it out but I cannot read or input easily this kind
of scripts.
Hans
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-09 20:05 Peter Graif
2013-09-09 22:22 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2013-09-10 4:43 ` Peter Graif
2013-09-10 12:04 ` Hans Hagen
2013-09-10 15:44 ` Peter Graif
2013-09-10 16:42 ` Rajeesh K Nambiar
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