Re: improving kannada script

[luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>]

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On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 4:01 PM Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On 10/31/2018 3:38 PM, luigi scarso wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 11:22 AM luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com
> > <mailto:luigi.scarso@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >     On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 10:18 AM Ulrike Fischer <news3@nililand.de
> >     <mailto:news3@nililand.de>> wrote:
> >
> >         According to the xelatex output in the following example both
> >         variants are not correct. What would be needed would be the first
> >         two glyphs from variant 1 (knd2 script) and the third from
> variant 2
> >         (knda script).
> >
> >
> >     dunno, but to start with at  least I visually see what's going on:
> >
> >     \showotfcomposition{file:notosanskannada-regular.ttf*kannada-testA
> >     at 48pt}{-1}{ಕ್ರ}
> >
> >
> >     \showotfcomposition{file:notosanskannada-regular.ttf*kannada-testB
> >     at 48pt}{-1}{ಕ್ರ}
> >
> > support for knd2 is still in progress,
> > and  in knda
> > glyph ಕ (U+00C95) +  glyph ್ (U+00CCD) + glyph ರ (U+00CB0)
> > also is not ok ( at least for what I understand until now).
> > I see where it fails ( and where hb does it right), let's see if I am
> > able to find a patch.
>
> fyi, there will be an update for some set set of indic script later this
> year (most is done but it all relates to available time of those involved)
>
yes,
it's more a matter to see the details under the hood

-- 
luigi

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