On Thursday, March 11, 2010, 12:12:09 PM, thomas wrote: tdkc> I did some looking at how Indic scripts are implemented using TrueType tdkc> and the complexity goes way beyond simple ligatures. I don't think tdkc> SVG fonts supports the needed complexity (multiple layers of many to tdkc> many GSUB tables).
Correct, SVG fonts do not support the complexity needed for most Indic languages, particularly those written in Devanagari. It would also be tricky to add this, given that OpenType already covers many (not all) languages, many SVG implementations can handle local OpenType fonts, and WOFF gives the possibility of remotely downloaded OpenType fonts. tdkc> Anyway, I think you will have to write some custom code to extract tdkc> your glyphs. If it looks like it's generally applicable it would tdkc> be nice if you could contribute back but it's not immediately obvious tdkc> that it would be generalizable. -- Chris Lilley mailto:[email protected] Technical Director, Interaction Domain W3C Graphics Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
