I understand the complexity of CTL in Indic scripts. But unless we are able to build that kind of functionality into SVG fonts, various animations possible because of path manipulations become impossible. Just the support of rendering Opentype fonts on canvas is not enough.
Best Regards -Raman ----------------------------------------------- RKVS Raman http://sites.google.com/site/rkvsraman ------------------------------------------------ On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Chris Lilley <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
