On 14 June 2011 22:52, Ed Trager <ed.tra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:09 PM, pravin....@gmail.com > <pravin....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On 14 June 2011 08:11, Kenichi Handa <ha...@m17n.org> wrote: > >> > >> In article <4df6c38f.30...@gmail.com>, Shriramana Sharma > >> <samj...@gmail.com> writes: > >> > >> > On 14-06-2011 00:18, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > >> > > I know that problem very well, and am working on a solution to > address > >> > > it. > >> > > Having more shapers doesn't really solve it though. > >> > >> > Yeah, I was meaning to say this: Each Indic script has its own unique > >> > characteristics and so even the classification of North Indic vs South > >> > Indic wouldn't work. > >> > >> FYI, m17n-lib's approach is to have a layouting engine for > >> each script. In the case of m17n-lib, having many layouting > >> engines has no problem. Each engine is just 100 to 300 > >> lines of text file containing layouting rules. We adopted > >> this approach because we found that a slight difference of > >> layouting rules results in rather complicated code when they > >> are mixed in a signle engine. > > > > Yeah, pango and even old harfbuzz code was problematic from fixing point > of > > view due to this problem and behdad as a upstream developer know this > very > > well :) > > > > since this time we are starting from scratch, it will be better to make > > individual engine and make them perfect. In this way we will know > exceptions > > of each language/script better. And then we will be in better position to > > merge them back. > > > > Advantage of having single engine for each script for now is we can > > concurrently work on most of the language. > > > > When I do various software projects, I always like to think in terms > of "phase one", "phase two" and "phase three" -- and I like to "sell" > projects to stakeholders in these terms. > > So, based on what I am hearing here, perhaps we can summarize the > proposed development process as follows: >
Agree with phases you are suggested. !! - Pravin S
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