Edward Cherlin wrote: >On Monday 31 March 2003 06:38 am, Gaspar Sinai wrote: > > >>On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Edward Cherlin wrote: >> >> >>>Let's try some more. >>>á̀ế̀̀î́̀ổ́̀̀û̀̀n̂́̀x̂̉́̀̀ >>>Not too bad, except that only the first three accents on >>>each letter are actually displayed, and the dot on the i >>>isn't removed. >>> Hmm, I can see only two diacritics in Kwrite with Code2000 font. I found that you appended as many as five of them to each character in your sample. What font did you use? Nonetheless, it's a pleasant surprise that Kwrite does more than simple overstriking.
>>> >>>What do you see in your mail? >>> >>> >>Yudit currently supports Mark-To-Base and Mark-To-Mark >>(2.7.5.beta10) OpenType GPOS and it uses GSUB only for Indic >>scripts, ligatures and shaping. Resonable Tibetan (almost >>ready) also needs all of these complexities. >> >>If there is an urgent need for this in other scripts I can >>take a look at it. >> >> > >Not in Latin-alphabet text generally. Writing systems that have >such needs include Vietnamese, IPA, Math, Polytonic Greek, > > Does Vietnamese need diacritic marks ? Sure, it does, but I think all it needs are encoded as precomposed so that they don't need a special treatment other than the conversion between NFC and NFD. > >Indic and South Asian are much higher priority than multiply >accented Latin for mathematicians. > > That's why Indic scripts are rather well supported in Yudit now :-) >> >>Is it possible to define all the combinations in GPOS and GSUB >>tables in the font at all? >> >> It seems like this is where AAT fonts with state machine are superior to opentype fonts. -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/