I was planning to spend some time on at least typesetting Devanagari with ConTeXt in the foreseenable future. I'll come back with this in a couple of weeks.
Greetings, Daniel Stender On 23.06.2011 09:38, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 23-6-2011 8:06, Khaled Hosny wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 07:58:38AM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >>> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 06:36, Khaled Hosny wrote: >>> >>> I don't know to what extent the support is missing (how complex are >>> the typographical rules apart from just sticking the letters close >>> enough together and use ligatures), but there is also a chance that >>> the features are added if that is simple enough. >> >> AFAIK, Indic is the biggest OpenType mysteries and no one seems to get >> it right, apart from MS who wrote the spec (there is even two >> incompatible specs, abandoned one that is supported by FOSS >> implementations and a new one that only MS implements.) > > Indeed, and I even played with it for a while but as it needs additional > coding (the font is just > part of the game) I decided that it only made sense to spend time on it if > there is real demand for > it (plus enough info). It could make a pet project for winter evenings. it's > unlikely that I need > it in a project so that doesn't help either. > > Hans -- http://www.danielstender.com/granthinam/ GPG key ID: 1654BD9C ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
