On 25-7-2012 10:16, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Hi thanks everyone for their responses.
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote:
But it lacks Indic scripts, so it's not an option for him, at least not
yet.
Indic scripts will be supported in mkiv some day soon (at the ntg meeting
there has been a presentation about devanagari etc using the context font
machinery and that will be integrated once it's stable).
Hi -- I'm curious to know about your future plans for Indic. Are you
going to use HarfBuzz? Even in Indic, I have specific minority
orthography requirements due to which I'm using Graphite-enabled
fonts. HarfBuzz (new one, not old one) supports Graphite and so my
requirements would be met if that is used, but if you are going to
develop yet another rendering system (please don't tell me it's so) it
would be quite difficult...
luatex does not use specific libraries but assumes all to be done in lua
.. the otf machinery in mkiv is lua based (independent, extensible) and
support for indic runs on top of that (the additional code is written by
some dutchies who need it for high end academic publishing) ... I don't
know about specific monorities but demos of several variants were shown
Hans
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