Gora Mohanty wrote Thu, 2 Feb 2006 05:47:39 +0000 (GMT): > Yeah, but that is hardly enough to implement an AAT font, let alone a > rendering engine. Nor do I see from that article a reason why this is > advantageous to OpenType, something which Apple promised to support but > apparently does not adequately do so. I was approached by someone who > wanted to implement Indic fonts in AAT, and he uses a trial-and-error > method based on copying rules from existing fonts, which is a rather > laborious and error-prone method for Indic fonts. Currently, I see no > reason for the open-source world to try to support AAT. >
You may be right. I am in the early stages of my education about fonts and the cavalier way the renderer works with them. > Well, if the particular representation is still in use, the bug could > be > fixed. Could you submit a more complete report, including the set of > Unicode input characters, a picture of the expected output, and, if > possible, a picture of what you actually get from Pango, ICU, or QT? > It would be great if you could list these by the Unicode input > sequence, > and maybe someone can take a look at them. It would be even better if > you > would be willing to help out in putting together a comprehensive set of > conjuncts, and a complete glyph repository for Tamil. I will do that! May be we will continue the discussion directly, off the scribus list, since others may not find it very interesting! Suki
