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------- Additional comments from david...@openoffice.org Sun Jan 30 00:21:39 +0000 2011 ------- joaopaulo1511 said the following: "I have been using Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview, and Word now supports the advanced OpenType properties (ligatures, contextual alternatives and so on). It would be nice to have them on OpenOffice.org too." I second that wholeheartedly. Type foundries should start applying OpenType standard (2003) to their fonts. MS Office 2010 does ligatures correctly. Notepad did it since 2006, Adobe since 2004. I made a font with 400 (FOUR HUNDRED) plus ligatures and they form perfectly inside the browsers, Firefox, Safari, Lunascape and Arora plus Adobe InDesign and PhotoShop: http://www.lovatasinhala.com/ The font: http://www.lovatasinhala.com/avazyabadu/samagana.ttf The input is raw Latin letters within ISO-8859-1. All the ligatures are in the PUA of the font. I think OOw programmers should consult Mozilla on how they do this in Firefox and Thunderbird's mail editor. (IE makes the ligatures halfway and gives up and picks up again seeminlgy randomly. It is slow, and the letters are scratchy looking if you have Clear Type turned on, aaiyaiyaa! OOw is similar. Install my font and copy a para from the web site into OO-Write to see what I mean). I use the following CSS3 rule in the web pages: text-rendering: geometricPrecision / optimizeLegibility (both work) I have no clue why it works except that the Lookup Tables in the font actually offer the ligatures. There is no problem in searching component letters embedded inside a ligature. (My base letters are, of course, awfully different from their common Latin shapes, sorry). I have also extended JavaScript sort() to sort this text according to Sinhala (extended Sanskrit) collation order and it works perfectly in spite of ligaures. There is one Unicode character that is suppoosed to be intervened between two letters when you do not want them to join: u200C called ZWNJ. I use that inside my web pages. Thanks. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@sw.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@sw.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
