Re: [Dev-luatex] Libhyphen

2011-09-25 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 03:47:38PM +0200, Stephan Hennig wrote: > schrieb Khaled Hosny: > > > But there is also contextual features with more complex rules in > > which the font embeds all the knowledge about the context in which > > features are applied, and this is used for less straight forward

Re: [Dev-luatex] Libhyphen

2011-09-25 Thread Stephan Hennig
schrieb Khaled Hosny: > But there is also contextual features with more complex rules in > which the font embeds all the knowledge about the context in which > features are applied, and this is used for less straight forward > cases where the context are font dependant rather than defined by > scr

Re: [Dev-luatex] Libhyphen

2011-09-24 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 07:29:38PM +0200, Stephan Hennig wrote: > schrieb Khaled Hosny: > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 06:22:18PM +0200, Stephan Hennig wrote: > >> For Arabic script, I referred to glyph substitution. But I don't know > >> enough about Arabic script to explain further. :) > > > > Ara

Re: [Dev-luatex] Libhyphen

2011-09-24 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:57:16PM +0200, Stephan Hennig wrote: > schrieb Stephan Hennig: > > schrieb Khaled Hosny: > >> > >> Arabic handling in luatex (or rather luatex based packages) is done by > >> OpenType layout features processed by lua code, no engine techniques are > >> involved. > > > >

Re: [Dev-luatex] Libhyphen

2011-09-22 Thread Stephan Hennig
schrieb Stephan Hennig: > schrieb Khaled Hosny: >> >> Arabic handling in luatex (or rather luatex based packages) is done by >> OpenType layout features processed by lua code, no engine techniques are >> involved. > > Is OpenType powerful enough to solve all script related typesetting > problems

Re: [Dev-luatex] Libhyphen

2011-09-22 Thread Stephan Hennig
schrieb Khaled Hosny: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 06:22:18PM +0200, Stephan Hennig wrote: >> For Arabic script, I referred to glyph substitution. But I don't know >> enough about Arabic script to explain further. :) > > Arabic handling in luatex (or rather luatex based packages) is done by > OpenTy

Re: [Dev-luatex] Libhyphen

2011-09-21 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 06:22:18PM +0200, Stephan Hennig wrote: > For Arabic script, I referred to glyph substitution. But I don't know > enough about Arabic script to explain further. :) Arabic handling in luatex (or rather luatex based packages) is done by OpenType layout features processed by

Re: [Dev-luatex] Libhyphen

2011-09-21 Thread Stephan Hennig
schrieb Khaled Hosny: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 01:00:08AM +0200, Stephan Hennig wrote: >> >> The same pattern approach can be used to handle non-standard >> hyphenation, ligaturing, round-s recognition, etc. (I think there are >> use-cases in Arabic script as well.) > > I've to admit this is al

Re: [Dev-luatex] Libhyphen

2011-09-21 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 01:00:08AM +0200, Stephan Hennig wrote: > schrieb Taco Hoekwater: > > On 09/15/2011 10:56 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > >> > >> I just came across this library: > >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/hunspell/files/Hyphen/ > > > > Hyphenation is luatex is in fact an adaptation of

Re: [Dev-luatex] Libhyphen

2011-09-20 Thread Stephan Hennig
schrieb Taco Hoekwater: > On 09/15/2011 10:56 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: >> >> I just came across this library: >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/hunspell/files/Hyphen/ > > Hyphenation is luatex is in fact an adaptation of a (slightly > earlier) version of libhnj. At that time, it did not do compound

Re: [Dev-luatex] Libhyphen

2011-09-16 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 08:07:58AM +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > On 09/15/2011 10:56 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > >Hello all, > > > >I just came across this library: > >http://sourceforge.net/projects/hunspell/files/Hyphen/ > > > >Which seems to be the last iteration of libhj, and is currently used b

Re: [Dev-luatex] Libhyphen

2011-09-15 Thread Taco Hoekwater
On 09/15/2011 10:56 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: Hello all, I just came across this library: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hunspell/files/Hyphen/ Which seems to be the last iteration of libhj, and is currently used by OpenOffice/LibreOffice. It seems to have some interesting feature over the origi

[Dev-luatex] Libhyphen

2011-09-15 Thread Khaled Hosny
Hello all, I just came across this library: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hunspell/files/Hyphen/ Which seems to be the last iteration of libhj, and is currently used by OpenOffice/LibreOffice. It seems to have some interesting feature over the original hyphenation algorithm, namely support for