On Jan 15, 2007, at 21:25, J.Pietschmann wrote:
Andreas L Delmelle wrote:
BTW: I took a very quick look, and does anyone know if there is a
good reason why Hyphenation.word is a String?
The hyphenator interface goes through several wrapping layers,
probably due to the usual "take working co
Simon Pepping wrote:
Aren't ligatures a feature of the font,
Yes and no. While the font may provide a glyph, it is the
responsibility of the content rendering code to decide whether
a ligature should be used. Deciding whether a ligature is
applicable is not necessarily trivial, for example ther
Andreas L Delmelle wrote:
BTW: I took a very quick look, and does anyone know if there is a good
reason why Hyphenation.word is a String?
The hyphenator interface goes through several wrapping layers,
probably due to the usual "take working code and wrap it to fit
the caller" method.
This whic
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 04:42:12PM +0100, J.Pietschmann wrote:
> As for Ligatures and character shaping: an algorithm for automatically
> detecting ligature points may use a pattern lookup similar to the
> pattern based hyphenation. The pattern dictionary should store only
> either NFD or NFC for
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 11:05:33PM +0100, J.Pietschmann wrote:
> There are libraries which already implement UAX#15 properly, e.g. icu4j,
> but especially icu4j is a rather large blob of a jar. I think Unicode
> normalization should be handled like PDF encryption: do it if the
> library is availabl
On Jan 14, 2007, at 23:11, J.Pietschmann wrote:
Andreas L Delmelle wrote:
The SHY character will be presented to the hyphenator simply as a
character of the word it appears in. The hyphenator should then be
smart enough to recognize this as a special character, and do
something like: creat
On Jan 14, 2007, at 22:51, J.Pietschmann wrote:
Andreas L Delmelle wrote:
Based on Jörgs statistics, I'd say that the number of children
will most likely never reach the level where using direct index-
based access (ArrayList) has its benefits over traversing a tree
of references (LinkedLis
Manuel Mall wrote:
Font selection in combination with character substitution. Ligatures
and character shaping.
Joerg, can you elaborate on this for me please.
Fonts may contain glyphs for precomposed Unicode characters, or they
may not. If a list of fonts is searched for a glyph of a charact
On 13.01.2007 06:32:15 Manuel Mall wrote:
> While looking into the support for the Soft Hyphen the area of
> hyphenation combined with kerning is causing me trouble.
>
> Aside 1: our fonts page claims we don't support kerning but I believe we
> do.
Yes, we do.
> Aside 2: Our tests are based o
