> Will appreciate help in getting letter क्र (as an example) rightly rendered
> via latex.
This is SOVED for latex at least, thanks to this mail thread:
http://www.tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2007-December/008043.html
Basically, there is an option to let xetex know that it needs to take care of
ligat
>
> You can see the applications like word processors, email editors, browsers
> etc. (most of them) render the word properly.
>
> However other applications like terminal emulators (say konsole or gnome-
> terminal) split the second letter i.e. क्र as "half ka" and "ra".
>
It awfully sounds li
> showing beyond doubt that it's rendering time adjustment.
These are called ligatures it seems:
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature
"Unicode maintains that ligaturing is a presentation issue rather than a
character definition issue" ... " the use of the special Unicode liga
> > > Isn't it strange to leave such core things as font rendering to
> > > applications rather than them being at system level? Can't there be a
> > > common system-wide component to do that?
> >
> > I think this is more to do with fonts. In konsole when I select the
> > font, not even 10% of
On Friday 15 January 2010 21:57:27 Mayuresh wrote:
> Isn't it strange to leave such core things as font rendering to
> applications rather than them being at system level? Can't there be a
> common system-wide component to do that?
I think this is more to do with fonts. In konsole when I selec
For an example of the issue I am trying to understand, try typing the word
शुक्रवार (Marathi for Friday in case you can't see devanagari properly) in
devanagari.
You can see the applications like word processors, email editors, browsers
etc. (most of them) render the word properly.
However ot
