* Lars Marius Garshol
|
| We just need a single display function that does glyph shaping and
| no more. Is that available somewhere?
* Deborah Goldsmith
|
| It's possible to do that with the direct access API.
Excellent! That's precisely what we need. (Thank you.)
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Lars Marius Garshol, Ont
On Wednesday, August 28, 2002, at 01:55 PM, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
> We just need a single display function that does glyph shaping and no
> more. Is that available somewhere?
>
It's possible to do that with the direct access API.
Deborah Goldsmith
Manager, Fonts & Unicode
Apple Computer, In
* Lars Marius Garshol
|
| That function also applies the bidirectional algorithm to the text
| it displays. However, since the application needs to do all manner
| of strange formatting (colouring, interspersed images, first-line
| specials, first-letter specials, base-line adjustments, ...) it
|
On Wednesday, August 28, 2002, at 04:09 AM, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
> That function also applies the bidirectional algorithm to the text it
> displays. However, since the application needs to do all manner of
> strange formatting (colouring, interspersed images, first-line
> specials, first-let
Sorry for the off-topic comment, but Deborah Goldsmith's comment about the
value of info in an e-mail seems to me to have an obvious answer:
On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 04:01 PM, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
> Thank you very much for this. This kind of succinct no-nonsense
> summary is wor
* Deborah Goldsmith
|
| By default, RTL scripts are displayed in compliance with the Unicode
| bidirectional algorithm.
* Lars Marius Garshol
|
| Ouch. That may work in some situations, but for a web browser that
| can never work, since the display mechanism will never have enough
| information
At 09:23 +0200 2002-08-28, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
>| By default, RTL scripts are displayed in compliance with the Unicode
>| bidirectional algorithm.
>
>Ouch. That may work in some situations, but for a web browser that can
>never work, since the display mechanism will never have enough
>info
* Lars Marius Garshol
|
| Thank you very much for this. This kind of succinct no-nonsense
| summary is worth its weight in gold. (Collecting the same
| information through the normal sources might easily consume weeks.)
* Deborah Goldsmith
|
| Hmmm. Since it was sent electronically, I'm not qui
John,
Since you're dealing with Polytonic Greek, I suppose your original file
is a plain text Unicode.
First of all, the issue with TextEdit showing GB 18030 over Unicode
seems to be a bug in the application.
The logic here is simply selecting a character encoding that can
represent all the c
On Sat Aug 24 2002 - 13:18:08 EDT Deborah Goldsmith wrote:
>- Keyboards may be installed by dragging in the Finder to
>/Library/Keyboard Layouts/, ~/Library/Keyboard Layouts/, or
>/Network/Library/Keyboard Layouts/, then logging out and logging back
>in.
This is excellent news. I have just succ
On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 04:01 PM, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
> Thank you very much for this. This kind of succinct no-nonsense
> summary is worth its weight in gold. (Collecting the same information
> through the normal sources might easily consume weeks.)
Hmmm. Since it was sent electron
* Deborah Goldsmith
|
| As promised, here is a very quick summary of the high points (as
| best I can remember without my reference materials at hand):
| [...]
Thank you very much for this. This kind of succinct no-nonsense
summary is worth its weight in gold. (Collecting the same information
th
At 17:56 +0200 25/08/2002, Bertrand Laidain wrote:
>I'm waiting for the documentation for keyboards, is there a plan to
>include in the develloper tools a tool like Resedit for X to edit the
>keyboards ?
My understanding is that while a graphical editor would be nice, it's
not the highest prior
John H. Jenkins wrote :
>Keyboards can be straight XML now. You don't any special tools to edit
>them. It's very nice that way.
Michael Everson wrote :
>My understanding is that while a graphical editor would be nice, it's
>not the highest priority for the development team. Editing the hard
On Sunday, August 25, 2002, at 09:56 AM, Bertrand Laidain wrote:
> I'm waiting for the documentation for keyboards, is there a plan to
> include in the develloper tools a tool like Resedit for X to edit the
> keyboards ?
>
Keyboards can be straight XML now. You don't any special tools to edit
This is great new, I just finish to install Jaguar and it seems
promising. I just found a little bug :
Lucida Grande which has the Hebrew (Yiddish) character HEBREW LIGATURE
YIDDISH VAV YOD - 05F1 bad written, you read yod vav and you should read
(from left to right) vav yod (like the name says),
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