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Subject: RE: Transcoding Tamil in the presence of markup (was Re: Coloured
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Kenneth Whistler
>
> >> Unicode doesn't prevent styling
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Peter Jacobi wrote:
> It would be most interesting, if someone can point out a wordprocessor
> or even a rendering library (shouldn't Pango be the solution to
> everything?),
> which enables styling of individual Tamil letters.
I think Pango's attributed
string (
http://de
On 08/12/2003 16:17, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
...
Having an 'invisible consonant' to call for rendering of the vowel sign
in isolation (and without the dotted circle), would also help the limited
number of cases where the styled single character is needed - but in
a rather hackish way.
That i
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Kenneth Whistler
>> Unicode doesn't prevent styling, of course. But having 'logical' order
>> instead of 'visual' makes it a hard task for the application and the
>> renderer.
>> This is witnessed by the thin-spread support for this.
>
>Yes...
Ken conceded th
Peter Jacobi said:
> Unicode doesn't prevent styling, of course. But having 'logical' order
> instead of 'visual' makes it a hard task for the application and the
> renderer.
> This is witnessed by the thin-spread support for this.
Yes, but having visual order instead of logical order makes
*othe
Dear Peter Constable, Peter Kirk, All,
"Peter Constable" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> SIL's Graphite definitely *will* permit exactly what you want to do
> (assuming the font is properly designed). [...]
Thanks for this clarification. Having tried SIL WorldPad with Tamil
Graphite
font, and not
Peter Jacobi
> To re-iterate - in the original post, the string in question did
> consist of side by side characters, not ligated in any font known
> to me. And the legacy Tamil enocings have for obvious reasons no
> problem to style any single character.
This specific case is not the one of "side
On 08/12/2003 10:16, Peter Jacobi wrote:
...
So, to promote Unicode usage, in a community, which partly sees
ISCII unification as a conspiracy against the Dravidian languages,
it would be very helpful to demonstrate, that everything that can
be done with the legacy encodings, can also be done usin
Dear All,
I find it rather disappointing, that the the question of coloring
the horizontal line of 't' attracts more attention, than the
original question.
To re-iterate - in the original post, the string in question did
consist of side by side characters, not ligated in any font known
to me. And
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