At 07:57 -0700 2002-06-03, John H. Jenkins wrote: >On Wednesday, March 6, 2002, at 05:40 AM, Charlie Jolly wrote: > >>Just interested in cross-platform issues. >> >>Is it possible to produce one OpenType font for a complex script e.g. Hindi >>that works with Uniscribe on Windows and ATSUI on the Mac? Or does the Mac >>version need to be geared towards AAT? >> > >ATSUI uses AAT. There is no technical reason why a font cannot >contain both the data needed for OT to work on Windows and ATSUI/AAT >on the Mac.
But it certainly is difficult to learn how to do this with the tools currently available. >Uniscribe doesn't exist on the Mac. MS Office X converts Unicode >text to runs of older Mac script systems and does not use ATSUI. It >is therefore limited in the extent to which it supports Unicode. Double-plus ungood. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
