At 01:32 PM 12/17/2002, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
Steve Hartwell -- who has worked with Peter in the past on Tibetan implementation for Apple -- and I met two people from Founders at the Microsoft OpenType seminar in August. Their understanding of Tibetan seemed to be heavily influenced by preconceptions based on Chinese scripts (including setting the glyphs on fixed ideographic widths) and ignored the nature of the Indic scripts that influenced the development of Tibetan. Ironically, considering this Chinese proposal based on the Founders system, the representatives we met with very quickly understood the value of the OpenType glyph substitution and positioning that Steve explained to them, and immediately saw the value of this technology in handling Tibetan stack formation. So it is possible that while this new proposal might find support for reasons of backwards compatibility and handling of existing data, Founders themselves might begin to treat Tibetan as the complex script it is.Peter Lofting asked:> Presumedly the present proposal of 900+ stacks is a maturation of the > same system. And the claim for universality is based on it being able > to typeset everything they have published to-date. It is based on the Founders system software, as Michael mentioned.
John Hudson
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