li bo said on Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 06:37:58PM +0800,: > Does it mean if i want to support Devanagari scripts by using truetype font, > following must be done. > 1. A higher-level layout engine like Pango to layout the text. > 2. As truetype font can be considered as a kind of Opentype font, OpenType > Layout tables（GSUB, GPOS）can be used to handle Devanagari scripts.
While answers to both questions seem to be "yes", any reason why you want to create your own text layout application / library? There are already enough libraries which do this out there. -- Mahesh T. Pai || Buy Free Software -- It gives you freedom!
