On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 07:37:00PM +0200, Zdenek Wagner wrote: > 2011/10/28 Khaled Hosny <khaledho...@eglug.org>: > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 05:57:20PM +0200, Zdenek Wagner wrote: > > I don't know much about Indic scripts, all I know is that we have no > > special code for Indic shaping, so if things work then it works because > > it relies on generic OpenType features that require no special handling > > from the engine. > > > Sorry for the noise, I was not careful enough to look and forgot that > I see the XeLaTeX result, not lualatex. The rendering is not correct > and when I tried a real Hindi text (a few poems) it looks really > terribly. I know the rules for Devanagari but do not know where to > plug them in. My knowledge of luatex is almost zero, I have just > passed Taco's lua tutorial last year on CM at Brejlov. Lua as a > language will not be difficult for me (I already know Algol, PL/I, C, > C++, Perl, PHP, Pascal, Java, Tcl), I just have to learn lua's TeX > interface.
I think it would not be hard to convince Hans to write the code once he is given a clear specification (but that would require familiarity with OpenType and how it handles Indic shaping as well) and someone who can do the testing. Regards, Khaled -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
