Hello. Around here there are some Indian people whose language uses Devanagari (but there would be similar issues with other scripts), and some Sanskrit and Hindi scholars as well. I wonder how many would accept to read what is below (produced by LuaLaTeX), instead of किमिति.
Best wishes, Yves
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Le 1 août 2012 à 15:54, Zdenek Wagner a écrit : > 2012/8/1 Ulrike Fischer <ne...@nililand.de>: >> Am Wed, 1 Aug 2012 11:58:31 +0100 schrieb Philip TAYLOR: >> >>>> Well you only confirm my impression: That quite a lot of scripts >>>> never felt the pressure put on us by the movable type printing. >> >>> Is that not good ? Would Chinese calligraphy look anywhere near >>> as beautiful if its glyph forms had been forcibly coerced into >>> meeting the constraints imposed by movable type printing ? >> >> Sure, but people who not only want to look at glyphs and admire >> their beauty but also use them to communicate through print, >> websites, mail, twitter, sms ... musst accept that technical >> restrictions and problems musst be taken into accout too. >> >> Scripts have always been shaped by the material (you only need to >> look at Cuneiform). And when you switch the material and tool used >> to write e.g. from clay to paper or to computer this will always >> have an impact back on the script. >> > LuaTeX can be considered a flavour of TeX thus if XeTeX can load a > font and use the glyphs as they are now and compose them to form a > word, I do not understand why a change in the script is needed. LuaTeX > is not able to form a word from Devanagari glyphs. MS Office, > OpenOffice, modern web browser can do it, so why should we discard the > very basics of Indic orthography a create the new one just because > nobody has implemented the Indic scripts in lua so far? And discard > all Indic fonts and create new ones that will suit the new > orthography? > >> -- >> Ulrike Fischer >> http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/ >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: >> http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > > > > -- > Zdeněk Wagner > http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ > http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
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