Am Wed, 1 Aug 2012 15:54:37 +0200 schrieb Zdenek Wagner: > 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?
I didn't say that "a change is needed", only that the complexity of some scripts are part of the problem: complex scripts means complex code and people who write, test, maintain, extend this code. And such people are not always available like now in the case of luatex. -- Ulrike Fischer http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/ -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex