on 11/22/00 4:19 AM, Marco Cimarosti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- AAT/ATSUI (see in http:/www.apple.com).
Most of the "intelligence" is in the font itself, which also includes a
state machine to operate substitution. The behavior of the smart fonts may
be influenced by external user settings.
Dear all,
a lot was said in this thread about intelligent rendering mechanisms, such
as fonts implementing automatic glyph substitution and things like that. The
notion appears to be quite commonplace to the experts, whereas I (being an
amateur) must admit it seemed just like a utopic dream to
Lukas Pietsch wrote:
a lot was said in this thread about intelligent rendering
mechanisms, [...]
I figure that people are mostly thinking of the technology
called "Open Type", is that right?
Right, but quite partial. There are several major technologies for rendering
"complex Unicode
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 04:19:42AM -0800, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
- Omega (http://omega-system.sourceforge.net).
Built on top of the old and glorious TeX typesetting system. It may becaome
(or already is?) the standard for Unicode in Linux.
I've never seen Omega used under Linux, nor have I
John Hudson wrote:
At present, polytonic Greek is not supported in Uniscribe,
I suspect because no one has determined that it needs to be.
So, would you agree that it does need to be? Keeping in mind what Kenneth
Whistler wrote:
Not if the fonts they use map capital letter + ypogegrammeni
At 08:05 AM 11/22/2000 -0800, Lukas Pietsch wrote:
Mind that the case-mapping question we were discussing is just one minor
aspect of the issue; the main task is much more general, and at the same
time more straightforward (If we leave aside the issue of automatic case
conversion and the fancy
Let me add a little to what Marco has written:
- Open Type itself (see in http:/www.microsoft.com).
The "font-specific intelligence" is in the font itself; the "generic
script
intelligence" is in a software component called UniScribe.
OpenType provides partial support for complex script
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, John Hudson wrote:
At 08:05 AM 11/22/2000 -0800, Lukas Pietsch wrote:
By the way, I wouldn't agree with Kenneth that it wasn't a good idea to have
the precomposed characters in Unicode in the first place. I'm very glad they
are there, since, as we see, the beautiful
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