Could be done with Graphite also I think. K ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Peter Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 6:44 PM Subject: Re: Back to Hebrew, was OT:darn'd fools
> At 03:33 PM 7/29/2003, Peter Kirk wrote: > > >>Fonts don't get that clever. > > > >Probably not. Do they have any option to set a flag like "the last > >character was a vowel" which can then be tested when the next character is > >painted? If so there is a chance of detecting this efficiently without > >having to be too clever. > > This couldn't be done in a font, but could be done in a rendering engine > like Uniscribe, which keeps track of characters. Font lookups work entirely > in glyph space, so their only connection to characters is via the font cmap > table. > > John Hudson > > Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com > Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The sight of James Cox from the BBC's World at One, > interviewing Robin Oakley, CNN's man in Europe, > surrounded by a scrum of furiously scribbling print > journalists will stand for some time as the apogee of > media cannibalism. > - Emma Brockes, at the EU summit > >
