Re: Fwd: Re: Transcoding Tamil in the presence of markup

[Mark E. Shoulson]

On 12/07/03 07:25, Peter Jacobi wrote:

[..]  Display engines
need to do a better job of applying style to individual reordrant
glyphs, that's all.
   

I fully agree with this, Do you know any display engine which is capable
of this?
I also agree, but I point out that the sufficiently perverse could come 
up with some pretty tough examples.  Applying color is a pretty benign 
style, but what if I wanted a boldface circumflex on a normal letter?  
Or even more obnoxious, a 10-point circumflex on a an 8-point letter?  
These could be tricky to compute.

Of course, "Garbage In, Garbage Out" is probably a good answer to this: 
if you ask the system to do bizarre things, it's your own fault (while 
applying color is not quite so bizarre).

~mark