On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Rajeev J Sebastian wrote:
> Hello all, > > I am developing a Malayalam font for use in OpenOffice.org 1.1.3 and KDE. This > font also includes latin characters and diacritical marks for the purpose of > indic transliteration. The problem is, I need 2 characters (glyphs) which are > > latin small l with macron and macron below, and > latin small l with diaeresis below > > which are not available as precomposed forms in the Latin and IPA blocks in > Unicode (all the rest are available). > > Due to this, I have to use open type positioning features in the font for > these characters. Unfortunately, Openoffice.org doesn't render the > positioning properly, and instead, displays the base character and the mark > as if they were 2 characters (ie, one after the another). > > How does Openoffice do the shaping of latin with diacritical marks ? Does it > use the GPOS tables in open type fonts ? > > In Qt, Latin diacritical marks are rendered using a heuristic, which allows > the positioning of the marks (although not very accurately) without the use > of anchors. However, this seems not to be implemented in OOo. Note that at this time, there are issues with glyph rendering of Indic scripts that HDU and I are attempting to track down. It causes characters to not be combined correctly and not look like just one character onscreen. This may affect more than just Indic scripts. See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=157813 Dan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
