2009/3/31 Anshuman Pandey <[email protected]>: > > On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Zdenek Wagner wrote: > >> 2009/3/31 Anshuman Pandey <[email protected]>: >>> >>> Some time ago, I created new glyphs for the Velthuis font in order to >>> bring it into synch with the Devanagari character set in Unicode 5.0. >>> >>> It is fairly simple to create a basic OpenType version of the Velthuis >>> font. I could do it if anyone is interested. >>> >> This would be nice. I think this is the next logical step, it would be >> useful for XeTeX as well as for luatex. I have been plannig to do it >> myself but I've had no time yet to learn how to do it. In the >> preprocessor we have the @sanskrit, @hindi and @modernhindi modes that >> switch on and off some conjuncts. XeTeX supports language features if >> they are present in the font. I hope it might be possible to switch >> conjuncts on anf off by means of these features. > > OpenType also provides us with a way to handle the variant forms (Bombay > and Calcutta style) of various characters. >
> Best, > Anshu > > > _______________________________________________ > Devnag-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sarovar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devnag-general > -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz _______________________________________________ Devnag-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sarovar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devnag-general
