On 6/3/13 19:19, Bobby de Vos wrote:
On 2013-03-05 17:58, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
The problem is: Free Sans has both deva and dev2 tables. HarfBuzz correctly
chooses dev2. Now, we then proceed to find the base. For that, we check
whether "Virama,RA" matches the blwf feature. It doesn't. As such we take RA
to be the syllable base, and things go down from there.
Slightly off topic (for which I apologize) what tables should an Indic
font designer be using for fonts that will be used with Harfbuzz,
Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 8), iOS, OS X, Android, InDesign, etc? Certainly
I can see putting in new spec tables (ie dev2). Would it be recommended
to also add old spec tables (ie deva) as well?
If you want to support as many as possible of the targets mentioned
above, then you need to provide old-spec tables as well - Uniscribe on
XP, for example, doesn't know about the new tables, nor (IIRC) does
Adobe's engine.
(I don't recall exactly what's supported by the various versions of OS X
- until the last couple of major versions, it had little or no Indic
OpenType shaping support. Of course, AAT support was there.)
But obviously you shouldn't simply copy the same features and lookups
into both old- and new-spec script tags; the specs are different, after all!
The OpenType list might be a better place for a question like this, btw.
JK
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