I suspect that instead of havind an Hindi ligatutizer it would make more sense
to use the OTF tables in the font. This way, any ligatures in any languages
would work as long as the font supported them. It's an interesting project but
not really a trivial one.
Paulo
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> From: 1T3XT info [mailto:i...@1t3xt.info]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 4:39 PM
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> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Why something like
> ArabicLigaturizer will not work for Indian Scripts like Hindi
> , Tamil and Others.
>
> RKVS Raman wrote:
> > Character change their
> > forms based on the characters next to them and sometimes
> join to form
> > a different ligature which is only defined in the font's
> substitution
> > tables. Since iText does not use any intelligence from the
> > substitution tables, it will miserably fail at creating conjunct
> > forms.
>
> I have looked at Indic ligatures a long time ago (in 2005),
> but I don't know Hindi and I didn't understand the complex rules
> for making ligatures. After consulting somebody at the Faculty of
> Literature specialized in Hindi, I also realized that it was very
> different from Arabic.
>
> > Can Bruno tell me what can i do to make iText support ligature
> > substitutions from font.
>
> I don't know what to look for in the font.
> Maybe if you could give me some examples:
> a sequence of bytes (original form) and then the ligaturized version.
> Please explain where I can find the info to replace the original bytes
> with the ligaturized ones.
>
> URLs to websites are welcome too. I did some research in 2005,
> but most of the sites were too complex for me (they assumed plenty
> of knowledge about Indic languages).
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