Idris Samawi Hamid said this at Sat, 9 Apr 2005 19:27:21 -0600: >On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 00:22:31 +0100, Adam Lindsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > >> But wait, where are you coming from? Are your source fonts really Minion >> .pfbs, or are they from OpenType? With OpenType, you can use some nice >> TeXFont stuff to select the features (OSF, SC, alternates) without having >> to draw from two arbitrary encodings. > >I am very interested in the Open Type trickery. I have been wrestling for >quite some time about the problem of multiple accents over ligatures in >Arabic. I can do it in Aleph but the present procedure (due originally to >Yannis) is much too slow and cumbersome, especially when dealing with huge >fonts (my present virtual ovf has about 10,000 characters!). I finally >found a solution that OpenType might help with--multiple glyphs for one >character. I can implement this without OpenType, but OpenType opens the >possiblity for word searches in Acrobat of Arabic text, something that is >well-nigh impossible with the usual pfb approach.
I have to admit that last issue is one that I've stepped lightly around. >While we will still need huge fonts, the processing of complicated accents >should be much faster with the approach I have in mind (smaller otp's and >ovf's). It sounds a bit tricky with the eTeX line, because of the 256-character- per-TeX-font limit. Not necessarily impossible, but certainly contortionate. I'm led to think about XeTeX--a fair number of people on the list are happy with the AAT/OpenType support they get with some very sophisticated Arabic fonts. And when you consider the educational price of a Mac mini, you're still way below the price of some software packages... :) > Do you think TeXFont can be tweaked to generate ovf's and ofm's as >well? From my experience, it's certainly possible. For it to be done, it needs a confluence of time, motivation, and expertise! -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
