On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:19:50PM +0300, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:15:35PM +0300, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 09:07:55PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > > > As Khaled mentioned ... are these proper otf fonts or do they rely > > > on specific features in the microsoft engine? > > > > > > Most opentype features are quite generic and should work ok but if > > > something special is needed more info is needed. > > > > IIRC, there is a bit of engine level glyph reordering involved with > > Indic rendering. > > Here is a tugboat article with more details: > http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb23-1/rajkumar.pdf > > Though it might not be up to date, but it gives a good overall idea > about the issue.
And MS page: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otfntdev/indicot/features.aspx -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : [email protected] / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
