Sukhi Venkat (TnQ) wrote: > Gora Mohanty wrote Thu, 2 Feb 2006 05:47:39 +0000 (GMT): > >> Yeah, but that is hardly enough to implement an AAT font, let alone a >> rendering engine. Nor do I see from that article a reason why this is >> advantageous to OpenType, something which Apple promised to support but >> apparently does not adequately do so. I was approached by someone who >> wanted to implement Indic fonts in AAT, and he uses a trial-and-error >> method based on copying rules from existing fonts, which is a rather >> laborious and error-prone method for Indic fonts. Currently, I see no >> reason for the open-source world to try to support AAT. >> > > You may be right. I am in the early stages of my education about fonts > and the cavalier way the renderer works with them. > >> Well, if the particular representation is still in use, the bug could >> be fixed. Could you submit a more complete report, including the set of >> Unicode input characters, a picture of the expected output, and, if >> possible, a picture of what you actually get from Pango, ICU, or QT? > >> It would be great if you could list these by the Unicode input >> sequence, and maybe someone can take a look at them. It would be >> even better if you would be willing to help out in putting together >> a comprehensive set of conjuncts, and a complete glyph repository >> for Tamil. > > I will do that! > > May be we will continue the discussion directly, off the scribus > list, since others may not find it very interesting!
But I'm interested! :) Still, maybe the discussion is not specifically germane to Scribus, so if you do decide to take the discussion "off-list" could you please include my email address in the loop? Thanks! Steven
