On 14-6-2010 3:21, Michael Saunders wrote:
OpenType (just ignore file extension for the moment) is a rather dump
standard in the sense that it requires the engine to have some knowledge
about the writing system at hand.
So, what we have here is that ConTeXt has no special knowledge about
On 11-6-2010 9:14, Michael Saunders wrote:
My first experiments aren't going well. For example:
using the free font, BNBDOT0N.ttf, from Deutsche Welle here:
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,3219221,00.html
next time make a simple example .. you caniidentity features with
mtxrun
next time make a simple example .. you caniidentity features with
mtxrun --script font --info --list --file BNBDOT0N.ttf
anyhow, only one features is applied. It lookslike some gpos feature is not
used.
\usemodule[fnt-20]
\definefontfeature
[indic]
[mode=node,analyze=yes,
On 13-6-2010 6:58, Michael Saunders wrote:
next time make a simple example .. you caniidentity features with
mtxrun --script font --info --list --file BNBDOT0N.ttf
anyhow, only one features is applied. It lookslike some gpos feature is not
used.
\usemodule[fnt-20]
\definefontfeature
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.
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
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
As Khaled mentioned ... are these proper otf fonts or do they rely on
specific features in the microsoft engine?
They all carry the .ttf extender. Arial Unicode MS is clearly True
Type. I've seen some of the free fonts widely described as Open Type,
but they are all amateur products---maybe
On 13-6-2010 9:15, 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
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 02:29:40PM -0500, Michael Saunders wrote:
As Khaled mentioned ... are these proper otf fonts or do they rely on
specific features in the microsoft engine?
They all carry the .ttf extender. Arial Unicode MS is clearly True
Type. I've seen some of the free fonts
On 13-6-2010 9:50, Khaled Hosny wrote:
So, what we have here is that ConTeXt has no special knowledge about
Indic scripts, and thus it will not apply the feature properly according
the linguistic rules. So, instead of waiting for a more modern font to
come along (which unlikely to happen any
Hi,
On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:41:38 -0600, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
the interesting question then is .. where does one draw the line between
engine and clever fonts
contextual analysis in Arabic provides an example: init, medi, and fina
provide the gsub's, the engine has to know the
OpenType (just ignore file extension for the moment) is a rather dump
standard in the sense that it requires the engine to have some knowledge
about the writing system at hand.
...
So, what we have here is that ConTeXt has no special knowledge about
Indic scripts, and thus it will not apply
My first experiments aren't going well. For example:
using the free font, BNBDOT0N.ttf, from Deutsche Welle here:
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,3219221,00.html
and the following typescript, type-bidisha.tex:
\starttypescript [serif] [dwbangla]
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 02:14:12AM -0500, Michael Saunders wrote:
My first experiments aren't going well. For example:
AFAIK, there no Indic specific support yet, Hans will probably need more
information about Indic shaping, some test files, the expected output
etc.
Also, AFAIK, Indic support
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