Re: [OT] Slight Font Confusion

2002-03-07 Thread Peter_Constable
On 03/06/2002 04:57:07 PM Yaap Raaf wrote: I have the impression that somehow AAT fonts are less dependent on ATSUI than OT fonts are on Uniscribe. In fact I am a bit amazed that with all the tables and 'intelligence' built into OT fonts they are so dependent on updates of Uniscribe. I do not

Re: [OT] Slight Font Confusion

2002-03-07 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Michael Everson wrote: Double-plus ungood. doubleplus ungood, IIRC. roozbeh

[OT] Slight Font Confusion

2002-03-06 Thread Charlie Jolly
Just interested in cross-platform issues. Is it possible to produce one OpenType font for a complex script e.g. Hindi that works with Uniscribe on Windows and ATSUI on the Mac? Or does the Mac version need to be geared towards AAT? also Does Adobe's CoolType basically do what Uniscribe/ATSUI

Re: [OT] Slight Font Confusion

2002-03-06 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Wednesday, March 6, 2002, at 05:40 AM, Charlie Jolly wrote: Just interested in cross-platform issues. Is it possible to produce one OpenType font for a complex script e.g. Hindi that works with Uniscribe on Windows and ATSUI on the Mac? Or does the Mac version need to be geared

Re: [OT] Slight Font Confusion

2002-03-06 Thread John Wilcock
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 07:57:08 -0700, John H. Jenkins wrote: MS Office X converts Unicode text to runs of older Mac script systems and does not use ATSUI. It is therefore limited in the extent to which it supports Unicode. Is there a good reason why a program which only runs on OS X would

Re: [OT] Slight Font Confusion

2002-03-06 Thread Michael Everson
At 07:57 -0700 2002-06-03, John H. Jenkins wrote: On Wednesday, March 6, 2002, at 05:40 AM, Charlie Jolly wrote: Just interested in cross-platform issues. Is it possible to produce one OpenType font for a complex script e.g. Hindi that works with Uniscribe on Windows and ATSUI on the Mac? Or

Re: [OT] Slight Font Confusion

2002-03-06 Thread Peter_Constable
On 03/06/2002 06:40:07 AM Charlie Jolly wrote: Is it possible to produce one OpenType font for a complex script e.g. Hindi that works with Uniscribe on Windows and ATSUI on the Mac? Or does the Mac version need to be geared towards AAT? Currently, the Mac (OS X) can read the glyph outlines,

Re: [OT] Slight Font Confusion

2002-03-06 Thread Yaap Raaf
At 15:57 +0100 2002.03.06, John H. Jenkins wrote: MS Office X converts Unicode text to runs of older Mac script systems and does not use ATSUI. It is therefore limited in the extent to which it supports Unicode. Is the conclusion correct that MS Office X uses one or several KCHR