[XeTeX] Contextual Ligature Problems with OT Tamil Font Converted to AAT

2011-06-19 Thread Blake Wentworth
Greetings, I have recently been using Tamil fonts sold by the font developer Xenotype Technologies, which are conversions of OpenType fonts to AAT. The aim was to allow me to use Tamil fonts other than the default InaiMathi font with Mac OS X's keyboard driver for Tamil, Murasu Anjal.

Re: [XeTeX] Contextual Ligature Problems with OT Tamil Font Converted to AAT

2011-06-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 18.06.2011 um 23:20 schrieb Blake Wentworth: I would be delighted to know where the source of the initial problem lies You could specify the renderer engine! Fontspec allows \fontspec[Renderer=AAT]{font} (other options are ICU, usable for most fonts, and Graphite, usable for

Re: [XeTeX] Contextual Ligature Problems with OT Tamil Font Converted to AAT

2011-06-19 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Peter Dyballa wrote: You could specify the renderer engine! Fontspec allows \fontspec[Renderer=AAT]{font} Is this meaningfully true for all platforms ? One of the few downsides to XeTeX is that sometimes a feature is platform-dependent yet the documentation and/or correspondence never

Re: [XeTeX] Contextual Ligature Problems with OT Tamil Font Converted to AAT

2011-06-19 Thread Herbert Schulz
On Jun 19, 2011, at 6:53 AM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Peter Dyballa wrote: You could specify the renderer engine! Fontspec allows \fontspec[Renderer=AAT]{font} Is this meaningfully true for all platforms ? One of the few downsides to XeTeX is that sometimes a

Re: [XeTeX] Contextual Ligature Problems with OT Tamil Font Converted to AAT

2011-06-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.06.2011 um 13:53 schrieb Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd): Is this meaningfully true for all platforms ? Of course not. But Blake used Apple Mail to send his message and he also mentions Mac OS X as the OS he uses, where his problems occur. So I tried to use my brain and mentioned

Re: [XeTeX] Contextual Ligature Problems with OT Tamil Font Converted to AAT

2011-06-19 Thread Herbert Schulz
On Jun 19, 2011, at 7:55 AM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Herbert Schulz wrote: Peter Dyballa wrote: You could specify the renderer engine! Fontspec allows \fontspec[Renderer=AAT]{font} Is this meaningfully true for all platforms ? One of the few downsides to XeTeX

Re: [XeTeX] Contextual Ligature Problems with OT Tamil Font Converted to AAT

2011-06-19 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Peter Dyballa wrote: Am 19.06.2011 um 13:53 schrieb Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd): Is this meaningfully true for all platforms ? Of course not. But Blake used Apple Mail to send his message and he also mentions Mac OS X as the OS he uses, where his problems occur. So I tried to use my

Re: [XeTeX] Contextual Ligature Problems with OT Tamil Font Converted to AAT

2011-06-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.06.2011 um 15:14 schrieb Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd): Yes, but your mail will be read by others (such as myself) who are unaware of either of these facts, and will then be misled into believing that it should work in their platform. The term AAT stands for Apple Advanced

Re: [XeTeX] Contextual Ligature Problems with OT Tamil Font Converted to AAT

2011-06-19 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Peter Dyballa wrote: Am 19.06.2011 um 15:14 schrieb Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd): Yes, but your mail will be read by others (such as myself) who are unaware of either of these facts, and will then be misled into believing that it should work in their platform. The term AAT stands for

Re: [XeTeX] Contextual Ligature Problems with OT Tamil Font Converted to AAT

2011-06-19 Thread Herbert Schulz
On Jun 19, 2011, at 8:58 AM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Peter Dyballa wrote: Am 19.06.2011 um 15:14 schrieb Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd): Yes, but your mail will be read by others (such as myself) who are unaware of either of these facts, and will then be misled

Re: [XeTeX] Contextual Ligature Problems with OT Tamil Font Converted to AAT

2011-06-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.06.2011 um 15:58 schrieb Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd): I am not complaining : I am asking for precision, which is another matter entirely. So, here is precision: AAT is a proprietary Mac OS X font technology from Apple (maybe doomed to die). It started as QuickDraw GX, on which

Re: [XeTeX] Contextual Ligature Problems with OT Tamil Font Converted to AAT

2011-06-19 Thread Alan Munn
On Jun 19, 2011, at 7:53 AM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Peter Dyballa wrote: You could specify the renderer engine! Fontspec allows \fontspec[Renderer=AAT]{font} Is this meaningfully true for all platforms ? One of the few downsides to XeTeX is that sometimes a feature

Re: [XeTeX] Contextual Ligature Problems with OT Tamil Font Converted to AAT

2011-06-19 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Alan Munn wrote: This is a useful and friendly list. Let's keep it that way. I had no intention of doing otherwise. I was asking for additional information, not levelling criticism. Rather than entering into a long discussion with Pete about this, perhaps you could have verified your

Re: [XeTeX] Contextual Ligature Problems with OT Tamil Font Converted to AAT

2011-06-19 Thread Martin Schröder
2011/6/19 Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk: What is a kill file ?  Another platform-specific feature, I suppose ! http://lmgtfy.com/?q=kill+filel=1 -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: