At 09:41 -0600 2002-07-02, John H. Jenkins wrote: >Alas, but that's technically impossible. Both OT and AAT (I'm not >sure about Graphite) require that single characters map to single >glyphs, which are then processed.
Hm? How do you handle the decomposed sequence A + COMBINING ACUTE? Surely that is a sequence of characters mapping to a single glyph. Just goes to show that I don't make proper Unicode fonts yet because the tools just aren't up to snuff. >(In OT, of course, you are also supposed to do some preprocessing in >character space, but that doesn't solve this problem.) It would be >nice to have a cmap format which maps multiple characters to single >glyphs initially. I always thought there was. Now I'm really confused as to how I would make a complex Indic syllable. >The way we deal with this is to have the ligatures with the ZWJ >inserted as part of a ligature table which is on by default and >which isn't revealed to the UI so that the user can't turn them off. I am not sure I understand, but then I haven't been able to make use of the AAT ligature tables yet. ;-) -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
