[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >This was one of the basic >design criteria in order to ensure that support for a script could be added >by building a font using tools assessible to people with less that than >C-programming skills and without requiring any re-write of software. > Actually, the goal of "easily add shapping for a new orthography" and the goal of "do not duplicate in all fonts what really belongs to an orthography" are not as incompatible as we paint them. For example, there could a be plug-in mechanism (and those plug-ins could be written in a special-purpose language) for Uniscribe.
Eric.
