Peter Kirk wrote:
On 30/06/2004 11:18, busmanus wrote:
Peter Kirk wrote:
If you prefer to use precomposed characters
I need to use them at the moment, because my word
processor does not support the trickier aspects
of rendering combined glyphs (e.g. making use of
the "corner points", etc.). I can't even make it
use a precomposed ligature for a letter+combining
diacritical combination. Can you recommend anything
more advanced in this respect (if it doesn't qualify
as an ad)?
I see from your message source that you are using
Windows 98.
Actually the machine I use for typing Classical Greek has
Linux (Red Hat 9) running with the version of Open Office
shipped on the install CD-s.
But your system will not do a good job of rendering decomposed
characters. It will neither combine them programmatically nor replace
them with precomposed character glyphs.
This is exactly my problem. But it's nice to hear that Office 2003
at least finally caught up with this issue. This may be the right
motive for open source tools to follow the example.
Does anyone know of a present Linux program that can cope with
such a task? (I understand that Open Type/True Type fonts
themselves already have the required functionality, even if
it isn't used by all font designers.)
Regards,
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