On 24/09/2004 17:59, Mike Ayers wrote:
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I should also point out that Peter, like many advocates of
glyph composition, seems to believe that this would be an easier
path. This would probably be true in the end, but along the way is
much, much more work. Ironically, part of that work would probably
include assemblage of the very database of precomposed glyphs that he
argued against - so that the data for composition of each individual
composed glyph (deformation, position, magnification, etc.) can be
generated and checked. Yes, it would be a monumental achievement, but
a pretty cool one, all said and done.
I should point out in return that I am not advocating glyph composition
for CJK-type scripts, but for scripts like Hebrew in which fairly simple
positioning rules can be used, rules which have already been
successfully implemented in OpenType fonts like SBL Hebrew.
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