2015-04-14 15:17 GMT+02:00 Arthur Reutenauer < [email protected]>:
> > The problem is that AFAIK the Indic scripts are not yet implemented in > > luatex. > > Actually it is, at least for Devanagari. This is fairly recent (2-3 > years). > I did not know about it, I asked Hans Hagen when preparing this book: http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz/bharat.php > > > The dotted ring is not a part of the glyph. the Unicode shaper > > (HarfBuzz in XeTeX) knows that visarga is a dependent vowel (matra) and > > since a consonant is missing, it takes the dotted ring from the font (it > > should exist as a glyph per Microsoft's recommendation). > > That's interesting, thanks for the explanation. But Manfred doesn't > want LuaTeX to produce the same output as XeTeX, he wants it the other > way round. What you're saying implies that it's not really possible > with a conformant font. > > > I have quite a lot of texts in Hindi, if you develop such a shaper in > lua, > > I can offer testing. > I think it is rather a matter of a shaper. The dotted ring should be present in the font and the shaper should place it instead of the missing consonant. I understand the display of a single matra without anything added is important in textbooks. > > You should get in touch with Hans and others on the ConTeXt list. > > Arthur > > Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex >
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