13 Jun
2010
13 Jun
'10
7:19 p.m.
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:15:35PM +0300, Khaled Hosny wrote:
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 09:07:55PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
As Khaled mentioned ... are these proper otf fonts or do they rely on specific features in the microsoft engine?
Most opentype features are quite generic and should work ok but if something special is needed more info is needed.
IIRC, there is a bit of engine level glyph reordering involved with Indic rendering.
Here is a tugboat article with more details: http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb23-1/rajkumar.pdf Though it might not be up to date, but it gives a good overall idea about the issue. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer