On 13-6-2010 9:50, Khaled Hosny wrote:
So, what we have here is that ConTeXt has no special knowledge about Indic scripts, and thus it will not apply the feature properly according the linguistic rules. So, instead of waiting for a "more modern font to come along" (which unlikely to happen any time soon, giving how much the industry have invested into OpenType, and the apparent failure of AAT), just try to reach more people in the Indic community and come out with a clear specification and tests that Hans can implement.
from the ms pages it looks like we should split the chars (sequences) into components and after that the oft features can be applied; as the spec is somewhat fuzzy i'll just wait till precise specs are given Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------