At 07:57 -0700 2002-06-03, John H. Jenkins wrote:
>On Wednesday, March 6, 2002, at 05:40 AM, Charlie Jolly wrote:
>
>>Just interested in cross-platform issues.
>>
>>Is it possible to produce one OpenType font for a complex script e.g. Hindi
>>that works with Uniscribe on Windows and ATSUI on the Mac? Or does the Mac
>>version need to be geared towards AAT?
>>
>
>ATSUI uses AAT. There is no technical reason why a font cannot
>contain both the data needed for OT to work on Windows and ATSUI/AAT
>on the Mac.
But it certainly is difficult to learn how to do this with the tools
currently available.
>Uniscribe doesn't exist on the Mac. MS Office X converts Unicode
>text to runs of older Mac script systems and does not use ATSUI. It
>is therefore limited in the extent to which it supports Unicode.
Double-plus ungood.
-- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
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