Re: Transliterating font

From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Mon Nov 10 2003 - 02:11:22 EST

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    At 09:01 PM 11/9/2003, Chris Jacobs wrote:

    >I tried to make Open Type tables like that for the Zigan Trad font, but I
    >did not get it working.
    >How do you do the n g -> ng ligature?
    >You cannot just use <liga> because n g h should become n gh, not ng h, and
    >there will not yet be much support for <clig>.
    >
    >But I guess this should move to another mailing list. Which one?

    The OpenType list: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/otlist.htm

    You don't necessarily need to wait for <clig> support: you can put
    contextual lookups in other features such as <ccmp>, <rlig> etc.

    John Hudson

    Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
    Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com

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