From: Patrick Andries (Patrick.Andries@xcential.com)
Date: Mon Apr 26 2004 - 19:53:23 EDT
Raymond Mercier wrote:
>
>> John Hudson writes:
>
>
>>> Forget dead keys. Dead keys are only useful if you can perform a
>>> character level mapping
>>> to a precomposed character code. As such, it is a mechanism that is
>>> effectively useless
>>> for composing sequences that need to be rendered as either
>>> dynamically composed
>>> combinations (e.g. using OpenType GPOS mark attachment) or unencoded
>>> ligatures at the
>>> glyph level (e.g. using OpenType GSUB many-to-one substitution).
>>> Rather than having an
>>> 'acute dead key', it is better to simply have a combining acute key,
>>> and enter the sequence as
>>> <Icircumflex, acute>
>>
>
>> This is new to me. Where do I learn more ?
>
If you read French, as you name seems to suggest, may I recommend :
http://www.oreilly.fr/catalogue/fontes-et-codages.html
(not above criticism but very useful and interesting)
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