From: Patrick Andries (patrick.andries@xcential.com)
Date: Tue Aug 23 2005 - 18:14:57 CDT
John Hudson a écrit :
>
> I said that there is no mechanism within OpenType to say 'take this
> sequence ABC and rearrange it to ACB', whereas there is such a
> mechanism in AAT and Graphite. Sure you can perform some elaborate
> multi-stage contextual lookups in an OT font to produce something that
> looks like ACB, but this would be slow to process and dependent on the
> application supporting all the lookup types involved (not currently a
> reliable assumption).
Well, how about sometimes betting on this slow process rather than
waiting much longer for Microsoft to correct or add a new shaping engine
(any Mandombe Uniscribe shaping engine coming up soon ?). What I most
regret is the fact that it is impossible -- as far as I know -- to add a
third-party shaping engine to Uniscribe. (I hope I'm wrong and it is
possible to add one at one's own risks.)
P. A.
Our Father in Kikongo (Latin/mandombé) with OpenType font and quite a
lot of strange substitutions
:<http://www.hapax.qc.ca/pdf/notre-p%e8re-kikongo.pdf> (draft)
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