From: John Hudson ([email protected])
Date: Thu Jul 12 2007 - 15:32:54 CDT
Philippe Verdy wrote:
> These symbols are currently not listed exhaustively, and this does not help
> making the notations easily interoperable, as many font designers will
> forget to implement them, by ignorance of the expected needs and lack of
> interaction between those designers that have implemented something.
As discussed previously with regard to the Lao and Thai generic bases, font developers are
only part of the solution. I can put glyph positioning features in fonts easily enough,
but it does no good if layout engines separate the background characters into different
glyph runs.
John Hudson
-- Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Gulf Islands, BC [email protected] We say our understanding measures how things are, and likewise our perception, since that is how we find our way around, but in fact these do not measure. They are measured. -- Aristotle, Metaphysics
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