From: Khaled Hosny (khaledhosny@eglug.org)
Date: Thu Jul 29 2010 - 01:47:18 CDT
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:37:28AM -0700, Asmus Freytag wrote:
> On 7/28/2010 10:09 AM, Murray Sargent wrote:
> >Contextual rendering is getting to be more common thanks to
> >adoption of OpenType features. For example, both MS Publisher 2010
> >and MS Word 2010 support various contextually dependent OpenType
> >features at the user's discretion. The choice of glyph for U+002E
> >could be chosen according to an OpenType style.
> I know that the technology exists that (in principle) can overcome
> an early limitation of 1:1 relation between characters and glyphs in
> a single font. I also know that this technology has been implemented
> for certain (but not all) types of mappings that are not 1:1.
> >It's worth remembering that plain text is a format that was introduced due to the limitations of early computers. Books have always been rendered with at least some degree of rich text. And due to the complexity of Unicode, even Unicode plain text often needs to be rendered with more than one font.
> However, the question I raised here is whether such mechanisms have
> been implemented to date for FULL STOP. Which implementation makes
> the required context analysis to determine whether 002E is part of a
> number during layout? If it does make this determination, which
> OpenType feature does it invoke? Which font supports this particular
> OpenType feature?
I have few fonts where I implemented a 'locl' OpenType feature that maps
European to Arabic digits, and contextual substitution feature that
replaces the dot with Arabic decimal separator when it comes between two
Arabic numbers, so I think it is doable.
Regards,
Khaled
-- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer
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