On Sunday, 21 January 2024 00:28:42 GMT Oliver Corff via wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས།
>
> (sorry, I forgot the shad)
>
> have you tried the font TibMachUni-1.901b.ttf? It is available via
>
> package manager e.g. in Fedora 39.
>
> Can post a source file for your examples, please? I m
Hi Deri,
thank you for taking the iniative. I spent a whole weekend without computer.
Unfortunately, the font I suggested does not work either.
The problem is exemplified by the ligature rgy-. on the second line of
the original text, quite at the beginning. The base letter here is ག g,
with a s
Hi Deri
Thank you for trying out with latest unicode aware version of groff.
Would you mind to try the YagpoTibetanUni font
https://www.fontspace.com/yagpo-tibetan-sambhota-uni-font-f44981
This one gives very good rendition in Neatroff.
All fonts which I've tried were installed with Peter Scha
Hi Oliver
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། to you as well.
Thank you for such a long detailed response.
As you can see yourself, all compositions are missing, yata and rata are
placed but not supescripted or subscripted. Vowels are present but
placed not properly.
I have tried as well TibMachUni but from Arc
Hi Tom,
thank you for the detailed materials.
In my post, I only mentioned the wrong rata yata, I did not even mention
the misplaced vowels but I noticed them, of course.
Sounds like a pleasant challenge to bring Tibetan to groff: accepted!
Best regards,
Oliver.
On 21/01/2024 21:31, Tom wro
Sounds like a pleasant challenge to bring Tibetan to groff: accepted!
Thank you. Your response cheers me up.
I have few years experience in gtroff. Lately for a period of few months
I've tried ConText, and well, there is some chaos there, but it works
good. Unfortunately my mind can't really sw
Hi,
Deri already followed up the conversation that was prompted by Tom's
questions regarding Tibetan.
I'll attempt to steer the conversation away from Tibetan towards a more
generic technical issue: processing ligatures (that's what Tom's
problems boil down to).
If we take the Tibetan syllable
On 1/21/24, Oliver Corff via wrote:
> Now the question which is not language-specific: In how far can groff
> access these font-internal lookup tables? It appears that the "naive"
> approach does not trigger the ligature mechanism in the font, as
> demonstrated by Tom's and Deri's examples.
>
> Is
