On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 01:16:46PM -0400, Peter Baker wrote: > On 4/26/10 12:44 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > > >That is one reason I personally think combining marks + ccmp are better > >than pre-composed glyphs, the less glyph work the easier to sync fonts. > >Sure it means a bit extra OpenType work, but this can easily be shared > >between faces. > > > >Regards, > > Khaled > > > Completely agree. But I get anguished notes from users of MS Word > and OpenOffice, and Mac apps (where anchor positioning doesn't work, > though other OpenType support is good) asking for precomposed > characters. The mainstream apps, unfortunately, don't support > OpenType well, and until that happens, and end-users figure out how > to use those features, pre-composed characters will be necessary.
Right, I didn't think about this (I gave up on using office crap long ago; it have too much discrepancies for me to cope with), but may be with some python hackary one can build pre-composed glyphs at font generation time. FF has functions just for this and will use anchor points, if present, for proper composition. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
