2012/8/1 Ulrike Fischer <ne...@nililand.de>: > Am Wed, 1 Aug 2012 15:54:37 +0200 schrieb Zdenek Wagner: > >> LuaTeX can be considered a flavour of TeX thus if XeTeX can load a >> font and use the glyphs as they are now and compose them to form a >> word, I do not understand why a change in the script is needed. LuaTeX >> is not able to form a word from Devanagari glyphs. MS Office, >> OpenOffice, modern web browser can do it, so why should we discard the >> very basics of Indic orthography a create the new one just because >> nobody has implemented the Indic scripts in lua so far? And discard >> all Indic fonts and create new ones that will suit the new >> orthography? > > I didn't say that "a change is needed", only that the complexity of > some scripts are part of the problem: complex scripts means complex > code and people who write, test, maintain, extend this code. And > such people are not always available like now in the case of luatex. > That's exactly what I wrote (in slightly different words) at the very beginning of the discussion. > > > -- > Ulrike Fischer > http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/ > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
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