2012/8/1 <msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca>: > On Wed, 1 Aug 2012, Ulrike Fischer wrote: >> Perhaps (the discussion is rather long). But you obviously don't >> accept my conclusion that one possible solution is to reduce the >> complexity of the script. You are only looking for the people who >> should write all this complex code. > > Language is inherently political, and telling people to change their > language to suit the computer is really asking for trouble. > > However, something that might fly better and addresses similar issues > would be to say: requiring the typesetting system to build in per-script > support is a losing game because it requires the builders of the > typesetting system (who will be experts on computing, not on ALL the > scripts of the world) to learn ALL the scripts of the world. It's also a > political problem because some scripts, or some forms of some scripts, > inevitably won't make the list of "all" scripts and will be > disenfranchised as a result. So: this per-script knowledge should be > moved from the typesetting system to the font, and then it becomes the > responsibility of the font designers who more reasonably can be expected > to be experts on their own scripts, and then nobody needs to be an expert > on ALL scripts, and unforeseen scripts can be easily added just by > creating new fonts. > > That is the line of thinking that would favour Graphite (a general system > for defining complex scripts inside fonts) over OpenType (which requires > each script to be defined in the typesetting system, outside of the font), > and it should be acceptable both to people who want the technology to be > easy to build and to people who want the output to look right. > That's right but we still have a lot of non-Graphite fonts. > -- > Matthew Skala > msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca People before principles. > http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/ > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
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