On Wed, 1 Aug 2012, Zdenek Wagner wrote: > > That is the line of thinking that would favour Graphite (a general system > > for defining complex scripts inside fonts) over OpenType (which requires
> That's right but we still have a lot of non-Graphite fonts. We also don't have much enthusiasm, as far as I can see, for emphasizing Graphite to the *exclusion* of other systems, in particular OpenType, as the preferred way for TeX engines to solve this issue. And that's what it would take. I think we're back to the question raised earlier: are we trying to build a really new thing, accepting the cost of throwing out and reinventing technology that already exists and works; or are we trying to build a thing that works with existing technology, accepting the cost that some of that existing technology isn't ideal? -- 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
