2012/8/2 Keith J. Schultz <keithjschu...@web.de>: > Hi Again, > > I am now trying to grock LuaTeX otfload, that is ContTexts font loading > system. > >From what I have understood so far in order get things started is a > >GDEF-feature > and GPOS Lookup support in the font.loader and font-otf.lua. > > Do you know off hand, if these features are already implemented in Contexts > or just not available in LuaTeX? > > Sorry, to everybody else I will this is getting OT(this is a XeTeX-List) and > I will take this off list, > if Arthur does not mind. > It would be better to ask in the ConTeXt list, you certainly find experts there. I am not sure whether LuaTeX/ConTeXt experts read this list. As my Hindi example shows, the basic GSUB and GPOS tables are most probably honoured for each script but I do not know the details.
> reagrds > Keith. > > Am 02.08.2012 um 04:40 schrieb Adam Twardoch (List) <list.a...@twardoch.com>: > >> Nastaliq OpenType fonts typically use the GPOS LookupType 3 (cursive >> attachment), which is not supported by some of the more simple-minded >> OpenType Layout engines. >> >> A. >> >> Sent from my mobile phone. >> >> On 02.08.2012, at 04:28, Mike Maxwell <maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu> wrote: >> >>> On 8/1/2012 6:48 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: >>>> I remember specifically testing some Nastaliq fonts and Hans fixing some >>>> small issues I found, I just tested again now and IranNastaliq seems to >>>> work (my fork of Nafees Nastaleeq is broken though, but it uses an >>>> OpenType GDEF feature not supported by LuaTeX's font loader, so this is >>>> expected and not even Arabic specific). >>> >>> I'm interested in this. We have used Nafees Nastaleeq v1.2 (IIRC), and >>> plan to use it for Punjabi written in Shahmukhi. While this font works >>> reasonably well in XeTeX, there were a couple things we were bothered by. >>> But it's been awhile since we last used it, and we're not experts in this >>> style of Arabic script, so I can't remember the problems, nor would I be >>> confident enough to say much about them anyway. >>> >>> Have you written up your work on Nastaliq? >>> -- >>> Mike Maxwell >>> maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu >>> "My definition of an interesting universe is >>> one that has the capacity to study itself." >>> --Stephen Eastmond >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------- >>> Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: >>> http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: >> http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
