I didnot say it's Nastaleeq-specific, or exclusive to Nastaleeq. But Nastaleeq is possibly the most relevant script variant that heavily relies on cursive attachment in OpenType.
Sent from my mobile phone. On 02.08.2012, at 10:53, Khaled Hosny <khaledho...@eglug.org> wrote: > But that is not Nastaliq specific (Arabic Typesetting uses cursive > attachments extensively too, my Naskh font uses them occasionally as > well). So, any sufficiently complex font will have issues with such > engines, Nastaliq or not. > > Regards, > Khaled > > On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 04:40:55AM +0200, Adam Twardoch (List) wrote: >> 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 -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
