Re: TECH: Fonts (was Re: Various)

Boudewijn writes:
>>>>>>
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Paul Bennett wrote:

> You could probably get by with just ScanFont, if you weren't fussy
> and your script didn't use "clever" diacritics.
You can make non-spacing characters with Scanfont quite
easily, by simply moving the glyph before the 'origin'.
Really clever accents (changing form in ligatures f.i.)
can't easily be done - but I think that that's a limitation
of the TrueType font format.
<<<<<<

Yes.  I've already done some minor playing with non-spacing chars, trying to
break up a Ugaritic font into individual stylus marks, and it seems relatively
straightforward.

What I had in mind with "clever" diacritics was the short-i diacritic in
Devenagari (and possibly the kombuva(?) in Sinhala, tho I need to double-check
that one), as well as similar "left" and "surrounding" characters in Asian
scripts.  Can ScanFont handle these?  I assume FontLab can?  I haven't delved
into the deep features of either, after an initial "plunge" and some tinkering
as above.  I _will_ get going on some Unicode fonts real soon (honest, folks),
just as soon as I get a free weekend or ten...

btw, Boudewijn, did you ever get to the other Unicode site I pointed you at?
http://charts.unicode.org/
What's your opinion, usability-wise?



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