Re: [wEr\ Ar\ ju: fr6m] ?

> Date:         Sat, 10 Nov 2001 21:46:47 -0500
> From: Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
>
> On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 21:24:26 -0000, Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
> wrote:
>
> >And might be easier to convince Herman than MS to put in extra
> >ligatures and such.
>
> It would be, if I had software that could add ligatures to fonts. Is any
> available at a reasonable price? I've messed around with that Microsoft
> Volt thing, but I could never get anything useful out of it.
I don't know --- last time I mucked around with ligatures was when I
played with METAFONT. I don't even know what support TrueType has for
ligatures...

I've found out that the Yudit editor (for Linux and BSD) will let me
specify an input method so that I can type X-SAMPA at it, and see the
IPA on screen... and it's got a stand-alone tool that will use the
same spec to convert between X-SAMPA in ASCII and IPA in Unicode. So
that's the way forward, I think.

But there's a bug in Yudit's placement of combining diacritics, so I'm
going to hack on that first. And it doesn't do 'shaping' yet, which I
guess is selection of alternate glyphs in Arabic, conjuncts in Indic
--- and ligatures in roman-based scripts like IPA.

On the other hand, Word 2000 doesn't seem to do it right either --- or
perhaps that's because I'm trying to run it on Windows 98.

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)

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