[Freebangfont-devel] RE: [Bengalinux-core] Conjunct encoding/representation?

[Ahmed, Taneem]

Shaheed,

You woke up at the right time, we started talking about having standardized
OT layout tables for Bangla fonts just last week. But that discussion is
going on at address@hidden (FYI: FreeBanglaFont
(http://www.nongnu.org/freebangfont) is the "font wing" of bengalinux.org).
I proposed a flow to ease the pain of creating OpenType fonts, but
Sayamindu, Deepayan, and Ripon brought up few good points (if you have time
please read the thread
http://mail.nongnu.org/archive/html/freebangfont-devel/2003-01/msg00007.html
). Well I was dreaming of having a very simply flow, and now I realize it
won't be that simple, especially because of the GPOS tables. But I am sure
we will come up with something.

btw, lets move the discussion to where it belong :)

Taneem

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Shaheed R. Haque [mailto:address@hidden
>Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 2:46 PM
>To: address@hidden; Sayamindu Dasgupta
>Cc: address@hidden
>Subject: Re: [Bengalinux-core] Conjunct encoding/representation?
>
>
>
>Sayamindu,
>
>Hi...I think you have given me at least half the answer...
>
>> Actually, as far as I understand, the usage of the private area is
>> immaterial. The glyphs there are never called directly. The 
>position is
>> defined in the OTF tables, and that handles all the hard stuff. For
>> example, if you have a glyph cluster of Ka Hasanta Ka, the 
>tables will
>> substitute that cluster with a single glyph for Kae-Ka.
>
>OK, it sounds like these OTF tables include the logic I was 
>trying to describe. 
>So now, the remaining part of my question is: can these tables 
>be standardised? 
>I assume that if they could, then it would CONSIDERABLY reduce 
>the effort of 
>designing a font that included conjuncts?
>
>Or am I dreaming?
>
>
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