Re: [Freebangfont-devel] Pfaedit question

[Deepayan Sarkar]

On Tuesday 20 May 2003 11:08 am, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> On Mon, 19 May 2003 16:33:46 -0500
>
> Deepayan Sarkar <address@hidden> wrote:
> > You are not supposed to do that. The splitting of the okaar into the
> > ekaar and aakaar and reordering them as ekaar + ka + aakaar is supposed
> > to be done by the client software doing the rendering (which has nothing
> > to do with a font. Which is why you will see this done in gedit even if
> > you use a font without opentype features).
> >
> > As you can imagine, the reordering is quite complicated when conjuncts
> > and ZWJ/ZWNJ get involved (e.g., Yudit has a bug for words like 'jyoti').
> > Microsoft has a page which claims to explain this algorithm as they have
> > implemented it.
>
> Goody.
> Thanks about that.
> I was actually thinking of this as a way to circumvent the OOo split vowels
> bug. ..anyway, do you have the URL for this M$ chotha ??

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otfntdev/bengalot/shaping.htm