Re: [Devel] vertical substitution

[Steve Hartwell]

> On Jan 12, 2004, at 9:27 PM, David Vincent wrote:
> > My reading of the FT documentation, FAQ and mailing lists leads me
> > to think that FT developers would favour (1) rather than (2).  FAQ
> > question I.3 says "operations like glyph substitution ... are not
> > part of a font service".
> >
> > Is this a fair assessment?

On Jan 12, 2004, at 11:46 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> Yes, it is.

I agree, although I'd be interested to learn more about the status of 
the collaboration of the freetype/pango/ICU projects for glyph layout.  
It may not be well known that ICU's layout code also supports Apple's 
'mort' table (I don't know if it's been adapted to the resized 
structures in the 'morx' table).

I haven't used ICU for AAT table processing myself, only for OpenType 
layout, but I imagine that integrating the code for the AAT tables 
would be just as straightforward.

Steve Hartwell
http://stevehartwell.home.comcast.net/proj/fontinspector