Hi,

--- Andrew Dunbar <hippietrail@...> wrote:

>
> Linux does have something like Uniscribe. It's
> called
> Pango and it lives at http://www.pango.org/

For information on Uniscribe and OpenType, there is
John Hudson's article on "Windows glyph processing".
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/Glyph%20Processing/intro.mspx

Additionally, there is the Khmer specific opentype
development notes at
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/OpenType%20Dev/khmer/intro.mspx

Alternatively, there is the OpenSource font rendering
system "graphite" which was developed by SIL. There
are some applications on both Windows and Linux. It
uses smart fonts, where the language/script specific
information is included in the font, rather than in
the rendering system.

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=CatGraphite
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&cat_id=RenderingTechnologies
http://sila.mozdev.org/
http://silgraphite.sourceforge.net/

There have been some interesting experiments adding
Graphite rendering support to Pango. Also on the linux
platform, some alpha release of Graphite enabled
Mozilla and OpenOffice.

There is also a beta of a Graphite enabled Khmer font.
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=GraphiteFonts

Additionally, its posisble to have both graphite and
opentype tables in the same font.

Andrew





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