Re: Complex Fonts for Windows NT Series

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 05:24:32 -0800 (PST), Andrew Cunningham
<andj_c@...> wrote:

> 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

Must-study article... :)

I see that Uniscribe (at least, later versions) does handle Indic scripts.

> 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.

This info. is much appreciated!

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