Nicholas Bodley wrote:

>
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 01:26:15 -0400, suzmccarth <suzmccarth@...>
> quoted:
>
> > Trivedi writes, "The new technological developments in typesetting have
> > finally removed all constraints which inhibited the development of
> > Devanagari script."
>
> I think it's worth noting than computers have, more than likely, been a
> real boon to typesetting Arabic script. Scientific American, roughly a
> decade ago, had a very fine article about modern typesetting of Arabic.

Nothing practical, though. And Mac somehow lost WorldScript I (the
R-to-L scripts) on the way to OS X. (It was in 7; not available in 9.)

For a month or so there was a really fancy system (called GX, maybe?)
that understood a very great deal about contextual variations -- Lloyd
Anderson demonstrated it once -- but nothing came of it.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...