On Apr 15, 2005, at 7:42 PM, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

>
> 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.
>

The typographic capacities of QuickDraw GX are currently at the heart
of all text rendering on Mac OS X. Ligatures, contextual forms,
rearrangement -- all can happen almost anywhere text is drawn.

WorldScript I and II were maintained through Mac OS 9. They are not
required on Mac OS X since more advanced text rendering systems are
available, which Apple hopes all developers will use in the place of
QuickDraw.

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