Jim> I know no Malayalam. If the font has two different glyphs for a
Jim> combination of two (or more) consonants, and the data preceding (or
Jim> following?) them provide a cue to which was prefererable in that
Jim> context rendering software could use the cue to select the more
Jim> desirable glyph. Economically, how much more would people pay for
Jim> better looking output? Vs.Aesthetically, why not do it right the
Jim> first time? I guess the first question is would the data contain such
Jim> cues or clues?
That would be ideal, but collecting those sorts of contextual clues takes a
while.
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Mark Leisher
Computing Research Lab I have never made but one prayer to God,
New Mexico State University a very short one:
Box 30001, Dept. 3CRL "Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous."
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