From: busmanus (busmanus.lk@freemail.hu)
Date: Thu Jul 01 2004 - 19:37:43 CDT
Peter Kirk wrote:
> On 30/06/2004 11:18, busmanus wrote:
>
>> Peter Kirk wrote:
>>
>>> If you prefer to use precomposed characters
>>
>> I need to use them at the moment, because my word
>> processor does not support the trickier aspects
>> of rendering combined glyphs (e.g. making use of
>> the "corner points", etc.). I can't even make it
>> use a precomposed ligature for a letter+combining
>> diacritical combination. Can you recommend anything
>> more advanced in this respect (if it doesn't qualify
>> as an ad)?
>>
> I see from your message source that you are using
> Windows 98.
Actually the machine I use for typing Classical Greek has
Linux (Red Hat 9) running with the version of Open Office
shipped on the install CD-s.
> But your system will not do a good job of rendering decomposed
> characters. It will neither combine them programmatically nor replace
> them with precomposed character glyphs.
This is exactly my problem. But it's nice to hear that Office 2003
at least finally caught up with this issue. This may be the right
motive for open source tools to follow the example.
Does anyone know of a present Linux program that can cope with
such a task? (I understand that Open Type/True Type fonts
themselves already have the required functionality, even if
it isn't used by all font designers.)
Regards,
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