From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Thu Jun 16 2005 - 21:43:28 CDT
John Hudson wrote:
> Mark Davis wrote:
>
>> It is always possible to replace a ligature by a sequence of shapes
>> which,
>> when put together, form the ligature shape.
>
>
> Yes, although I can think of some traditional Greek ligatures that
> would be hard to break into shape sequences that obviously correspond
> to the underlying characters. Knowing which parts of a Latin fi
> ligature correspond to which underlying characters, and hence which
> might be rendered as separate and independently coloured shaped, is
> not difficult. Something like the attached graphic is trickier.
>
What about Devanagari K-SHA? I can't disassemble that at all. Nor
J-NYA. It's still true that there exists a sequence of shapes which
forms the ligature shape: that's true for any shape larger than one
pixel (and even one-pixel shapes, if we allow one-member sequences or
empty shapes). I think we simply cannot ever count on a computer being
able mechanically to pick out which part of a ligature belongs to what
element.
~mark
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