Re: Fwd: Re: Transcoding Tamil in the presence of markup

From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Sun Dec 07 2003 - 08:45:39 EST

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    On 12/07/03 07:25, Peter Jacobi wrote:

    >>[..] Display engines
    >>need to do a better job of applying style to individual reordrant
    >>glyphs, that's all.
    >>
    >>
    >
    >I fully agree with this, Do you know any display engine which is capable
    >of this?
    >
    I also agree, but I point out that the sufficiently perverse could come
    up with some pretty tough examples. Applying color is a pretty benign
    style, but what if I wanted a boldface circumflex on a normal letter?
    Or even more obnoxious, a 10-point circumflex on a an 8-point letter?
    These could be tricky to compute.

    Of course, "Garbage In, Garbage Out" is probably a good answer to this:
    if you ask the system to do bizarre things, it's your own fault (while
    applying color is not quite so bizarre).

    ~mark



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