Re: Rendering of Svg Font

On Monday, November 6, 2006, 11:02:01 PM, Paul wrote:

PNA> There needs to be a higher level protocol to shape and position glyphs

Yes

PNA> before things are sent to SVG.

No. You don't "send glyphs" to SVG. You send characters to SVG. As you
correctly note, shaping and positioning takes place at the glyph level.

PNA>  Complex script languages cannot be
PNA> handled by simply sending Unicode strings of characters.

Now, if you had said "simply sending lists of glyphs" that would be correct.


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 Chris Lilley                    mailto:chris@w3.org
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