- From: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 10:00:38 -0700
- CC: www-style@w3.org
On 29/05/13 3:01 AM, Andrew Cunningham wrote: > An obvious use for opentype features would be a font supporting both > Hindi and Sanskrit and with extensive ligature support. Yes, this is the sort of thing for which the OpenType language system tags are intended: enabling different layout feature results for different language system preferences. So, for example, the Hindi layout features might favour more horizontal ligature forms, while the Sanskrit might favour more traditional vertical forms. The CSS language-override mechanism, allowing one to access specific OpenType language system tagging independent of document language tagging may be the technology that makes this kind of layout differentiation reliable. At present, support for OT language system tags in software is too uneven for us to make such fonts, and in order for our customers not to encounter unwelcome surprises we make separate Hindi and Sanskrit fonts. JH
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