Received: from webgate.proteosys.de (mail.proteosys-ag.com [62.225.9.49]) by lucy.proteosys (8.11.0/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id f1IF0Af14997 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 16:00:10 +0100 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f1IF02d23467 . for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 16:00:10 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailserver1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.30]) by mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1IF01H25349 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 16:00:01 +0100 (MET) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C099BB.7CE9B900" Received: from mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.57]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA06430 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 16:00:00 +0100 (MET) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (mail.listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.5]) by mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1IF00Q07214 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 16:00:00 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.5) by mail.listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <11.4A712522@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 15:59:51 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 489465 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 15:59:55 +0100 Received: from ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (mail.urz.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.234]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA03293 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 15:59:53 +0100 (MET) Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA54766 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 15:59:53 +0100 Received: from Sina.sharif.ac.ir (sina.Sharif.AC.IR [194.225.40.9]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1IExnx16016 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 15:59:50 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (roozbeh@localhost) by Sina.sharif.ac.ir (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA26920 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 18:29:38 +0330 In-Reply-To: <3A8ED366.39543EFC@ujf-grenoble.fr> Return-Path: X-Sender: roozbeh@Sina.sharif.ac.ir x-mime-autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de id PAA03295 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: Multilingual Encodings Summary Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 15:59:38 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Roozbeh Pournader" Sender: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" To: "Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L" Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3970 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C099BB.7CE9B900 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Thierry Bouche wrote: > Werner LEMBERG a =E9crit : > > > > > > - The output encoding is limited to 8 bit fonts, which may not = be > > > > enough to get correct kerning for some languages. (Can someone > > > > confirm or correct this???) > > > > > > We need some examples. I can't find any. > > a full swash italic font with automatic ligaturing for uppercases > (including accented ones), plus maybe automatic ligaturing of some = extra > pairs than the standard ones, and maybe also automatic selection of = long > s/short s or other special ending charachters. I received TUGboat 2000:2 yesterday, and read about such things in the rich fonts article there. But it is really weird to me that when I was making that comment, I was ignorant of the situation with Arabic (language, and not the script) typography, where huge amount of = ligatures are normal. --roozbeh ------_=_NextPart_001_01C099BB.7CE9B900 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: Multilingual Encodings Summary

On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Thierry Bouche wrote:

> Werner LEMBERG a =E9crit :
> >
> > > > - The output encoding is limited = to 8 bit fonts, which may not be
> > > >   enough to get correct = kerning for some languages. (Can someone
> > > >   confirm or correct = this???)
> > >
> > > We need some examples. I can't find = any.
>
> a full swash italic font with automatic = ligaturing for uppercases
> (including accented ones), plus maybe automatic = ligaturing of some extra
> pairs than the standard ones, and maybe also = automatic selection of long
> s/short s or other special ending = charachters.

I received TUGboat 2000:2 yesterday, and read about = such things in the
rich fonts article there. But it is really weird to = me that when I was
making that comment, I was ignorant of the situation = with Arabic
(language, and not the script) typography, where huge = amount of ligatures
are normal.

--roozbeh

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