[XeTeX] openType and xetex

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Thu Jun 28 11:38:13 CEST 2012


2012/6/28 Youcef Mohammed <moyoumos at gmail.com>:
> i think AAT only works on Mac OS X... and ICU is multi platform...
>
I am not sure whether AAT is compiled in non-Mac binaries.

> 2012/6/28, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>:
>> 2012/6/28 Youcef Mohammed <moyoumos at gmail.com>:
>>> (...)fast quik rapid
>>> Windows is not Apple!!!
>>
>> The rendering engine in XeTeX has nothing to do with your operating
>> system. The rendering library is compiled in XeTeX. PDF readers do not
>> contain such engines, all substitutions were done during PDF creation.
>> It does not matter that most Windows applications use Uniscribe and
>> most Linux applications use Pango. XeTeX relies on its compiled-in
>> libraries, not on OS services for rendering.
>>
>>> The font in question is not Graphite font...!!!
>>> (serious)
>>> -it seem that the problem is with the "mkmk" (mark-to-mark)
>>> positionning...
>>>
>>>
>>> 2012/6/28, Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa at gmail.com>:
>>>> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Youcef Mohammed <moyoumos at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 1-what does ICU in xetex?
>>>>
>>>> OpenType rendering.
>>>>
>>>>> 2-and wich code in xetex deal with the ICU layout engine?
>>>>
>>>> Uh, the rendering code?
>>>>
>>>>> 3-is it possible to use another layout engine?
>>>>
>>>> Sure. Read the manual. :-) Graphite and Apple.
>>>>
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