[XeTeX] Does it make any sense to specify layout engine in fontname?

[Jonathan Kew]

On 13 May 2007, at 10:03 am, Peter Dyballa wrote:

>
> Am 13.05.2007 um 09:48 schrieb Will Robertson:
>
>> I'll add the necessary support in fontspec at some stage;

It should require very little work; the interface within XeTeX is  
essentially the same as for AAT fonts. There's a similar feature/ 
setting mechanism, etc.

The main difference is that there's no attempt at a registry of  
standard features, so the only useful way to access them is via "raw"  
names as defined by the font itself, as I understand it.

>> are there
>> any fonts that take advantage of Graphite or even require Graphite
>> for what they do?
>
> After updating XeTeX from SVN you'll find in the libs/graphite-engine/
> test branches some working test fonts (in RegressionTest) and some
> erroneous TT fonts (in fonterrors). libs/graphite-engine/doc contains
> some RTF documents.

And there are some Graphite fonts, including some for "interesting"  
scripts, on the Graphite Fonts page on scripts.sil.org.

JK