[XeTeX] XeLaTex and Armenian

[Khaled Hosny]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 02:10:52PM -0700, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
> > Each OpenType feature has to be bound to a specific  set of scripts/languages,
> > this has nothing to do with the  "Script/language  sensitivity" hint in the
> > pages you are pointing  to.
>  
> No it has! One can bind more than one language/script to a particular
> feature and kern and liga are exactly such features. For example, here
> are the binding for the font you are mentioning:
> 
> liga: DFLT{dflt} cyrl{dflt} grek{dflt} latn{AZE ,CRT ,DEU ,MOL ,ROM ,TRK ,dflt}
> 
> kern: DFLT{dflt} cyrl{dflt} grek{dflt} latn{AZE ,CRT ,DEU ,MOL ,ROM ,TRK ,dflt}
> 
> But a quick search reveals that no feature is defined for  hebr{dflt}. 
> Nevertheless, if 
> 
> the author of this font had defined
> 
> liga: DFLT{dflt} latn{dflt,AZE ,CRT ,DEU ,MOL ,ROM ,TRK } grek{dflt} cyrl{dflt} 
> hebr{dflt}
> 
> then obviously your examples would produce identical output. In different words,
> if a font includes glyphs for the Armenian script and the Latin script and the
> kern and liga features are defined for both scripts, then there is no reason to
> use different fonts. 

Good luck finding such font :)

-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer