[XeTeX] Contextual Ligature Problems with OT Tamil Font Converted to AAT

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jun 19, 2011, at 7:55 AM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:

> 
> 
> Herbert Schulz wrote:
> 
>>> Peter Dyballa wrote:
>>> 
>>>> You could specify the renderer engine! Fontspec allows
>>>> 
>>>> \fontspec[Renderer=AAT]{font}
>>> 
>>> Is this meaningfully true for all platforms ?  One of the
>>> few downsides to XeTeX is that sometimes a feature is
>>> platform-dependent yet the documentation and/or correspondence
>>> never mentions this fact.
>>> 
>>> Philip Taylor
>>> 
>> 
>> Howdy,
>> 
>> And, of course, the availability of a give font is individual machine and possibly even user dependent.
> 
> Yes, but I really meant "Renderer=AAT" rather than "{font}" !
> ** Phil.
> 

Howdy,

Understood, but it appears that font is meant to be used on a Mac (do other platforms support AAT?) so that's the same thing in this case and using that option will work on any Mac system that has that font.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)