On Sep 21, 2015 8:56 PM, "Gregory Pittman" <<a href="mailto:gpittman@iglou.com">gpittman@iglou.com</a>> wrote: > > On 09/21/2015 12:05 PM, peter sikking wrote: > > Dave wrote: > > > >>> right on: I was already thinking that a set of recommendations > >>> (only based on what is hard-as-nails in the otf standard) must > >>> be part of the deliverable. > >> > >> Hmm. Maybe out of scope. But... There are a heap of conversions that a smart rich text editor is likely to do, eg change quote " to curly quotes, minus - to en/em dash, 3 periods ... to ellipsis, etc etc, which depend on the encoded glyphs being present in the font. > >> > >> This relates to OT because, like OT, different languages have different typographic conventions, which OT can respond to also, so " may become《 instead, if the script/lang is Latin/French. > >> > >> There are also some case responsive OT features which manual letter-spacing could collide with, being designed by the font developer for default letter spacing. > > > > I realise this gets tricky, fast. it would be only about > > switching otf, not subbing char codes. > > > > if any of these guidelines are not clear-cut, then it is better to > > leave it out. they do address however the “without the need to > > obtain openType/typographical domain knowledge” part for developers. > > > > Scribus has not been one of the smart text editors, but there are > scripting methods, such as a couple I wrote, Autoquote.py and > en+emdash.py, which make these conversions. > > I expect there will need to be some expansion of the font detection area > looking for special OTF features, and perhaps even allow scripts to be > aware of these things. Yep those scripts are perfect for advancing with harfbuzz methods if they are available to scribuses scripting environment > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > CREATE mailing list > <a href="mailto:CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org">CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create</a>