<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 1:28 AM, Behdad Esfahbod <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:behdad@behdad.org" target="_blank">behdad@behdad.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Right. Was there in fact a 'mlym' spec ever? IIRC Malayalam was added when<br>
the new specs were designed.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I *think*, and correct me if I'm wrong, the pre-win7 spec was 'mlym' and the win-7 spec introduced 'mlm2'. I can't seem to find the supporting documentation in microsoft opentype site though.<br>
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At any rate, you need to add a 'pref' table to the font that matches the<br>
sequence 'Ra,Halant' (for 'mlym') or 'Halant,Ra' (for 'mlm2'). You add that<br>
and the font works. We are not going to work around this.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The problem is, there is already a 'pstf' table for 'Ra, Halant' (for mlym) defined in Rachana and Meera, which is present for years and I know not why (I thought only 'Halant+Ra' should make the 'Ra sign'). We tried adding 'pref' table also for the same sequence during the Pune language summit, but then found that the 'Ra' rendering goes haywire with complex conjuncts and to fix that a lot of combinations to be added in the font. :-/<br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Cheers,<br>Rajeesh<br><br><br>
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