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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/07/2013 02:26 AM, Rajeesh K
Nambiar wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 1:28 AM,
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Was there in fact a 'mlym' spec ever? IIRC Malayalam was
added when<br>
the new specs were designed.<br>
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<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>
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<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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Bug for this @ <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873635">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873635</a><br>
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Yes that is pain. OT tables are sequential if we change one sequence
need to update same to following lookup. Meera and Rachana has good
numbers of ligature available using already defined sequence.<br>
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I fixed quickly harfbuzz bugs for Lohit since now it make me sure
that it works well on Windows as well (some exceptions might be
there). Since Meera and Rachana are also used as a Web fonts at some
places IMO this fix is unavoidable.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Pravin Satpute<br>
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