[HarfBuzz] Fwd: Re: Support for Khojki in HarfBuzz

[Jonathan Kew]

On 19/3/13 07:51, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> Resending to HarfBuzz list, in case someone wants to give this a try.
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Support for Khojki in HarfBuzz
> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:16:31 -0700
> From: Anshuman Pandey <pandey at umich.edu>
> To: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org>
>
> Hi Behdad,
>
> Attached is a basic OT font for Khojki. I'm not a font developer, so I
> did my best to produce a valid OT font using FontForge. I used both
> 'rlig' and 'akhn' in the font. I've also attached a plain text file
> containing Khojki text and a PDF of that text file showing the
> expected output. I hope this will give you enough to start
> implementing Khojki in Harfbuzz.
>

If no reordering is needed (you mentioned that the short-i matra does 
not reorder; is there a reph?), then I think it would be best to target 
the generic shaper, and to use 'rlig' (and not 'akhn', which won't be 
applied by default) for all the ligated forms you need.

JK