Unicode - AAT vs OT fonts in Revolution

[Sivakatirswami]

Aloha, Richmond:

It's getting pretty muggy here on Kauai to... classic Kauai weather, a 
short rain 2-3 times a day with Average 80 Degree temps, but mid-day is 
climbing to 100 in the open fields, mosquitoes are loving it. Average 
density -- 12 little kamakazi's per cubic foot of atmosphere. August 
will be cooking...

I see your machinations: I'm not sure I want to "go there" with the old 
special conjuncts. I think it is possible to get every letter in the 
devanagiri alphabet from the standard 0900–097F, if are willing to stick 
to late forms. Or, (I hope not!) are there actual important conjuncts 
that are in fact not available in 0900–097F ?

I was forced to order a plug in for Indesign to find a way to enter the 
udatta and anudatta stress marks, which are, strangely, not available on 
the current standard Devangari keyboards and thus impossible to enter in 
any environment except inDesign.

These two marks are "mission critical" but Metadesignsolutions IndicPlus 
plug in saved the day and least inside Indesign. But as mentioned, not 
available in any other environment. That's a show stopper... Someone 
else on our team threw in the towel and went back to a T1 font for his 
work...well-designed, all chars available with a sensible, complete 
keyboard.

I was not able to pursue this further since our last discussion and my 
next publishing project that might be repurposed to a Rev environment, 
will focus on Tamil...

I'm not fluent in building a keyboard... I see some old keyboards in 
/Library/Keyboard Layouts/ but not everything one has access to in the 
international Input Menu appears there... and I don't see them in the 
sys library either... the ones I do see look simple enough XML...

Good, luck and keep me posted. And I thought Unicode was going to make 
life easier (smile)





Richmond Mathewson wrote:
> Did you think I had forgotten?
>
> Several nights in 40 degrees C, tossing and turning, later . . .
>
> Bloody silly really (but then, in my case it usually is; either trying 
> to be too clever for my own good,
> or not seeing something right under my nose):
>
> Take a look at this:
>
> http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/private_use_area.html
>
> a private use area in the Basic Multilingual Plane, i.e. at unicode 
> numbers less than 65535.
>
> So, cracked open my Devanagari font (provisionally called 'Mahesvara') 
> and shifted all the
> conjunct consonants from "beyond the pale" to this area:
>
> running between 57344 (hex E000) and 63742 (hex F8FE).
>
> Standard (i.e. basic) letter forms are lodged "where they should be" 
> between:
>
> 2309 (hex 0905) and 2416 (hex 0970)
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
>
> Now; a further 'sweaty night' awaits me (it, Sivakatirswami, may well 
> be the Brahma-Mahurta
> in Hawaii, but over here it is some horrible time of the night at a 
> horrible time of the year) as
> I try to "cook up" a Sanskrit typewriter type implementation method in 
> Revolution.
>
> Don't hold your breath as it may take longer than the RR 4.0 Beta :)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>
>
> Anybody who feels the urge to have their own, private "night of 
> passion" / "dark night
> of the soul" wrestling with homemade unicode fonts is more than 
> welcome to help
> themselves to my font at:
>
> http://box17.110mb.com/FILEZ/MH.zip
>
> if anybody can come up with a way of using it before I can that would 
> be really super. :)
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