Re: GNOME font library RFC

[Nathan Hurst <njh hawthorn csse monash edu au>]

On Sat, 27 May 2000, Alan Shutko wrote:

> 
> Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > The more sophisticated way of doing this is to include tables of information
> > that allow the rendering system to pick the ligatures. OpenType is
> > a well-developed example of doing this.
> 
> I wonder if the TeX stuff would be of any help here?  It's
> well-documented, at least, and it would be really cool if we could
> plug TeX into a font system as has been done on other platforms.

I read through the TeX sources, TeX's font handling is fairly poor.  It
certainly wont scale to multibyte languages well.  The TeX for japanese
could at best be described as a klueful kludge.

njh