1. Re: BigFonts and URDU/SINDI
- Posted by Norm Goundry <bonk1000 at HOTMAIL.COM> Jun 24, 1999
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In reply to Bruce M. Axtens interesting and welcome inquiry about problems in writing the shape-shifting character outputs of URDU and SINDI (and Arabic and Hebrew, as far as that goes). Yes, what you say is true, but this [alteration of the shape and positioning of the character] also goes for Mayan Picto-Glyphs as well. I am not being flippant here, it is a very difficult area to program in. But the BigFont format is certainly a place to start, because of its ability to handle both large graphies ('characters') and very large sets. This is were you will start. As for the characters themselves, I would suggest that a non-fixed format be the way to go for URDU and so forth. And that a context and position sensitive engine be designed that follows the particular language's grammer rules. And it would possibly help if this is applied to a Vector style output format, rather than fixed type characters such as we are using in the Chinese. All of this I find quite interesting. Please explain more about the characteristics of the language so that Thought can perhaps more easily gel into Action. Regards, Norm