Re: [Devel] OpenType futures

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Could you estimate the size of the unified library of
> table-validation + table-parsing + glyph-lookup?
> 
> There are several font/printing softwares which does
> not require whole of features of OpenType and TrueTypeGX
> and using just partial infos provided by the table.
> 
> For example, in the scope of CJK text processing,
> glyph substitution of vertical writing mode is especially
> important, and there is several legacy methods are still
> widely used (by using vendor specific char-glyph mapping).
> The softwares have to check which vertical writing mode
> support is available from the font for first. For such
> purpose, full featured OpenType parser looks like overkill.

I believe that for such special demands it is easiest to write a new
ad-hoc parser which only handles vertical glyph substitution.


    Werner